It’s a tax write off. For the landlord, it’s a matter of opportunity cost. Yea, he could take a hit, lower the rent and probably find a tenant to pay said lower rent. OR, he could raise the rent on the listing, knowing that nobody will take it for that price. Because he has no tenant, and the unit is actively listed on the market, he can write it off on his taxes, and recoup more than he’d get in revenue if he rented it for the actual market rate. And then there are city and state programs for landlords in distress due to the pandemic. These measures were intended to bail out mom & pop landlords who were stuck with their mortgage payments while tenants couldn’t afford to pay rent, but, obviously, the mom& pop landlords still got fucked, renters still owe back rent they can’t afford to pay, all while large and well-connected institutional investors are hoovering up price supports, grants and forgivable loans, buying out distressed assets from smaller mom&pops, and working to get tenants evicted. Issues like this are endemic in the ny residential market rn. People who do shit like this are the same exact people who pay their workers below-minimum wage, and when nobody takes it, they cry that it’s the governments fault for paying emergency unemployment..As if unemployment was a UBI, not an emergency stop gap for workers that were actually fired, who need to prove that they’re willing and able to work to continue to receive unemployment . Of course, they’re not usually bright enough to see the big macro picture. That expanded unemployment is the reason why their businesses have consumer demand in the first place, because they establish a floor for those whose industries were massively disrupted by the pandemic. Many of those jobs aren’t coming back, ever. Some will, but, surprise surprise, often times workers can’t afford to take them o they’d need child care that’ could cost more than their wages.
NYC has lost its soul. I was there in the 70s and 80s (I moved out in the early 90s). Yes, it was dirty, crime infested, and dangerous, but it was also so much more exciting, with cheap neighborhoods and lots of character. There was always something to do, and much of it was cheap or free. There were always fascinating things to see and all kinds of people walked the streets. Now it's like Disneyland and only the extremely wealthy can afford it. It seems more like a movie set now than a proper city. Post Covid, it seems dead and lifeless too. This is a city whose best days are behind it, I think.
@ luckyotter your 100% correct. I was born in Jamaica Queen's in 1983. By the time is was 7yrs old, Nyc had a modern record of 2,200 homicides in 1990; which no city in America even came close. It's quickly getting back to those days. I believe they are also fudging murder statistics to make the city seem less dangerous. The signs of decay are here and this time we can't blame crack cocaine as the engine that's fueling the murder rate. No matter how much we move forward in time, we seem to still stay the same as a society.
@@anantsharma7955 stop saying that. You’re basically telling the whole world that you’re either too dumb or too lazy to come up with a proper comeback and guess what, we suspect both to be true. So save everyone some time and some space in this comment section by keeping it shut or posting something constructive. There, life lesson in ONE comment, you’re welcome.
That landlord is desperate AF if he thinks he can rent those apts for $3,500. Why would anyone pay that amount when they can get a bigger, modernized apt for less? I don't care what neighborhood it is in. lol
This is the opposite of desperate. Seems rich AF....he doesn't need the money and doesn't care if it gets rented out. Or he's completely delusional and doesn't know what time it is. Perhaps he doesn't live in NYC or the US....just so out of touch.
We went in the Spring and the Fall of 2011. Central Park was glorious both times. We saw all the sites and 'Phantom of the Opera'. We had a blast! I would never go now!
It’s a little nice to see those wasteful, shameless, spend-happy politicians in NYC get their comeuppance. They’ve lived above their means for too long.
half the battle of eliminating crime is getting people into decent paying jobs and get rid of poverty...but from the looks of things the EXACT OPPOSITE is now happeneing.
Tremendous line: “These would make fantastic Christmas presents for someone that you hate.” By the way, that $3500 apartment is horrible. I wouldn’t want that for $1000.
I listen to New Yorkers talk about apt prices and I’m like bro I bought a house with a yard for like half the price in Connecticut which is like an hour and a half from the city wtf are you doing
NYC apartments are so poorly designed, unless they're very new. Look at those tiny heaters in one of the featured apartments. I doubt they can actually heat the place when it's -20F.
Nah bro. I’d say $2500-$2800 a month is about right. $1200 a month for a 2 bedroom in lower east side 14st in NYC? For that I’d also like to live in a beach front, 2 bedroom condo in Malibu for $1200 a month, Since we’re being “generous”.
@@smb123211 House/rent prices are a special case because you have to live somewhere so people cannot simply say no for a more balanced demand and supply effect. This unhealthy development already started depending where you live aorund in the 1980s and out of controll since 2010. Politics should have careful done something about it. It weakens the economy when all the money goes into housing and cannot be spend.
Me thinks so too! Once you hang your clothes in there and shove your luggage and shoe boxes at the bottom the only place you’re gonna stand is at the door! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Never rent from a greedy landlord. They will raise your rent every year and likely do the cheapest amount of maintenance on the apartment. I have lived in NYC for 20 years. You would be astounded by landlord greed.
What small business owner is not greedy to some extent? Everyone wants to make what they can. My friend became a landlord. Unfortunately he wasn't greedy. He was nice to the tenants and did all the repairs etc. Some tenants (who were already paying ridiculously below market rents under rent control) took advantage of him and stopped paying any rent. He couldn't evict them because and eviction proceeding required a building code inspection. The tenant would break the light fixture in front of the mailboxes (a violation) just before the inspector arrived. The case was dismissed. My friend owned the building for ten years then sold at a loss.
The word, "greed" has a bad rap except when you become a landlord, you would think twice because once you become a landlord, you have property taxes. What if you're a small landlord? The sad part of NY right now is that it isn't a landlord-friendly state. If you're a tenant and coming back to the city to rent, your salary or a couple's total salary should be at least 100K or above.
I hope this keeps happening, and that New York becomes a ghost town. Everyone simply became too greedy! I am so tired of hearing about old buildings and landlords asking for overrated appartments costing $3000 a month as if the average new yorker makes 120k a year!
@@dwaynedwayne1964 if you’ve ever lived there, you have to wonder if that’s such a bad thing. The materialism that dominates every day life there can be oppressive
@@gabriellew.4847 We missed you at the last meeting on how to destroy all big cities so we can wander like effing nomads. Grow a brain. No one's "planning" to "take down cities". Sounds like Onion headlines. Go Amazon. Jesus, what is wrong with people today?
For generations Landlords gave businessmen and women a difficult time. If you haven't dealt with one, they're probably one of the most difficult people to deal with. And in a good market, they're willing to destroy you at any cost. A local gym owner [after establishing her business for over five years] was forced to leave because they'd tripped her rent. I get it, this is ok as they have to ask what the market is willing to pay, but they have the littlest remorse for their actions and no empathy for the business owner. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY the table is now switched on them. By many businesses operating online. Screw them!
Idek why you need a commercial property in the city anyway, most of your business is by mail! Go to Texas bro. Wake up. You might have to convert to Christianity though, but wouldn't be the first Rossmann to do that for shekels I'm sure.
@@hashnotall6263 I lived in NYC back in the 90s very fun those days. It really felt like the capitol of the world. But I can understand people wanting to leave. With the current safety issues, rent, lock down
Red states are booming. People are moving there and living their best happy life. NYC is ruined like Chicago and LA to terrible policies led by lunatics.
@@zgirl1385 Yeah, Texas is doing "great". Increasing Property Taxes, High Crime Rate, Energy companies price gouging, crippling infrastructure. Yearly climate disasters. And the worst thing... Ted Cruz 🤮. Sounds like a dream.
@@devinmay3038 Better than NY or IL where I have lived the past 30 years. I looked at Texas taxes and they are way low in comparison. You also don't have personal state income tax which offsets property taxes. Your civil liberties are way more protected in Texas than in a communist state like NY. People I know are selling and moving to Tenn, Florida, the Carolinas and Texas. It might be bad in Texas but way worse in the blue bankrupt states
@@zgirl1385 Top 10 Homicide Rates 2021 Louisiana Missouri Nevada Maryland Arkansas Alaska Alabama Mississippi Illinois South Carolina Top 5 Poverty Rates 2021 Mississippi Louisiana New Mexico Kentucky Arkansas Top 5 Unemployment Rate 2021 Michigan Virginia Kansas New Hampshire Alabama Bottom 5 in Education 2021 New Mexico Alaska Louisiana Alabama Arizona Highest Teen Pregnancy Rates 2021 Arkansas Mississippi Louisiana Oklahoma Alabama Need I go on...?
@@devinmay3038 I get it you love NY and are happy to pay for the lifestyle. I have lived in many parts of the country and the world and I can tell you that you will never get ahead living in the north. As for your lists, funny no Florida, Texas, Tenn. or the Carolinas which are the states I specifically said were states growing massively in #'s. NY, IL and Cali are all losing seats after the last census and in 10 years the slaughter will be greater thanks to Biden and his merry band of idiots who are have been successful at one thing in the first 100 days and that is destroying the nation. So Devin, you enjoy NYC and all it has to offer which frankly is not the NYC I enjoyed that thriving and booming. Another observation is how can you have 2021 stats when the year is not even over?
