The Manhattan rental market is hotter than ever. Again. The median rent for a brokered Manhattan apartment reached $4,700 in July, a 9.3 percent change from a year earlier, according to the newest report from Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel. It’s a new record for the borough, the fifth in the last six months.  The record prices come amid a mayoral race that has been notably focused on housing affordability. Frontrunners Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo blast each other not only on their housing plans but also on their personal living situations, no reprieve from high rents is expected to […]

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