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How a Family of 4 Lives on $225,000 a Year in Washington Heights

By Eliza Shapiro 

Photographs by Bess Adler May 25, 2026

How can people possibly afford to live in one of the most expensive cities on the planet? It’s a question New Yorkers hear a lot, often delivered with a mix of awe, pity and confusion.

We surveyed hundreds of New Yorkers about how they spend, splurge and save. We found that many people — rich, poor or somewhere in between — live life as a series of small calculations that add up to one big question: 

Ellen Hagan grew up in a small town in Kentucky, and moved to New York City as quickly as she could after she graduated from college. She arrived a few weeks before Sept. 11, and tried to get her bearings in a city turned upside down.

She found a group of fellow young artists and writers who wanted to take advantage of everything they could in the city, on very limited budgets. They went to poetry readings and dance parties, and rented tiny apartments in the East Village.

All the while, Ms. Hagan was diligent about saving money, even when she had very little of it.

“I didn’t know what I was saving for, but I knew I wasn’t going to have a job that would give me a pension,” she said. “I wanted to make enough money to live the New York existence I was dreaming of.”

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Memorial Service for Slain Ayatollah in NYC

By Liz Rattoballi
March 6, 2026



A woman gestures while holding an image of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the day of an anti-Israeli and U.S. rally, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 6, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY



(New York, NY) – After a weekend full of Iranian Americans celebrating the killing of Ayatollah Khomeini in the streets, now the mourners are taking over Washington Square Park. The vigil is being hosted by several left-wing activist groups including Crown Heights Bites Back and the Bronx Anti-War Coalition. The groups have held similar events for other notorious leaders from the Middle East including Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

In an Instagram post promoting the event, organizers say: “this vigil is a solemn reminder that Amerikan colonial violence is a singular evil”. Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, who could be facing censure by the council’s ethics committee, decried the event on social media.

Meanwhile, Operation Epic Fury continues in Iran. President Donald Trump says a ground incursion would be a waste of time. The Islamic Republic has been hit hard according to US officials, however Iran is still launching attacks using drones. Iran is vowing to retaliate after the US successfully sank an Iranian warship. There is still a power vacuum left after the death of Khomeini. The late Supreme Leader’s son has been selected as his replacement, but President Trump says that would be the worst possible choice and vows the US will play a role in choosing the future leader of Iran.


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Man Who Died In Trump Tower Fire Tried To Sell Apartment, Friend Says

April 9, 20183:24 AM ET

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Scott Neuman

A firefighter looks out from the window of a damaged apartment in Trump Tower in New York on Saturday.Craig Ruttle/AP

Todd Brassner, a 67-year-old art dealer who died in a fire in Trump Tower over the weekend, had reportedly been trying to sell his 50th-floor apartment there since President Trump was elected, The New York Times reports.

The newspaper said Brassner — who records show purchased the apartment in 1996 — wanted to get out after Trump's 2016 election brought "increased security and scrutiny to the building" but that he could not sell the apartment for what he thought it was worth — $2.5 million in 2015.

Brassner told musician and music producer Stephen Dwire that the situation at Trump Tower was becoming "untenable," according to the Times.

"It was like living in an armed camp. But when people heard it was a Trump building, he couldn't give it away," Dwire, a friend of Brassner's said.

Brassner lived amid a collection that included artwork, such as a 1975 portrait of him painted by Andy Warhol and other pieces by Robert Indiana, Mati Klarwein and author Jack Kerouac, as well as "about 100 vintage electric guitars, 40 guitar amplifiers dating to the 1930s [and] 150 ukuleles," the Times said.

In recent years, Brassner was "plagued with debilitating medical problems" that made it "difficult for him to function," according to The Associated Press.

Firefighters were still investigating the cause of Saturday's blaze, which also injured four firefighters.

Before the death was reported, the president on Saturday tweeted that the fire was out at Trump Tower — a "well built building," he said — and thanked firefighters.


He has not tweeted about the fire again since Brassner died shortly after being taken to the hospital on Saturday.

Trump Tower was built in 1983 and did not have sprinklers, which were not required by building codes at the time. However, after two deadly high-rise apartment fires in 1999, New York City enacted a law requiring them in new construction, while exempting sprinklers in existing buildings until or unless they underwent extensive renovations.

According to the Times, "Real estate developers, including Mr. Trump, fought the sprinklers, arguing that they were unnecessary and would add $4 per square foot to the cost of an apartment."

However, the newspaper notes that Trump changed his views on the subject, concluding later that tenants felt safer with sprinklers and that he subsequently spent $3 million to install them in the Trump World Tower near the United Nations building in New York.

The AP reports: "The city's Department of Buildings on Sunday said Trump Tower did have working hard-wired smoke detectors, and that the fire department was first notified of the blaze by the detectors in the building's heating and ventilation system. A cause had not yet been determined."

CorrectionApril 9, 2018

A previous version of this story misspelled Robert Indiana's name as Indian.

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Ownership of Churches: Congregation, Neighbors, or the City?

Christopher Lingle Janna Lu – July 22, 2023

Once a vibrant church with a storied past, West Park Presbyterian Church has found itself in a battle over property rights. Established in the Upper West Side of New York City in 1852, it supported the LGBT movement as it gained popularity in 1978, and delivered meals during the AIDS epidemic.

Now church attendance has dwindled to 12 members, and the church leaders and congregation want to sell the building and grounds. Neighbors, including some celebrities, oppose it on the grounds that the church gives value to the neighborhood and have voiced their opposition to the sale.

Since the church owns the entire property, its congregation and leadership think they should have a final say in what happens to the building. The NYC Landmark Preservation Commission, however, designated the church as a historical landmark in 2010, thereby blocking the wishes of the church leadership.

With such a small congregation they cannot afford to maintain and restore the property. As owners of the property, they want to reclaim their rights over it so they can legally trade or transfer the building.

A landmark designation “preserves and protects these properties from being demolished or significantly altered in a way that would detract from their historical or cultural value.” Built in the late 19th Century, the building has been described as “one of the best examples of a Romanesque Revival-style religious structure in New York City.”

When the Landmark Commission deliberated conferring landmark status to the church building in 2010, they believed the community would fund the needed renovations. But due to high estimates for renovation costs—the church leaders filed a petition to remove the landmark designation on hardship grounds in June 2022.

The church leadership was given an estimate for repair costs that exceed $50 million, including $17 million to repair the exterior. Over the past 7 years, the church has spent more than $1 million in repairs, funded by the sale of some assets, including a manse.