I think NYC retail landlords were milking the cash cow of high rents for so many years they probably never saw it coming that the cow would dry up at some point. It's terrible to see the large brands leave the city, but that was happening before the pandemic, as many brick and mortars were being crushed by the weight of high rents and online businesses such as Amazon taking away from their profits.
I live in Manhattan. Two $h!t hole apartments. Hope the landlord goes broke. And that area around macys, I was there weeks ago and every inch was packed with vendors selling fake crap on the street. NYC has a long way to go.
I like NYC, I've lived in NJ all of my life, most of it just across the Hudson River, and I used to drive in NYC for a living. The biggest issues for me in regard to living in NYC is the NYPD, they get paid 🥜🥜🥜 and they all have a bad attitude like they're doing you a favor for not throwing you in jail. And the subway system has to be destroyed and made from scratch again, this time with modern equipment and train lines and schedules that make sense. If you look at the subway system in Tokyo for example, it makes the NYC subway look like it's a subway in Fallujah after a bombing raid. The smell of pee on the subway platforms, especially for someone like me with a blood hound nose, is terrible. I don't recall ever seeing public bathrooms like they have in other countries to prevent this. Just a lot of money being collected in taxes and rents and none of it is going to infrastructure. I wonder where is going?? 🤔
@@kennedyliberty1304 lol..city is for the young or the rich..im neither...i been there done it i dont have any need to live there again..even lower westchester bothers me...im in a better spot in ny ...its great up here
It's a sudden ache to even read the title 😔 I hope everything gets better soon and people will be happier and healthier ♥️ Lots of happiness to everybody
At least they're keeping these vacant storefronts clean and maintained. Here in LA, everything that's vacant is taken over by homeless encampments, vandalized, boarded up, and covered in trash.
the rents are way too high, that's the problem. i personally buy everything at thrift stores and on ebay, once in awhile at Walmart. i would never rent a store or apartment in NYC. only rich people can afford it.
So this guy has increased rents in the midst of an apartment glut - and wants the same amount for the second place, which isn't as good as the first? And, as you say, both living rooms are compromised by all those doors leading off them. Makes no sense to me 🤷♀️
Here in Australia I'm now being bombarded with "Visit NY" ad's on nearly all my internet feeds. It would have to be absolutely last place on earth I'd want to visit in the whole world.
Same here in the UK with online ads. Even tho British citizens are banned from the U.S currently. "The presidential proclamation of 14 March 2020 banned UK travellers from entering the US because their presence “threatens the security of our transportation system and infrastructure and the national security”. It prevents holidays and non-essential business or family trips to the US."
Very wise of you....it wasnt all they great even in 80s/90s. the rents are outrageous and it was almost always 50-80% of your income. the people are rude and the culture left ages ago, its crime ridden, it really lost its way. Def do not get hooked by the ads!!
That mall has always been vacant ish and those stores been gone. If you were born and raised in NYC those other midtown stores being closed is terrifying.
And Biden is spending ten billion dollars on promoting the vaccine that trump bought ... like no one knows about the vaccine. They destroyed this city and peoples lives so they could assault humanity with a bio weapon. They had the military literally giving out vaccines in front of bars in Dallas recently. They had just completed a patent on the vaccine just before the virus leaked from the lab where they were doing gain of function research (making a virus more easily spread) ... funded with tax payers money and fully supported by fauci. This WAS planned. See footage of rand Paul confronting fauci regarding his support for the gain of function research. Yes, terrifying!
None of those apartments were worth $3500.00. I pay $1200.00 for a three bedroom house on 2.2 acres. No rats, no homeless pooping in the street. No street crime. The way I see it. If you factor in rats, homeless and crime. Those places are worth about 200 bucks. $3500.00 is a joke.
All big cities are a scam…. Only decent sized one I think I’d actually like would be Boise…. Maybe a city in Florida or NC depending….. cities suck we were never meant to live like that rural is healthier quieter cheaper you get your own land…. Hate living like a rat….
Since weed is legal, I want what that landlord is smoking because he is out of his mind. There is nobody in their right mind going to rent those basic apartments. More upgraded units around NYC for much less sink sprayer or not. My memories of NYC are way before you were born, 70s teen years shopping at the Gap and Macy's.
I lived in a horrible tenement for $140/ month (1975), Vermin, falling plaster, shower in the kitchen next to the front door. No bathroom sink. Ugh. The owners fixed it up and sold the units as condos for $350K (2015). A combined unit went for $1M! Sublets now rent for $2,800.
@@hewitc why didn't you repair it? do a DYI? Every place I stay in, I don't care how bad it started out, if I am living in it, I will clean it up, paint it, plaster, whatever it takes to improve it.
@@broluxgigantos89: that was then. These days, there is a whole online community that will show you how to improve your rental at little cost and without interferring with the structure, fixtures and fittings.
@@broluxgigantos89 I guess a lot of people staying crap apartments think 'It's just for a short time', so they don't want to waste their money improving their landlords place
It’s happening in the uk as well. Debenhams is closing all its stores throughout the uk in the next couple weeks. They’ve been around 225 years. They were a major uk department store.
People were queuing right round the corner to get into Primark. Next also seem to be doing brisk business as well, so maybe Debenhams simply didn't keep up with the times - like Woolworths...
All the extremist level fanatic lockdowns have destroyed these cities versus using a more sane open policy with caution not extreme lockdown like cities in Sweden.
It’s New York do you know how many times it’s hit a recession and came back up throughout history. If New York goes down we all go down it’s the economic capital of the US. No matter what the rich you’re still gonna keep moving there whether they’re from the US or over seas. Businesses are going to keep opening and the stock markets going to keep turning but I wouldn’t expect anybody that sits at home and plays video games all fucking day at your age to understand that.
America as we know it will never be the same not in our generation the next Generations they will not know the difference and that's the truth. I say this because I'm 75 and I've seen so many changes not only from Georgia but I live here in Texas now 45 years I'm going back to text I have one sibling that still alive it's nothing like it was when I was a young girls and I had a love affair with the city you couldn't pay me go back to Atlanta Georgia I hate that freaking place and it one time I was still in love with it go figure that I guess it's when you fall out of love with somebody then you divorce them right
This is exactly what I’ve been telling my friends that live in different states now. Many of my friends I’ve known for years, ever since covid hit and many have lost their jobs, have moved out the city. Mostly everyone i know lives upstate, westchester, New Jersey, etc. You would think that these landlords would understand our situation and lower the rent costs so that we can be able to actually survive and be productive, but no.
@Valer lol 😂 the thing is everyone got the freedom to move anywhere and regardless of where you may to, prices are always gonna go up and it can be for the most ludicrous thing ever
Tell the politicians to get rid of rent control laws and watch those prices drop as housing becomes profitable and thus readily available. Its too hostile and expensive for landlords, that's why housing costs in cities like New York and San Francisco are through the roof.
I’m way more bullish on NYC as a whole, but Chicago has a defined downtown. The burbs and inner neighborhoods of Chicago are in serious trouble though.
NYC had a run up for the few years before this. My area is no name outside of Manhattan and rents went up 500 or 600 all of a sudden in 2019 and 2018 and everyone was confused why. A pullback was needed
I live in upstate New York and if I had to choose between much of New Jersey and New York City I would choose New Jersey.... New Jersey is extremely beautiful
Cool, I might go to NJ on a national exchange program. I picked NJCU as my first choice cause its right in front of Manhattan. Good choice or should I go to upstate NY? TIA
I can't stand guys like him going to big complex cities like NYC or SF and just stating all the obvious. We get it - Big cities with big problems. Now go do something else more positive.
A lot of things are possibly outside cities. People should really give it a try. I personally found that I liked driving around more than you could do in NYC. Now, the way things are looking, they want to force people to buy an electric vehicle, that is why they raised the price of oil. Hope things work out for you there.
I think the return to red meat and full fat dairy has given women curvier body shapes. These foods are high in fat and estrogen so most of it will end up in the breasts. These saturated fats form the basis of most new yorkers diets and a lot of younger female celebrities from new york often have very large breasts. Its the new diet that is rich in animal saturated fat!!
Shopping online and the crime rate inside malls is what has caused stores to close. Covid has made business realize that many employees can work from home and they don’t need a huge brick and mortar facility. I’m glad to see Macy’s. All of the Macy’s have closed in Memphis.
If you're in Memphis I can understand the "crime rate" comment - lol, We live in Middle TN, very upscale community with virtually no crime, and our malls are failing due to the online revolution. Also, Nextdoor, that neighborhood online site, has become a busy place for getting quality goods at little or no cost. One mall is considering converting to condos!! It would be nice if they kept the food court, theater and a few shops.
All orchestrated conditions over time! Started with Gates so-called computer invention. Humans are putting themselves out of business. By the time you young people figure it out, its roo late! Seems like better life, more conceniwnce. Its not...
