{"id":291960,"date":"2026-07-10T00:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291960\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T00:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:17:54","slug":"netflix-star-blasted-over-joke-at-expense-of-nyc-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291960\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix star blasted over joke at expense of NYC homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cringing critics want this Netflix star to\u00a0address\u00a0her \u201ctone deaf\u201d mess.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jade Shenker, 30, a real estate agent with buzzy Big Apple brokerage Serhant \u2014\u00a0and a featured wheeler-and-dealer on streaming series \u201cOwning Manhattan\u201d \u2014\u00a0is being digitally dragged down the concrete for perceived slights against NYC\u2019s unhoused.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like the homeless people on the street are pretty comfortable,\u201d the gal about town casually quipped during a recent impromptu, curbside interview with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@girlswhosublet.nyc\/video\/7658783786682895647?_r=1&amp;_t=ZT-97tQKAuuBME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> \u201cGirls Who Sublet\u201d <\/a>\u2014 a virtual hub for gals seeking temporary lodging in Gotham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jade Shenker is under fire after making a few \u201cout of touch\u201d remarks about NYC\u2019s homeless population. Tiktok\/@ohana_nyc<\/p>\n<p>The controversy-making comments were prompted by a question regarding the high cost of living in Manhattan \u2014\u00a0and the \u201cminimum\u201d amount of money residents should earn in order to keep a decent roof over their heads. Median monthly rents in the borough have recently soared to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/15\/real-estate\/manhattan-median-rents-hit-record-high-with-nearly-10-increase-over-a-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a heartburn-giving $5,125<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Screengrabs of the streetside chat quickly reached viral infamy, garnering over 16 million views \u2014\u00a0and heaps of scorn from a slew of TikTok tut-tutters, who angrily labeled the blond businesswoman \u201cout of touch\u201d and \u201cgross.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shenker has previously told The Post that she works around the clock as a big business real estate agent in the city.  Brian Zak\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is so dystopian. I\u2019m genuinely afraid,\u201d said one freaked out commenter beneath the trending clip, reposted by Ohana NYC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is out of touch,\u201d spat another.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is horrifying. So tone deaf,\u201d wrote an unamused detractor, echoing the sentiments of equally irked onlookers who called Shenker \u201cinsufferable\u201d and \u201cbrain dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of NYC residents are living without shelter, according to alarming new data.   Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Shenker did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for a comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over 350,000 New Yorkers, including 30,955 children, were estimated to be without shelter in May 2026, per the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coalitionforthehomeless.org\/basic-facts-about-homelessness-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Coalition for the Homeless NYC<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate headcount came just weeks prior to the controversial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/30\/real-estate\/nyc-closes-midtown-easts-sole-homeless-drop-in-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shuttering of the Mainchance homeless drop-in center<\/a>\u00a0in Midtown East last month.<\/p>\n<p>Shenker had previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/29\/us-news\/serhant-of-netflixs-owning-manhattan-working-to-change-nyc-real-estate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bragged to The Post\u00a0<\/a>about her \u201c85 to 90-hour\u201d workweeks, and revealed that she doesn\u2019t pay rent \u2014\u00a0but instead depends on her boyfriend to handle their approximately $8,000 per month bill on a Financial District pad.<\/p>\n<p>The ritzy realtor further boasted over the handsome salary she commands by \u201cselling buildings,\u201d across the boroughs, claiming her income ranges from \u201cas low as $70,000 to as high as $1 million.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the seemingly smug revelation\u00a0earned her additional scorn from the social media mudslingers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is actually insane,\u201d barked a faultfinder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a terrible way to be,\u201d another scolded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a real estate agent in NYC,\u201d chimed another. \u201cI promise we are not all like this.\u00a0\u00a0Some of us are actually good people who care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cringing critics want this Netflix star to\u00a0address\u00a0her \u201ctone deaf\u201d mess.\u00a0 Jade Shenker, 30, a real estate agent with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1214,2000,232,75,84,83,237,2451,9,24,63,5045,9740,1688],"class_list":["post-291960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-celebrities","tag-homelessness","tag-lifestyle","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-money","tag-netflix","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-ryan-serhant","tag-tiktok","tag-viral-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291960","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=291960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}