NYC is a spread of 5 administrative sections called boroughs; Manhattan is the smallest and Queens is the largest (5X landmass of Manhattan). 6X more people live in the 4 outer boroughs when compared to Manhattan.
Posts below, which mention cost, often talk about Manhattan. As you might have guessed, other boroughs tend to be cheaper and are well connected via Subway and MTA bus systems.
More than half of New Yorkers do not own a car (ref below), and even those who own patronise the public transport significantly for their work commute (no data, but personal experience from having lived there many years).
If you remove the car ownership, and strain on time and resources that come from living in the suburbs, living in NYC is cheaper, as long as you don't consider Manhattan alone as NYC.
Parts of other boroughs might be cheaper but the desirable parts of Brooklyn(Cobble Hill, DUMBO, Williamsburg, etc) and Queens(LIC) aren't any cheaper than Manhattan. There was a time when you could say Brooklyn was cheaper than Manhattan but that hasn't been true in a long time.
NYC is a spread of 5 administrative sections called boroughs; Manhattan is the smallest and Queens is the largest (5X landmass of Manhattan). 6X more people live in the 4 outer boroughs when compared to Manhattan.
Posts below, which mention cost, often talk about Manhattan. As you might have guessed, other boroughs tend to be cheaper and are well connected via Subway and MTA bus systems.
More than half of New Yorkers do not own a car (ref below), and even those who own patronise the public transport significantly for their work commute (no data, but personal experience from having lived there many years).
If you remove the car ownership, and strain on time and resources that come from living in the suburbs, living in NYC is cheaper, as long as you don't consider Manhattan alone as NYC.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borough_(New_York_City) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...
Edit: Typos and population.