What it costs to live
by yourself in Queens
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
A new report is asking the question:
how much does it really cost to be
single in New York City?
StreetEasy recently released a
report that explored what the cost
of living was for single New Yorkers
by looking at where there were
apartments for singles, and where the
highest number of singles were in the
city.
According to the report, singles in
New York City who live alone pay a
huge “singles tax.” Queens singles pay
$11,100 in taxes, followed by Brooklyn
and Manhattan, where singles pay
$13,170 and $16,500, respectively.
StreetEasy believes that the reason
the taxes are so high is because the
singles are living in the city’s priciest
neighborhoods that offer studio and
one-bedroom units.
The study found that Long Island
City was among the neighborhoods
that offered the most amount of studios
and one-bedroom units for singles
throughout the city. With a median
rent price of $2,795, studios and onebedroom
units take up 69 percent of
the apartment shares.
The study also took a look at the
neighborhoods that had the highest
number of never-married singles
living by themselves in New York City.
While Queens didn’t make the top 10
neighborhoods with the highest number
New York-born of singles, Springfield
Gardens had the highest number in the
borough, with 33 percent. Among the
top neighborhoods in Queens that had
the highest number of singles that were
born in New York include Brookville
(30 percent), St. Albans (29 percent),
the Rockaways (29 percent) and South
Jamaica (28 percent).
Out-of-state New York transplants,
however, saw lower numbers of single
people living in Queens.
While Astoria had the highest amount
of unmarried New Yorkers that were
born out-of-state at 11 percent, the other
top neighborhoods were not far behind
with 10 percent in Long Island City, 9
percent in Jamaica Hills, 6 percent in
Sunnyside and 4 percent in Ridgewood.
Reach reporter Emily Davenport by
e-mail at edavenport@qns.com or by
phone at (718) 224-5863 ext. 236.
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