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Reader support makes Gothamist’s local journalism possible. For our spring membership campaign, we’re looking for 250 new Gothamist members by the end of the month. Make a donation to support Gothamist and local news today.The median asking rent for a Manhattan apartment is $700 less than what it was at the start of last year. In Queens, the average rent has dropped below $2,000 for the first time in eight years. And in Brooklyn, rents have fallen 10% since early 2020, the largest year-over-year drop in borough history.The findings, taken from StreetEasy's first quarter market released on Friday, offer the latest look at the pandemic's historic impact on rent prices. As the city begins to reopen, the data suggests that prices are unlikely to bounce back to pre-COVID levels anytime soon."I think we're getting near the bottom of the market, and I think we'll be at the bottom for quite awhile," Nancy Wu, an economist with StreetEasy, told Gothamist. "We’re in for a long recovery."The findings come as lease signings in Manhattan in the last quarter of last year, amid other indications that the market was in the city. Activity is expected to further heat up this summer.But Wu predicts that prices will remain lower than usual for at least another year. "There's no need to rush to sign a new lease immediately," she told Gothamist. "Good deals will be there in the next year."The clearest evidence for that may be the city's inventory, which has roughly doubled in the three boroughs examined by StreetEasy. On the Upper East Side, where rents have fallen 14%, the number of listings is over 5,000, compared to just 1,750 last year.The one-time reductions offered by landlords at the start of the pandemic are also still widely available; roughly a quarter of Brooklyn and Queens listings, and an eye-popping 44% of apartments in Manhattan, include at least one month free rent, according to the report.The slide has been , particularly those populated by highly-mobile young professionals, who were during the pandemic. But while lower-income neighborhoods have seen the smallest declines, rents have dropped just about everywhere."Until we get all the population that has moved out of the city to come back, we’re still going to see rents at pretty low levels," Wu said.Do you know the scoop? &nbsp; below orBack to Top

Reader support makes Gothamist’s local journalism possible. For our spring membership campaign, we’re looking for 250 new Gothamist members by the end of the month. Make a donation to support Gothamist and local news today.The median asking rent for a Manhattan apartment is $700 less than what it was at the start of last year. In Queens, the average rent has dropped below $2,000 for the first time in eight years. And in Brooklyn, rents have fallen 10% since early 2020, the largest year-over-year drop in borough history.The findings, taken from StreetEasy's first quarter market released on...

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