NYC is a little different. People live there cause they want the NYC lifestyle. However, that is gone so there is little reason to live there. This is all the fault of their socialist leader who shut down the city and keeps it shut down. People will move back in when the city life comes back. It's just what they like. The stores will come back too because that's what they like and expect.
The city is opened until midnight and has been for months .. it’s closed just as she said . Although rent has dropped , it’s still way too high to compete with online shopping
I live outside seattle and it has the same thing going as new york. The good thing is the city of seattle is not that big and there is lots of good surrounding areas like 10 minutes to a 1/2 hour drive outside of downtown so we can all live just outside seattle and look at that dump and visit it without having to actually live there.
Living in NYC is an education. If you cannot travel to foreign countries you can learn about them just be living in NYC. You can find things like Tibetan food that you would never see in any suburban area.
Click on the Street Easy link in the description; that will show you. I even downloaded the Street Easy app, with my nosey self living down here in Georgia.
On the retail question, a lot of people make their purchases online. It's more comfortable than walking into a store and having your every move scrutinized.
@@TheBrainScratcher really? You cry over some retail workers (minimum wage exploited) and you're already done when they are only LOOKING at you? :D wtf have you ever been out in the real world madame?
So blaming politicians is an acceptable argument so long as the politicians are Democrats? But if anyone blamed a Republican politician, you people lose your minds. Funny how that works. 🍵🤔
For $3,000 a month for an "apartment" in New York City, you could have a "very nice," newly constructed, 3,000 square foot home in Phoenix with a large front and back yard with mountain views. I really don't see the draw there in New York City when you have cities like Phoenix, which is much more affordable, warmer, and scenic.
It's about the atmosphere, the people, the night life and for many it's worth every penny or at least it WAS now who knows what the city will look like in the near future hopefully marijuana industry can bring back some infrastructure but right now it's a barren wasteland which is extremely sad to see as a new yorker
I've been in NY all my life too, and the amount of empty store fronts has been so foreign to me. I was there when JCP renovated the lower levels to become that store. Sucks that they closed, but they relied on a lot of that subway traffic off the BDNR line.
Younger healthy people can go out and will be fine. Real mortality rate is proven 0,3% by Standford averageand acknowledged by the WHO if people would look at facts scientific databanks and not onyl follow media and politics but proper sources. Average death age 78. The best independet prognosed from the very beginning a mortality rate about 1% and even the PCR test manipulated 3,8% is no true pandemic after the proper older guidlines. All the number of this plandemic are based on the PCR test are based on the PCR test which isn't qualified for that use at all and the WHO had to accept that as well yet politics and media continue. Everythong about this theater is not about the health of people.
Liberals have been saying for years now that diversity is good for business, but it has destroyed the city and no one wants to admit it. Keep blaming the government and then voting for them again and again.
@SEAN PETAIA if it wasn’t for more progressive governments, all nyc residents that make the city so great would be displaced in a year. I don’t agree 100% with leftist politics, however it is needed to an extent in this city. Especially when It comes to housing
@@byoken What does diversity have to do with this? What New York need is a strong major & legislators that'll actually establish order. Order. How does "diversity" even correlate?
That JC Penny in the Manhattan mall was their flagship store and their first and only location in Manhattan. It was so sad to see it close. NYC will never have a more organized, cleaner, well-stocked department store. The closing of Kmart’s landmark location on 34th st was also a big loss, not to mention Toys R Us in Times Square. I could go on.
@@ScottyKirk1 The original store on 5th Ave closed years ago and reopened in Rockefeller Plaza. I believe that location is still open. I also recently noticed a new store inside LaGuardia airport.
@@vincentaurelius2390 Very cool. Thanks for the info. I have good memories of the late 90s at the original store. Incredible Star Wars displays getting ready for the Episode One launch.
Jcpenny wear i am is having big sales right now 50% off clothes, jewelry, shoes, you name it. If your willing to sell a 10k gold chain for 50% to 75% off yeah your having money trouble. There problem is not enough customers its killing all big business right now.
All of this is partly due to the coronavirus but its also been triggered by everything going online. There’s a seldom a need to visit a physical store or to work in an office anymore so the glut of merchant and office space will continue to grow not only in NYC but around the country as well.
And most of those retailers -Vitoria's Secret, GAP, Express- have either gone into bankruptcy or are about to. And this was before Covid. It's a sign of the times.
@@lindagarrido4353 the interesting thing to witness will be what happens next with all these empty spaces. There is a ton of opportunity to reimagine the space as something more than a brick and mortar retail store but it will take some creativity.
Listen, I live in Atlanta and I'm house hunting. I talked to a new home sales specialist yesterday and he said there's been several clients from New York and New Jersey buying homes here. Lots of Northerners moving south were they can get more for the money and better quality of life. It's driving the price of homes sales up.
Atlanta though will never be a trade off for NYC..... so long as society begins to prosper, NY will always be the place to live. Decline in NY, shows a worldwide decline.
@@LITMOVIESCENES Not to mention jobs don't pay as well in the south. I live in Florida working two jobs 16+ hours a day working on getting my money right. Yet we still get heavy tourism, especially in the Panhandle where I live, and everyone is screaming for help, but nobody wants to work. Sad.
This is happening in Florida too. Malls are dying. Internet shopping is taking over. I'm so sad because I love malls but covid really hurt tons of these businesses.
@ruggedrider7 I can’t agree with you more. Unless NYC can be taken over by Republicans in office it won’t return what it once was. Deblasio is a big issue but I think the bigger issue is Cuomo.
Leaving NYC next month. Expected to live here a while longer, even forever at one point, but this city has gone south. Quality of life down, cost (taxes, etc.) up. Can get so much more out of life elsewhere at this point.
Born and bred NYC native. I lived in Chelsea until 9 years old and Inwood Manhattan for 10 years with a few years in Brooklyn and 10 years in nearby NJ. I left in 2010 and am actually considering moving back. It might be kinda cool living in a ghost town.
I don't see how most businesses make it in NYC where the rents are soo high. Most of the time when I see videos on NYC there are hardly any customers in the stores. I'm totally baffled. As for all of those empty spaces, there's plenty of room for the new world order to take over. :)
Some of the high end places (watches for example) open them in prime locations to showcase their brand. The retail sales aren't meant to cover the rent and salaries, just defray them somewhat.
@@texashsad I wear a watch. The only reason young people don't wear watches is they don't know how to tell time. Coworkers constantly ask me the time and we have a clock on the wall! They go to the computer so they can read it digitally. So sad....
The pandemic might have sped up the decline of brick and mortar clothing stores, but online shopping has definitely been chipping away at them for years.
I’m not a liberal and I’m not a conservative, I am just me. Don’t care about or want to support any political movement, social agenda, etc. however, it seems like the cities and states that have gone Uber liberal and are just completely submissive to letting the city/ state do whatever they want have gone to crap. Look at California, look at Seattle, look at NYC. Thanks to the CV lockdowns private and small businesses and freedoms have been destroyed for good. The state doesn’t take more power from the people and just give it back once the “crisis” is over. Something no one is talking about is how the past year we have seen the consolidation of power and money into the hands of a small group of monopolies and wealth family, at an unprecedented rate.
People actually from NYC aren't going anywhere, you transplants can go wherever you want. Whenever the situation changes, transplants are the first people to leave and seek out other cities. We NYers are tired of the commercialization of our city, our neighborhoods being gentrified by yuppy transplants, the rising cost of living and these hard left mayors and governors who want to give everything away for free. Let's bring mom and pop businesses back, let's bring diners back, let's bring artists back. Then when everything becomes hip again, you transplants can crawl back and claim you're NYers again.
The greedy Landlord probably lived in that second apartment... One morning, he banged his head on that huge pole while getting out of the tub... The poor guy hasn’t been the same ever since. 😳🙄🤦🏻♀️
The side-effects of a pandemic. Job losses, government being stingy with our taxes- letting the poor be evicted, mental health not being addressed by health insurances as needed,...and the list keeps growing. The ripple effects with be felt for a while.
My money is still on New York for a come back unlike San Francisco and Los Angeles. Chicago's downtown will limp along to recovery but it'll be much slower than New York.
I’m still bummed that McDonald’s near the port authority and next to ripleys is gone. When I was a broke bish tryna chase a dream and getting off the greyhound that would be my first food stop. Even up to the pandemic and its closing, I’d go there when I was in the area cause of nostalgia.
You mean the big, 2-level McDonald's!? Wow. Well....in a sense it was a tourist annoyance and very hectic at the floor level (including harassment via strangers and not very good orders from young adults. But....)
This is actually a good thing because New York City has always been way too crowded. I got sick of always seeing film of crowds of people flowing down all sidewalks to where you couldn't even see sidewalk. Now, it finally looks like a nice, normal city. Let's hope it never goes back to the way it was.
@@Gigatheologian They have moved here to Florida now the New Yorkers have caused our rent to increase by 40% . Us natives can’t even afford it here anymore.
