Manhattan now has the worst income inequality of any county in the US.
Normally we talk about the top 1% or top 0.1% when talking about such things, but New York is next level. The top 20% of households earn a whopping $545,549 per year. Meanwhile the bottom 20% of households (some of which will have multiple adults) is a measly $10,259. That is according to 2022 census data, a year in which the problems of the pandemic should mostly be behind us.
Combine that with the famously high costs of housing and it is not surprising that some people with full-time jobs are homeless.
The post-COVID recovery is going great for some people, but not all. The NYT reports:
Unemployment is down, but remains sharply higher for Black and Hispanic New Yorkers. The mixed signals highlight a widening chasm: The city is recovering, but many of its residents are not.