Attention: Most NYC Dwellers Make Far Less Than $250,000 A Year

[marasinghe]

23. let's balance this with Manhattan's Chinatown ....

where a waiter, waitress, kitchen worker, store worker, or a manual worker (plenty of them illegal, but quite a number of them US born citizens) gets paid $10 per day, plus tips & meals for the restaurant workers. Tips which, in most cheap restaurants add upto a yearly average of around $25 per day. which gives them less than $10,000 a year; enough to doss out at night in sleeping bags, on the floors of large open halls in 40 year-old buildings, with 2 toilets at each end of the floor for 50 people's use, at a rate of $3 per sleeping space per night.

i'm not gonna quote figures for certain neighborhoods in Harlem, the Bronx, Queens & Staten Island, where moving to Chinatown might be considered an improvement.

you won't see the Mayor's machine quoting these stats. i know these figures direct from friends & acquaintances who live them.