My heart is broken. I left the city because I thought my daughter would be better off in suburban schools. A tragic mistake because New York was home to me, I never felt comfortable in the suburbs. I decided to try to get back to the city, then Covid changed everything . My city is gone. I will never be home again.
Never leave. You can seldom get back unless you have money. I thought about leaving London to get more for the little money I had a few years' ago, but my finances improved and I was able to stay.
Tina I feel the same way. I started planning to move to New York when I was 10, from a small midwest town where I was miserable. I moved there when I was 16, on a dance scholarship, and felt more freedom and joy than I had ever known. New York was paradise to me for 30 years. Then I lost my job, my landlord raised my rent by 500 dollars a month, what little savings I had didn't last until I could find a new job, and POOF, just like that, I was back in that same place I worked so hard to escape. Now the city is not the one I left. It is heartbreaking.
The landlord who decided to raise his prices clearly doesn’t understand supply and demand.
He's being an ass hole
A flat like that is bad even for a third world country but at least you'd get it cheap in there.
@@zabranjenakojasko6833 smh! America being reduced to a third world nation.
I could never understand how people would justify paying those premiums to live in a dump
somebody has more of a demand than you that can pay a higher price - welcome to nyc sucker
Good for them! they kicked out the working class and now they are losing money 👏🏼
Yes!!! Good.
It’s a tax write off.
For the landlord, it’s a matter of opportunity cost.
Yea, he could take a hit, lower the rent and probably find a tenant to pay said lower rent.
OR, he could raise the rent on the listing, knowing that nobody will take it for that price.
Because he has no tenant, and the unit is actively listed on the market, he can write it off on his taxes, and recoup more than he’d get in revenue if he rented it for the actual market rate.
And then there are city and state programs for landlords in distress due to the pandemic. These measures were intended to bail out mom & pop landlords who were stuck with their mortgage payments while tenants couldn’t afford to pay rent, but, obviously, the mom& pop landlords still got fucked, renters still owe back rent they can’t afford to pay, all while large and well-connected institutional investors are hoovering up price supports, grants and forgivable loans, buying out distressed assets from smaller mom&pops, and working to get tenants evicted.
Issues like this are endemic in the ny residential market rn.
People who do shit like this are the same exact people who pay their workers below-minimum wage, and when nobody takes it, they cry that it’s the governments fault for paying emergency unemployment..As if unemployment was a UBI, not an emergency stop gap for workers that were actually fired, who need to prove that they’re willing and able to work to continue to receive unemployment .
Of course, they’re not usually bright enough to see the big macro picture. That expanded unemployment is the reason why their businesses have consumer demand in the first place, because they establish a floor for those whose industries were massively disrupted by the pandemic. Many of those jobs aren’t coming back, ever. Some will, but, surprise surprise, often times workers can’t afford to take them o they’d need child care that’ could cost more than their wages.
@@AssadNizam I am sure you are 100% correct but what can we do about it???
Exactly
Hahah as if
NYC has lost its soul. I was there in the 70s and 80s (I moved out in the early 90s). Yes, it was dirty, crime infested, and dangerous, but it was also so much more exciting, with cheap neighborhoods and lots of character. There was always something to do, and much of it was cheap or free. There were always fascinating things to see and all kinds of people walked the streets. Now it's like Disneyland and only the extremely wealthy can afford it. It seems more like a movie set now than a proper city. Post Covid, it seems dead and lifeless too. This is a city whose best days are behind it, I think.
@ luckyotter your 100% correct. I was born in Jamaica Queen's in 1983. By the time is was 7yrs old, Nyc had a modern record of 2,200 homicides in 1990; which no city in America even came close. It's quickly getting back to those days. I believe they are also fudging murder statistics to make the city seem less dangerous. The signs of decay are here and this time we can't blame crack cocaine as the engine that's fueling the murder rate. No matter how much we move forward in time, we seem to still stay the same as a society.
A clean NYC is better than a filthy, crime ridden NYC. You could breathe easily without choking to death
Ok boomer
@@anantsharma7955 stop saying that. You’re basically telling the whole world that you’re either too dumb or too lazy to come up with a proper comeback and guess what, we suspect both to be true. So save everyone some time and some space in this comment section by keeping it shut or posting something constructive. There, life lesson in ONE comment, you’re welcome.
@@MFUA-cam683 ok boomer
That landlord is desperate AF if he thinks he can rent those apts for $3,500. Why would anyone pay that amount when they can get a bigger, modernized apt for less? I don't care what neighborhood it is in. lol
Exactly!
That apartment is worth $1100.00 a month. It screams 1987 and hasn't been remodeled in 100 years.
That apartment will be empty for over 1 year. I wish the landlord well haha
And only one bedroom has a closet!
This is the opposite of desperate. Seems rich AF....he doesn't need the money and doesn't care if it gets rented out. Or he's completely delusional and doesn't know what time it is. Perhaps he doesn't live in NYC or the US....just so out of touch.
NYC in 2021 is a mere ghost of it's former glorious self. Glad I did my thing there in the 80s and 90s.....
It is coming back and will come back, but shutting it down was nothing more then DUMB AS IT GETS
Yep.
Me too, however... it breaks my heart....
We went in the Spring and the Fall of 2011. Central Park was glorious both times. We saw all the sites and 'Phantom of the Opera'. We had a blast! I would never go now!
Aww man
Looks like the city that never sleeps needs to wake up.
Nope. Got a better idea, let sodom AND gommorah
(New york and Los angeles) burn.
These places had it coming for a long time.
Omg, "the city that never sleeps needs to wake up" fantastic words!
It’s almost like the whole world is going through a recession. I wonder why…
But if it never sleeps, how would it "wake up"?
@@Somethingaweful Ask Anthony, Billy, and Santa Claus Schwab, lol.
It’s a little nice to see those wasteful, shameless, spend-happy politicians in NYC get their comeuppance. They’ve lived above their means for too long.
So your telling me people don’t want live and work in a over-taxed, crime ridden city?
half the battle of eliminating crime is getting people into decent paying jobs and get rid of poverty...but from the looks of things the EXACT OPPOSITE is now happeneing.
They elected th Democrats. They reap what they sow.
I suppose "opportunity zones " are any better.
*you're
Apocalypse Now...battle for NYC
Rent shouldn't be over 25% of your income EVER. you'll thank me later and you're welcome
Same for taxes.
And anybody who lives somewhere where it is, either is wasteful with their money, or has no sense.
@@Hobopaladin Where do you live?
The problem is that *no* rent is less than 50%. There are no better options, and no one is doing anything about these unhinged ass landlords
@@roxycauldwell544 Then why not vote with your feet, and LEAVE?
Tremendous line: “These would make fantastic Christmas presents for someone that you hate.” By the way, that $3500 apartment is horrible. I wouldn’t want that for $1000.
Not even for free
I pay much less and have 4000 square feet
Right! is like landlords look for an empty Conner in the building, built a toilet, and call it an apartment.
I listen to New Yorkers talk about apt prices and I’m like bro I bought a house with a yard for like half the price in Connecticut which is like an hour and a half from the city wtf are you doing
NYC apartments are so poorly designed, unless they're very new. Look at those tiny heaters in one of the featured apartments. I doubt they can actually heat the place when it's -20F.
That apartment should be no more than $1200. That’s being generous
The price is what folks will pay - like cars, restaurant food or clothes. Some may think you are overpaid but it’s what those paying you agreed to.
In Alaska an apartment like that is about 2200/mo
I got a spot for rent in my flower pot for 50000 dollars a day limited time offer nyc paradise.
Nah bro. I’d say $2500-$2800 a month is about right. $1200 a month for a 2 bedroom in lower east side 14st in NYC? For that I’d also like to live in a beach front, 2 bedroom condo in Malibu for $1200 a month, Since we’re being “generous”.
@@smb123211 House/rent prices are a special case because you have to live somewhere so people cannot simply say no for a more balanced demand and supply effect. This unhealthy development already started depending where you live aorund in the 1980s and out of controll since 2010. Politics should have careful done something about it. It weakens the economy when all the money goes into housing and cannot be spend.
Just because you can stand inside the closet doesn’t means it’s a walk-in closet. That’s just a regular closet.
He was kidding...you know.
Me thinks so too! Once you hang your clothes in there and shove your luggage and shoe boxes at the bottom the only place you’re gonna stand is at the door! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Never rent from a greedy landlord. They will raise your rent every year and likely do the cheapest amount of maintenance on the apartment. I have lived in NYC for 20 years. You would be astounded by landlord greed.
What small business owner is not greedy to some extent? Everyone wants to make what they can. My friend became a landlord. Unfortunately he wasn't greedy. He was nice to the tenants and did all the repairs etc. Some tenants (who were already paying ridiculously below market rents under rent control) took advantage of him and stopped paying any rent. He couldn't evict them because and eviction proceeding required a building code inspection. The tenant would break the light fixture in front of the mailboxes (a violation) just before the inspector arrived. The case was dismissed. My friend owned the building for ten years then sold at a loss.
