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Young, hip New Yorkers are bringing Midtown back

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Move over, Williamsburg. Here comes … Midtown?

The skyscraper-laden district stretching from 34th Street to Central Park South was disemboweled by the pandemic and continues to bleed office tenants. But while older office towers languish, young home buyers have flocked to the neighborhood, eager to take advantage of prices that haven’t soared like they have in the rest of Manhattan and much of Brooklyn.

The pandemic accelerated a pre-pandemic trend of hipper residents moving to Midtown, as stodgy bankers and executives moved away, usually for bigger spaces elsewhere in the city or ...

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