So, anecdotally, I make just into the low six figure range and live in NYC,so income not that far off from that woman. Yes, there has been some noticeable increases in cost, namely rent and groceries, but that's it, and in the outer boroughs this was annoying, but not an economic catastrophe as this article tries to portray. My rent in Queens went up $200 from 2020 to 2022. Grocery bill went up about $100 per month too.

But I'm doing fine. I pay my rent and still save, but maybe just 10% less than pre pandemic. This article is the usual clickbait "NYC is going into an apocalypse of `1980s death" and nothing more. Yes, rents have skyrocketed in the trendy Manhattan neighborhoods that were already populated primarily by millionaires. But most neighborhoods, especially in the outer boroughs, experienced little to none of that. If you MUST live in, say, Chelsea or the Upper East Side, then yea, maybe you can't afford that like someone with a $100k salary could have in 2015. But you'd be fine in the rest of the city.