{"id":320228,"date":"2026-08-13T10:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320228\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:06:35","slug":"manhattan-average-rent-hits-record-6655-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320228\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Average Rent Hits Record $6,655 A Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-01-19t194205z_1610618417_rc2i4jabkela_rtrmadp_3_usa-mlk-new-york-8.webp\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"mlk-day-commemoration-event-at-national-action-network-in-new-york-12\" wpb-att-id=\"480379\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-01-19t194205z_1610618417_rc2i4jabkela_rtrmadp_3_usa-mlk-new-york-8.webp\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"mlk-day-commemoration-event-at-national-action-network-in-new-york-12\" wpb-att-id=\"480379\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-01-19t194205z_1610618417_rc2i4jabkela_rtrmadp_3_usa-mlk-new-york-8.webp\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"mlk-day-commemoration-event-at-national-action-network-in-new-york-12\" wpb-att-id=\"480379\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"featuredImageCaption\">NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to guests during commemoration of MLK day at the National Action Network in New York City, U.S., January 19, 2026.  REUTERS\/Eduardo Munoz<\/p>\n<p>(New York, NY) \u2013 Manhattan\u2019s average monthly rent has climbed to a record $6,655, another sign of how punishing New York City\u2019s housing market has become for tenants.<\/p>\n<p>The figure comes from new reporting tied to Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group and underscores the pressure facing renters even as city leaders debate new housing and tax policies.<\/p>\n<p>The record is likely to intensify the affordability debate around Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose housing agenda has become a central issue in City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>For many New Yorkers, the question is no longer whether Manhattan is expensive, but who can still realistically afford to live there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to guests during commemoration of MLK day at the National Action Network in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-320228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320228","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=320228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}