The word, "greed" has a bad rap except when you become a landlord, you would think twice because once you become a landlord, you have property taxes. What if you're a small landlord? The sad part of NY right now is that it isn't a landlord-friendly state. If you're a tenant and coming back to the city to rent, your salary or a couple's total salary should be at least 100K or above.
@@hewitc There is a middle ground imo
@@Queleb1 Absolutely. We tend to pick one side and never see the other.
@@Queleb1 I think the middle ground here is to not live in New York City. Just sayin'.
I hope this keeps happening, and that New York becomes a ghost town. Everyone simply became too greedy! I am so tired of hearing about old buildings and landlords asking for overrated appartments costing $3000 a month as if the average new yorker makes 120k a year!
All planned! Take down big cities, NYC, LA, SF, the rest will follow! You want to see greed? Wait until Amazon finishes with us!
NYC is/was the capitol of capitalism. They chose leaders that want to turn it into socialism. This is what's happening.
@@dwaynedwayne1964 if you’ve ever lived there, you have to wonder if that’s such a bad thing. The materialism that dominates every day life there can be oppressive
@@dwaynedwayne1964 How??? How is Cuomo a socialist??
@@gabriellew.4847 We missed you at the last meeting on how to destroy all big cities so we can wander like effing nomads. Grow a brain. No one's "planning" to "take down cities". Sounds like Onion headlines. Go Amazon. Jesus, what is wrong with people today?
For generations Landlords gave businessmen and women a difficult time. If you haven't dealt with one, they're probably one of the most difficult people to deal with. And in a good market, they're willing to destroy you at any cost.
A local gym owner [after establishing her business for over five years] was forced to leave because they'd tripped her rent. I get it, this is ok as they have to ask what the market is willing to pay, but they have the littlest remorse for their actions and no empathy for the business owner.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY the table is now switched on them. By many businesses operating online.
Screw them!
Well said. Especially immigrant landlords. They forget where they come from. No empathy
You're telling me man. You're telling me...
Idek why you need a commercial property in the city anyway, most of your business is by mail! Go to Texas bro. Wake up. You might have to convert to Christianity though, but wouldn't be the first Rossmann to do that for shekels I'm sure.
Louis. Love ya
HASH NOT ALL nah man, Austin is like Texas San Francisco. You don’t need to convert to anything, lol.
@@hashnotall6263 I lived in NYC back in the 90s very fun those days. It really felt like the capitol of the world. But I can understand people wanting to leave. With the current safety issues, rent, lock down
@@hashnotall6263 i don't know how you know where most of my business is from without having access to my books
This is going on everywhere, not just New York.
Red states are booming. People are moving there and living their best happy life. NYC is ruined like Chicago and LA to terrible policies led by lunatics.
@@zgirl1385 Yeah, Texas is doing "great". Increasing Property Taxes, High Crime Rate, Energy companies price gouging, crippling infrastructure. Yearly climate disasters. And the worst thing... Ted Cruz 🤮.
Sounds like a dream.
@@devinmay3038 Better than NY or IL where I have lived the past 30 years. I looked at Texas taxes and they are way low in comparison. You also don't have personal state income tax which offsets property taxes. Your civil liberties are way more protected in Texas than in a communist state like NY. People I know are selling and moving to Tenn, Florida, the Carolinas and Texas. It might be bad in Texas but way worse in the blue bankrupt states
@@zgirl1385
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@@devinmay3038 I get it you love NY and are happy to pay for the lifestyle. I have lived in many parts of the country and the world and I can tell you that you will never get ahead living in the north. As for your lists, funny no Florida, Texas, Tenn. or the Carolinas which are the states I specifically said were states growing massively in #'s. NY, IL and Cali are all losing seats after the last census and in 10 years the slaughter will be greater thanks to Biden and his merry band of idiots who are have been successful at one thing in the first 100 days and that is destroying the nation. So Devin, you enjoy NYC and all it has to offer which frankly is not the NYC I enjoyed that thriving and booming. Another observation is how can you have 2021 stats when the year is not even over?
$3,500? Are the first six months free?
I wouldn't have paid that even in 2019.
Who makes that much a month? I mean there's no working class left?
I wouldnt even pay that 700 he mentioned, what a joke, yup keep your "treasure " pal!
That's someone's mortgage right there
I think NYC retail landlords were milking the cash cow of high rents for so many years they probably never saw it coming that the cow would dry up at some point. It's terrible to see the large brands leave the city, but that was happening before the pandemic, as many brick and mortars were being crushed by the weight of high rents and online businesses such as Amazon taking away from their profits.
The cow didn't dry up, it died.
Too many have the take the money and run idea . They do not think of the future , it has been a problem since before the crash of 29 .
@@Jay-vr9ir nailed it
They will wait years to fill space before lowering rents. They just wait out the cycle instead of locking in 10 years at a lower price.
I live in Manhattan. Two $h!t hole apartments. Hope the landlord goes broke. And that area around macys, I was there weeks ago and every inch was packed with vendors selling fake crap on the street. NYC has a long way to go.
It's like the middle of China.
To go nowhere fast!
I like NYC, I've lived in NJ all of my life, most of it just across the Hudson River, and I used to drive in NYC for a living. The biggest issues for me in regard to living in NYC is the NYPD, they get paid 🥜🥜🥜 and they all have a bad attitude like they're doing you a favor for not throwing you in jail. And the subway system has to be destroyed and made from scratch again, this time with modern equipment and train lines and schedules that make sense. If you look at the subway system in Tokyo for example, it makes the NYC subway look like it's a subway in Fallujah after a bombing raid. The smell of pee on the subway platforms, especially for someone like me with a blood hound nose, is terrible. I don't recall ever seeing public bathrooms like they have in other countries to prevent this. Just a lot of money being collected in taxes and rents and none of it is going to infrastructure. I wonder where is going?? 🤔
nyc was built in 1800# give it a break other modern systems were recently built
I hear you!
People are finally realizing just how much of an open sewer of a city NYC is.
Is ran by democrats. Not surprised.
It is. I'm planning to move off long Island. Moving out if state by next year
@@007donj nice what part
When you have people like AOC behind it, things will go to sh**
$3500 a month? I predict the landlord will get $0 a month for a long time.
thats y its empty , lol
Yep! Your prediction will come true because nobody can afford that kind of rent anymore.
the land lord just wants to keep blacks out
@LPTV useless out dated farm equipment
@@juanshaftpatel7488 all you talk about is being black, are you racist.
Thanks for reminding me why I would never live in NYC again in this life time
where u move ?
its better than guatemala
@@shelibeau1990 theres way better places than nyc ...
@@LITMOVIESCENES Lies
@@kennedyliberty1304 lol..city is for the young or the rich..im neither...i been there done it i dont have any need to live there again..even lower westchester bothers me...im in a better spot in ny ...its great up here
Damn. People are about to know struggle like they've never experienced before
I know. This does not bode well at all.
Lol. Not me.
Been homeless 7 times before age 30. Now I am living large on my farm.
I am still gonna be stuffing my face.
I can honestly say those apartments, even with a sink sprayer, are a hard pass at that price. You've shown way too many better options. 🤷♀️
Exactly ! Can’t believe the landlord raised the rent for this lmao my rent is cheaper and way nicer than this dump
I could see why more people are living on the streets - the rent is FREE.
"These would make fantastic Christmas presents for someone that you hate." Memorable quote of the day - for me anyway.
That comment made me choke with laughter!
"And it has a ladder which I guess you get to keep" did it for me 🤣
😹😹😹😹
I didn't know it was possible to see the New York streets that empty
It's a sudden ache to even read the title 😔
I hope everything gets better soon and people will be happier and healthier ♥️
Lots of happiness to everybody
At least they're keeping these vacant storefronts clean and maintained. Here in LA, everything that's vacant is taken over by homeless encampments, vandalized, boarded up, and covered in trash.
Just like Portland 😕
Gets too F**KKIN COLD here to camp out!
@@nikkihines3652 just like the whole country
@@qjtvaddict 😂😂 true...
Democrat shit holes with dirty voter rolls.
the rents are way too high, that's the problem. i personally buy everything at thrift stores and on ebay, once in awhile at Walmart. i would never rent a store or apartment in NYC. only rich people can afford it.
So this guy has increased rents in the midst of an apartment glut - and wants the same amount for the second place, which isn't as good as the first? And, as you say, both living rooms are compromised by all those doors leading off them. Makes no sense to me 🤷♀️
Maybe owned by Jared Kushner? LOL.
@@susanmark2000
🤤🤤😂😭😭🤣
This is pretty much the story of retail everywhere in America right now...
Not so Arizona is booming!
@@barbieblue2213 what is so great about arizona?
@@michaelupsala420 Freedom!Growth!Family friendly
Warner Robins is doing great!
@@barbieblue2213 you could grow your OWN bamboo!
Here in Australia I'm now being bombarded with "Visit NY" ad's on nearly all my internet feeds.
