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Nah, that price per square foot is pretty high even by NYC standards (almost double what's typical for that neighborhood, which is expensive fore city as a whole but middle-high for Manhattan).

And one of the things you learn here pretty quickly is that you don't REALLY need all that much space. My first apartment was about 300 sqft, and a third of it went entirely unused. My current studio is probably 450, and while I have a ton more stuff now than I did then, the amount of space is more than adequate. I wouldn't know what to do with 1600 sqft even with a spouse and kids! Oh, and costs about 2/3 as much as that apartment, in an arguably nicer neighborhood in Brooklyn. /shrug

We each have our own priorities for what we're willing to pay for.