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How Much Does It Cost to Live in NYC?
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We asked young New Yorkers about their dream futures. Then we calculated exactly how much each would cost.
Illustration: Zohar Lazar; Photo: Busà Photography/Getty Images This article was featured in One Great Story , New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. You begin shopping for your future the moment you become an adult in New York City. Rich and well-furnished lives are aggressively paraded about. Parlor windows reveal Noguchi lamps the size of small horses, couples sit for brunch, families haul exploding bags of farmers’-market produce back to their lairs. People are furiously refreshing Resy to pay $27 for spaghetti pomodoro (!) and going, constantly, to M
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