It would have to be absolutely last place on earth I'd want to visit in the whole world.
Same here in the UK with online ads. Even tho British citizens are banned from the U.S currently.
"The presidential proclamation of 14 March 2020 banned UK travellers from entering the US because their presence “threatens the security of our transportation system and infrastructure and the national security”. It prevents holidays and non-essential business or family trips to the US."
I am sad to say as a New Yorker. Don't come.
@@edwardvelez6764
Sorry Eddie.
Very wise of you....it wasnt all they great even in 80s/90s. the rents are outrageous and it was almost always 50-80% of your income. the people are rude and the culture left ages ago, its crime ridden, it really lost its way. Def do not get hooked by the ads!!
I’m a native ny’er and even I refuse to visit.
That mall has always been vacant ish and those stores been gone. If you were born and raised in NYC those other midtown stores being closed is terrifying.
And Biden is spending ten billion dollars on promoting the vaccine that trump bought ... like no one knows about the vaccine. They destroyed this city and peoples lives so they could assault humanity with a bio weapon. They had the military literally giving out vaccines in front of bars in Dallas recently. They had just completed a patent on the vaccine just before the virus leaked from the lab where they were doing gain of function research (making a virus more easily spread) ... funded with tax payers money and fully supported by fauci. This WAS planned. See footage of rand Paul confronting fauci regarding his support for the gain of function research. Yes, terrifying!
@@OfftoShambala omg
N be
@@OfftoShambala Yeah, I saw a few the Rand Paul videos this week. What's terrifying to me, is that people actually voted for those Damned Dem crooks.
None of those apartments were worth $3500.00. I pay $1200.00 for a three bedroom house on 2.2 acres. No rats, no homeless pooping in the street. No street crime. The way I see it. If you factor in rats, homeless and crime. Those places are worth about 200 bucks. $3500.00 is a joke.
Facts. Hahaha. Living in NYC is a scam.
NY 🤢🤮
LA too 😐
Cities are dying worldwide. Rural life is booming
All big cities are a scam…. Only decent sized one I think I’d actually like would be Boise…. Maybe a city in Florida or NC depending….. cities suck we were never meant to live like that rural is healthier quieter cheaper you get your own land…. Hate living like a rat….
love the apartment. Easily worth $350 a month
Quit smoking weed....$3,500 is a mortgage for a 4,500 square foot home with a pool in Texas.
@@robtriton can you read?
Since weed is legal, I want what that landlord is smoking because he is out of his mind. There is nobody in their right mind going to rent those basic apartments. More upgraded units around NYC for much less sink sprayer or not. My memories of NYC are way before you were born, 70s teen years shopping at the Gap and Macy's.
lol he must have just taken it up
I lived in a horrible tenement for $140/ month (1975), Vermin, falling plaster, shower in the kitchen next to the front door. No bathroom sink. Ugh. The owners fixed it up and sold the units as condos for $350K (2015). A combined unit went for $1M! Sublets now rent for $2,800.
@@hewitc why didn't you repair it? do a DYI?
Every place I stay in, I don't care how bad it started out, if I am living in it, I will clean it up, paint it, plaster, whatever it takes to improve it.
@@broluxgigantos89: that was then. These days, there is a whole online community that will show you how to improve your rental at little cost and without interferring with the structure, fixtures and fittings.
@@broluxgigantos89 I guess a lot of people staying crap apartments think 'It's just for a short time', so they don't want to waste their money improving their landlords place
It’s happening in the uk as well. Debenhams is closing all its stores throughout the uk in the next couple weeks. They’ve been around 225 years. They were a major uk department store.
what about selfridges? they always had hot chicks working there
Dang the UK too 😢
@@michaelupsala420 Selfridges went LUXURY only - doubled their prices turning it into a ghost shop with more staff than customers.
People were queuing right round the corner to get into Primark. Next also seem to be doing brisk business as well, so maybe Debenhams simply didn't keep up with the times - like Woolworths...
All the extremist level fanatic lockdowns have destroyed these cities versus using a more sane open policy with caution not extreme lockdown like cities in Sweden.
"It's definitely going to come back."
keep telling yourself that kiddo.
Only in a 1984 environment.
It’s New York do you know how many times it’s hit a recession and came back up throughout history. If New York goes down we all go down it’s the economic capital of the US. No matter what the rich you’re still gonna keep moving there whether they’re from the US or over seas. Businesses are going to keep opening and the stock markets going to keep turning but I wouldn’t expect anybody that sits at home and plays video games all fucking day at your age to understand that.
@@uhhggg9335 not until after 2030
@@uhhggg9335 don't count on it with the all the taxes on the way
America as we know it will never be the same not in our generation the next Generations they will not know the difference and that's the truth. I say this because I'm 75 and I've seen so many changes not only from Georgia but I live here in Texas now 45 years I'm going back to text I have one sibling that still alive it's nothing like it was when I was a young girls and I had a love affair with the city you couldn't pay me go back to Atlanta Georgia I hate that freaking place and it one time I was still in love with it go figure that I guess it's when you fall out of love with somebody then you divorce them right
This is exactly what I’ve been telling my friends that live in different states now. Many of my friends I’ve known for years, ever since covid hit and many have lost their jobs, have moved out the city. Mostly everyone i know lives upstate, westchester, New Jersey, etc. You would think that these landlords would understand our situation and lower the rent costs so that we can be able to actually survive and be productive, but no.
@Valer lol 😂 the thing is everyone got the freedom to move anywhere and regardless of where you may to, prices are always gonna go up and it can be for the most ludicrous thing ever
landlords have to make ends meet too.... it's not like everyone whips out the manual for the last time there were insane lockdowns and restrictions
Tell the politicians to get rid of rent control laws and watch those prices drop as housing becomes profitable and thus readily available. Its too hostile and expensive for landlords, that's why housing costs in cities like New York and San Francisco are through the roof.
@@galaxytraveler5779 upstate properties are owned by billionaires who think we're somehow making $150000k
@@galaxytraveler5779 they could for example find a job
Funny how NYC rents continue to drop while Chicago remains the same or even rising. Meanwhile, people are still leaving Chicago.
I’m way more bullish on NYC as a whole, but Chicago has a defined downtown. The burbs and inner neighborhoods of Chicago are in serious trouble though.
New York is about making the dollar.. anyway u can. Money can’t stop
NYC had a run up for the few years before this. My area is no name outside of Manhattan and rents went up 500 or 600 all of a sudden in 2019 and 2018 and everyone was confused why. A pullback was needed
Even rich people are like "this rent is wasting our money!"
The rich have flown to South East Asia, or Dubai and all of UAE.
Lots of NYers have moved across the river to NJ. New luxury apartments, twice the size of that crap you showed us, for the same price.
I live in upstate New York and if I had to choose between much of New Jersey and New York City I would choose New Jersey.... New Jersey is extremely beautiful
Yea just leave the commie bullshit there when you come
I moved to Flagstaff, AZ. Fuck home, the tri-state area can suck my nuts.
Cool, I might go to NJ on a national exchange program. I picked NJCU as my first choice cause its right in front of Manhattan. Good choice or should I go to upstate NY? TIA
@@jamesfarmer3759 NJ is a shit hole with the same politics, what are you smoking, lol.
cash jordan is so underrated i’m so glad i found him
He's a nice guy
He’s cute 🪴
I can't stand guys like him going to big complex cities like NYC or SF and just stating all the obvious.
We get it - Big cities with big problems. Now go do something else more positive.
absolute same. hands down!
ik I wish to give more to youtubers I watch for hours to support them lol, they kept me sane during the last year
So sad I never had the chance to travel to NYC, it looked so magical in movies.
Same :(
Yeah….
Yeah it used to be, your not missing anything now I promise. Maybe in 5 years
In the 2000's it was really great, but ya know shit happens.
I fled the city for a country homestead last year, I'm done with city life. I now shop at the local farm store which seems to be doing brisk business.
A lot of things are possibly outside cities. People should really give it a try. I personally found that I liked driving around more than you could do in NYC. Now, the way things are looking, they want to force people to buy an electric vehicle, that is why they raised the price of oil. Hope things work out for you there.
I think the return to red meat and full fat dairy has given women curvier body shapes. These foods are high in fat and estrogen so most of it will end up in the breasts. These saturated fats form the basis of most new yorkers diets and a lot of younger female celebrities from new york often have very large breasts. Its the new diet that is rich in animal saturated fat!!
Shopping online and the crime rate inside malls is what has caused stores to close. Covid has made business realize that many employees can work from home and they don’t need a huge brick and mortar facility. I’m glad to see Macy’s. All of the Macy’s have closed in Memphis.
If you're in Memphis I can understand the "crime rate" comment - lol, We live in Middle TN, very upscale community with virtually no crime, and our malls are failing due to the online revolution.
Also, Nextdoor, that neighborhood online site, has become a busy place for getting quality goods at little or no cost.
One mall is considering converting to condos!! It would be nice if they kept the food court, theater and a few shops.
