[screye]

NYC is deceptive. It's dense, so you don't realize you're crossing a city's worth of people in a 10 minute walk. Median studios in Beverly hills being $6k wouldn't surprise anyone. The Tribeca-Greenwich-West village-Chelsea stretch effectively the same.

Walk a few minutes north from there, and you'll reach hell's kitchen. Much much cheaper.

[ghaff]

Is it these days? It's gentrified a lot. Not staying there on my next trip, in part because I sort of fell out of love with the place I was accustomed to staying. But I've stayed around 10th and 42nd a lot.