{"id":137404,"date":"2026-02-18T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137404\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:51:07","slug":"artists-say-rising-costs-in-queens-and-across-nyc-are-forcing-them-to-flee-expensive-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137404\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists say rising costs in Queens and across NYC are forcing them to flee expensive city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Artists from Queens and across New York City are struggling to sustain their livelihoods amid the growing affordability crisis, grappling with rising costs that are forcing them to leave and take their crafts with them.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nycfuture.org\/research\/integrating-artists-into-nycs-affordable-housing-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a January 2026 report by Center for an Urban Future<\/a>, the artist population in NYC has fallen 4.4% since 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/02\/affordability-crisis-artists-queens-nyc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tAffordability crisis: Artists say rising costs in Queens and across NYC are forcing them to flee expensive city &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Artists from Queens and across New York City are struggling to sustain their livelihoods amid the growing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-137404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}