All orchestrated conditions over time! Started with Gates so-called computer invention. Humans are putting themselves out of business. By the time you young people figure it out, its roo late! Seems like better life, more conceniwnce. Its not...
NYC is a little different. People live there cause they want the NYC lifestyle. However, that is gone so there is little reason to live there. This is all the fault of their socialist leader who shut down the city and keeps it shut down. People will move back in when the city life comes back. It's just what they like. The stores will come back too because that's what they like and expect.
Where are you from
The city is opened until midnight and has been for months .. it’s closed just as she said . Although rent has dropped , it’s still way too high to compete with online shopping
I live outside seattle and it has the same thing going as new york. The good thing is the city of seattle is not that big and there is lots of good surrounding areas like 10 minutes to a 1/2 hour drive outside of downtown so we can all live just outside seattle and look at that dump and visit it without having to actually live there.
Yup that's pretty much every city with 1m+ people
Kenmore resident here. Can confirm 100%.
In the 30 years I lived in NYC, I went to the Mall of Manhattan once. Because I realized the the whole of Manhattan is actually one big Mall. LOL
yup, sounds about right.
That mall used to be wayy better!!
Yup, I maybe went a handful of times in the two decades I have lived in Manhattan.
Living in NYC is an education. If you cannot travel to foreign countries you can learn about them just be living in NYC. You can find things like Tibetan food that you would never see in any suburban area.
@@hewitc Yeah, and the delivery people from those restaurants running you down in the crosswalks....
DeBlasio takes this as a badge of honor
Those apartments are hideous
Can we get a follow up on how long it takes the landlord to rent these places?
This is what I want also
Click on the Street Easy link in the description; that will show you. I even downloaded the Street Easy app, with my nosey self living down here in Georgia.
@@annthrockmorton1517 😂😂😂😂😂
@@annthrockmorton1517 It should be said, street easy is famous for tons of errors and bad information.
@@annthrockmorton1517 🤣🤣🤣
If only i had the same level of optimism in my life, as this landlord...
That second bathroom with the pipe in the middle is quite neighborly. You'll know when the people upstairs flush their toilets.
On the retail question, a lot of people make their purchases online. It's more comfortable than walking into a store and having your every move scrutinized.
@Ace Adonis they revel in it. makes them feel authoritative for once in their dead-end jobs.
Absolutely!
Or getting panhandled to by a derelict “doorman” who makes you have to get around him to be able to enter or leave.
@@WakkoKakko wow what a major inconvenienve for you when the doorman is literally minimum wage, poor privileged you :(
@@TheBrainScratcher really? You cry over some retail workers (minimum wage exploited) and you're already done when they are only LOOKING at you? :D wtf have you ever been out in the real world madame?
You have a sweet mayor. He really knows how to touch you and run a city. LOL
I think you meant to say governor 😂
U mean the governor. Mayor destroyed NYC FYI
@@brianmiller915 both
@@rma3_3_3 The "LOL" at the end makes me think that he was sarcastic...
Where's Grandma? 😑
Blame COVID 19 and your politicians. Blame Governor Cuomo and Bill de Blasio.
Um ...🇨🇳
That is what all my NY ppl are telling me now!
Want them out we need someone who works for the people but the problem is most ny are to liberals and not independent
So blaming politicians is an acceptable argument so long as the politicians are Democrats? But if anyone blamed a Republican politician, you people lose your minds. Funny how that works. 🍵🤔
On a positive note all of those spaces are not boarded up and burned out like Portalnd, Oregon 😁.
Not yet...
That landlord is out of his mind. That apartment is not worth $3,500 I’ve seen fully renovated apt same size or bigger for $2,000. A joke
Cash did mention that the LL is willing to take offers if that price is too high.
For $3,000 a month for an "apartment" in New York City, you could have a "very nice," newly constructed, 3,000 square foot home in Phoenix with a large front and back yard with mountain views. I really don't see the draw there in New York City when you have cities like Phoenix, which is much more affordable, warmer, and scenic.
It's about the atmosphere, the people, the night life and for many it's worth every penny or at least it WAS now who knows what the city will look like in the near future hopefully marijuana industry can bring back some infrastructure but right now it's a barren wasteland which is extremely sad to see as a new yorker
I've been in NY all my life too, and the amount of empty store fronts has been so foreign to me. I was there when JCP renovated the lower levels to become that store. Sucks that they closed, but they relied on a lot of that subway traffic off the BDNR line.
We took twenty steps backwards as a city. Please be safe fellow New Yorkers. Do not engage or stick out.
Younger healthy people can go out and will be fine. Real mortality rate is proven 0,3% by Standford averageand acknowledged by the WHO if people would look at facts scientific databanks and not onyl follow media and politics but proper sources. Average death age 78. The best independet prognosed from the very beginning a mortality rate about 1% and even the PCR test manipulated 3,8% is no true pandemic after the proper older guidlines. All the number of this plandemic are based on the PCR test are based on the PCR test which isn't qualified for that use at all and the WHO had to accept that as well yet politics and media continue. Everythong about this theater is not about the health of people.
@@kidaria1333 OP said don’t engage or stick out. They weren’t talking about Covid.
Liberals have been saying for years now that diversity is good for business, but it has destroyed the city and no one wants to admit it. Keep blaming the government and then voting for them again and again.
@SEAN PETAIA if it wasn’t for more progressive governments, all nyc residents that make the city so great would be displaced in a year. I don’t agree 100% with leftist politics, however it is needed to an extent in this city. Especially when It comes to housing
@@byoken What does diversity have to do with this? What New York need is a strong major & legislators that'll actually establish order. Order. How does "diversity" even correlate?
These videos are fascinating for a thousand reasons. Thanks for posting this content.
That JC Penny in the Manhattan mall was their flagship store and their first and only location in Manhattan. It was so sad to see it close. NYC will never have a more organized, cleaner, well-stocked department store. The closing of Kmart’s landmark location on 34th st was also a big loss, not to mention Toys R Us in Times Square. I could go on.
did not know about kmart. wow what even exists in herald square anymore?
Is FAO Schwartz still there? I heard it closed, and then reopened and then closed again...
@@ScottyKirk1 The original store on 5th Ave closed years ago and reopened in Rockefeller Plaza. I believe that location is still open. I also recently noticed a new store inside LaGuardia airport.
@@vincentaurelius2390 Very cool. Thanks for the info. I have good memories of the late 90s at the original store. Incredible Star Wars displays getting ready for the Episode One launch.
Jcpenny wear i am is having big sales right now 50% off clothes, jewelry, shoes, you name it. If your willing to sell a 10k gold chain for 50% to 75% off yeah your having money trouble. There problem is not enough customers its killing all big business right now.
To be honest Victoria's Secret was having issues long before the Pandemic started, so no shock there I'm afraid.
Yeah I think VS is gonna go out of business soon. I'm in Florida and malls are kinda dying lol
and that jcpenney was always "closing" forever
You could say it was no secret then!!
Money issues?
really ? i didnt know, they always look so busy and the lines was crazy
"it's diffenitly going to come back."
Young man, no, no it's not.
All of this is partly due to the coronavirus but its also been triggered by everything going online. There’s a seldom a need to visit a physical store or to work in an office anymore so the glut of merchant and office space will continue to grow not only in NYC but around the country as well.
And most of those retailers -Vitoria's Secret, GAP, Express- have either gone into bankruptcy or are about to. And this was before Covid. It's a sign of the times.
@@lindagarrido4353 the interesting thing to witness will be what happens next with all these empty spaces. There is a ton of opportunity to reimagine the space as something more than a brick and mortar retail store but it will take some creativity.
Cheaper for those companies to be online.
then why down south is business booming even with an online rush?
@@TheJadagames Tourists
Listen, I live in Atlanta and I'm house hunting. I talked to a new home sales specialist yesterday and he said there's been several clients from New York and New Jersey buying homes here. Lots of Northerners moving south were they can get more for the money and better quality of life. It's driving the price of homes sales up.
The greed
Atlanta? talk about out of the frying pan into the fire.
Atlanta though will never be a trade off for NYC..... so long as society begins to prosper, NY will always be the place to live.
Decline in NY, shows a worldwide decline.
fuck the south...thats a mistake anyone comin from ny...dont go south of mason dixon line ...people are off down south..i wont ever do it again
@@LITMOVIESCENES Not to mention jobs don't pay as well in the south. I live in Florida working two jobs 16+ hours a day working on getting my money right. Yet we still get heavy tourism, especially in the Panhandle where I live, and everyone is screaming for help, but nobody wants to work. Sad.
New York used to have the third least office availability in the US. Now I wonder what spot they are
This is happening in Florida too. Malls are dying. Internet shopping is taking over. I'm so sad because I love malls but covid really hurt tons of these businesses.
Where are you from
@Robyn Stephens Malls have been dying long before this pandemic, it just puts the final nail in the coffin.
