“Manhattan is not like most places. Its 1.6 million residents hide in a forest of tall buildings, and even the city’s elite take the subway. Middle-class neighborhoods do not really exist in Manhattan — probably the only place in the United States where a $5.5 million condo with a teak closet and mother-of-pearl wall tile shares a block with a public housing project. In a city like New York, where everything is superlative, who exactly is middle class? What kind of salary are we talking about? Where does a middle-class person live? And could the relentless rise in real estate prices push the middle class to extinction?”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100393079
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