It was a plannedemic ! All for power - but we are not gods - only Jesus! John 2:1
@@lauraswihart8018 hello
Not here in Atlanta.
Brick and mortar stores will slowly but surely start to disappear across the country. Online shopping has taken over.
Hopefully they can be replaced with community centers parks ponds etc
Second hand stores will probably stay. I can't see Goodwill going anywhere.
That is very sad to be honest, I always loved going to the mall
Yep it sick and sad. 😭
@@potblack6043 Goodwill, The Salvation Army, and any other mom-n-pop thrift stores are definitely here to stay, now more than ever.
1:16 "This was The GAP". Now is the empty GAP. Bad joke 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Seems like a bone head move on the part of that landlord. Wonder how long they will sit empty.
A city that never sleep is laid to rest😴
R.I.P New York New York
if you make stealing legal what do you expect
I honestly don't think NYC will return to what it used to be before Covid.
It’s a Worldwide PHENOMENON! It’s OVER!
@@Aeon1019 Not worldwide. Ironically, China barely suffered.
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@ruggedrider7 I can’t agree with you more. Unless NYC can be taken over by Republicans in office it won’t return what it once was. Deblasio is a big issue but I think the bigger issue is Cuomo.
@@michelleklotz2245 that’ll never happen. Unfortunately. NYC could use another Giuliani
Amazon and online shopping in general has decimated big name shopping franchises like Macy’s in terms of profits from IRL shops.
That was the case before the Pandemic too. Just sped up a problem retail was in denial about.
Thank you Jordan for covering this authentically. This is very refreshing!
Leaving NYC next month. Expected to live here a while longer, even forever at one point, but this city has gone south. Quality of life down, cost (taxes, etc.) up. Can get so much more out of life elsewhere at this point.
@@villanelle529 I considered Florida and thought I'd choose to go there last year, but I ended up going with a different no-tax state out west.
Covid has changed office forever, and I hope it will be for good, all those office spaces can be converted into apartments or something else better.
The entire Wall Street office area was converted to residential years ago. There are extremely few "Wall Street" firms located on Wall St. now.
Who will be moving into those apartments? They will be empty just like everything else.
Yeah I think they'll be converted as well
Born and bred NYC native. I lived in Chelsea until 9 years old and Inwood Manhattan for 10 years with a few years in Brooklyn and 10 years in nearby NJ. I left in 2010 and am actually considering moving back.
It might be kinda cool living in a ghost town.
I don't see how most businesses make it in NYC where the rents are soo high. Most of the time when I see videos on NYC there are hardly any customers in the stores. I'm totally baffled. As for all of those empty spaces, there's plenty of room for the new world order to take over. :)
Some of the high end places (watches for example) open them in prime locations to showcase their brand. The retail sales aren't meant to cover the rent and salaries, just defray them somewhat.
@@hewitc You know, non of the people I know wear watches, they're like me, I pull my phone out, and there's the time. :)
@@texashsad I wear a watch. The only reason young people don't wear watches is they don't know how to tell time. Coworkers constantly ask me the time and we have a clock on the wall! They go to the computer so they can read it digitally. So sad....
@@l.5832 Funny.. :)
Behind every fortune is a Crime, especially when you’re earning a New York Dime.
The pandemic might have sped up the decline of brick and mortar clothing stores, but online shopping has definitely been chipping away at them for years.
I’m not a liberal and I’m not a conservative, I am just me. Don’t care about or want to support any political movement, social agenda, etc. however, it seems like the cities and states that have gone Uber liberal and are just completely submissive to letting the city/ state do whatever they want have gone to crap. Look at California, look at Seattle, look at NYC. Thanks to the CV lockdowns private and small businesses and freedoms have been destroyed for good. The state doesn’t take more power from the people and just give it back once the “crisis” is over. Something no one is talking about is how the past year we have seen the consolidation of power and money into the hands of a small group of monopolies and wealth family, at an unprecedented rate.
Bingo!!! Exactly! The left is destroying all of the sanctuary cities.....lived here all my life. And it’s become a ghost town
"...just got worse"... NYC has kinda been on a downslide for quite some time, but I still love it here.
Hmmm...I wonder why?
Same I’m not leaving
I still love New York. I left during the pandemic, and I am about to move back. The City will come back soon enough.
You're lucky to live in New York 😌
I wish you all New Yorkers a greater life ❤️
@@CashJordan Wouldn't live in NYC for any reason
Gotta love the exposed sewer pipe in the bedrooms. Hope they never leak!
Sure be a lot easier to fix
People actually from NYC aren't going anywhere, you transplants can go wherever you want. Whenever the situation changes, transplants are the first people to leave and seek out other cities. We NYers are tired of the commercialization of our city, our neighborhoods being gentrified by yuppy transplants, the rising cost of living and these hard left mayors and governors who want to give everything away for free. Let's bring mom and pop businesses back, let's bring diners back, let's bring artists back. Then when everything becomes hip again, you transplants can crawl back and claim you're NYers again.
The greedy Landlord probably lived in that second apartment... One morning, he banged his head on that huge pole while getting out of the tub... The poor guy hasn’t been the same ever since. 😳🙄🤦🏻♀️
OK I ADMIT IT i used to go to jc penny in that manhattan mall
I used to go to Steve and barrys thanks to seventeen magazine lml oh the good ole days.
Wow I knew it was spelled that way !! I worked there for years... But looking at history it's always been spelled jc Penney
And I remember fruit loops and jiffy peanut butter and febreeze......not froot loops or jif or febreze
I remember the lion shall lie with the lamb.....not the wolf ...!!!
@@janetmottley973 oh my !!! I hadn’t realize the spelling difference. Thanks! You are right
The side-effects of a pandemic. Job losses, government being stingy with our taxes- letting the poor be evicted, mental health not being addressed by health insurances as needed,...and the list keeps growing. The ripple effects with be felt for a while.
It has nothing to do with the pandemic. It's the lockdowns.
Coffee (non dunkin' donuts) + Cash Jordan videos+ Working from home 🏠= Awesome Vibes 😎
I’ve never cared for their coffee either!
@@beanqween9458 totally 100%
And their donuts
My cousin said she saw him in New York, the videos and photos don’t do this guy justice. She said he was drop dead gorgeous.
Is he all right if you say so no honestly I believe you I do no I really do ha ha 😠😬😡😯😯😯😈😈
I think he's gorgeous from his videos. Would probably faint if I met him in real life.
@@anonnymous4684 he will pick you up.
@@thezmanchar I.think ..Therefore I am des cart es
The big corporations know there will soon be a precipitous drop in the population. Less people means less stores.
My money is still on New York for a come back unlike San Francisco and Los Angeles. Chicago's downtown will limp along to recovery but it'll be much slower than New York.
It's cyclical. Just look at the history.
I’m still bummed that McDonald’s near the port authority and next to ripleys is gone. When I was a broke bish tryna chase a dream and getting off the greyhound that would be my first food stop. Even up to the pandemic and its closing, I’d go there when I was in the area cause of nostalgia.
We are all a broke bish getting our life at that McDonalds! I’m actually sad it’s closed🥲
You mean the big, 2-level McDonald's!? Wow. Well....in a sense it was a tourist annoyance and very hectic at the floor level (including harassment via strangers and not very good orders from young adults. But....)
It's a lot of greed here in NYC
There's a McDonald's one block away on West 43rd St.& 8th Ave.
wasnt that open 24/7? so there is no mcdonalds in times square now?
This is actually a good thing because New York City has always been way too crowded. I got sick of always seeing film of crowds of people flowing down all sidewalks to where you couldn't even see sidewalk. Now, it finally looks like a nice, normal city. Let's hope it never goes back to the way it was.
I'm from NY and agree let the snow and covid birds permanently move to Florida or wherever they wanted to go
@@Gigatheologian They have moved here to Florida now the New Yorkers have caused our rent to increase by 40% . Us natives can’t even afford it here anymore.
My heart is broken. I left the city because I thought my daughter would be better off in suburban schools. A tragic mistake because New York was home to me, I never felt comfortable in the suburbs. I decided to try to get back to the city, then Covid changed everything . My city is gone. I will never be home again.
Never leave. You can seldom get back unless you have money. I thought about leaving London to get more for the little money I had a few years' ago, but my finances improved and I was able to stay.
Tina I feel the same way. I started planning to move to New York when I was 10, from a small midwest town where I was miserable. I moved there when I was 16, on a dance scholarship, and felt more freedom and joy than I had ever known. New York was paradise to me for 30 years. Then I lost my job, my landlord raised my rent by 500 dollars a month, what little savings I had didn't last until I could find a new job, and POOF, just like that, I was back in that same place I worked so hard to escape. Now the city is not the one I left. It is heartbreaking.
It will, COVID can kill people but it can’t kill capitalism.
I would be ashamed to show it. That landlord is crazy.
Maybe NYC will return to its 1970s and 80s form. Upside is we could see another Warriors film made.
the price is crazy...... its not even worth $2500 !!!!! But I
know its your job...