Total high-activity segments
16,445
All boroughs · weekday PM · above 500 threshold
Manhattan's share
63.7%
10,474 segments · mean PM 1,175
Rent range (1BR, neighborhoods)
$1,400–$13k
Annadale SI → Midtown Manhattan
Bronx vs Lower Manhattan
2.4×
$2,092 vs $5,016 avg neighborhood rent
Pedestrian PM activity by borough
Mean + max pedestrian count, weekday PM peak · segments above 500 only
Segment count
Mean PM
Average neighborhood rent by borough group
Mean asking rent across all neighborhood listings · sorted high to low
15 most expensive neighborhoods
By asking rent · size of listing pool noted
15 most affordable neighborhoods
By asking rent · includes low-count markets
Notable anomalies & outliers
Extreme outlier
$12,082
Franklin St (Tribeca) 2BR mean — nearly 3× the borough average. Ultra-luxury tower concentration near the subway distorts the signal.
Pedestrian gap
3,398 vs 1,808
Manhattan's max PM count (id 178210) vs Queens' max. Manhattan's ceiling is 88% higher — a scale difference no other borough approaches.
Data anomaly
$13,000 — n=1
"Midtown" neighborhood asks $13k but has only 1 listing. Likely a single ultra-luxury unit skewing the neighborhood figure.
Brooklyn luxury creep
4 hoods ≥ $4,500
DUMBO ($5,300), Downtown Brooklyn ($4,500), Boerum Hill ($4,500) and Brooklyn Heights ($4,362) now rival or beat Upper Manhattan pricing.
Staten Island gap
16 segments
Staten Island has virtually no high-activity pedestrian zones. 16 segments vs 10,474 in Manhattan. Car-dependent urban form visible in data.
Outer borough plateau
700–720 PM mean
Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx all cluster at nearly identical mean PM counts (699–720) despite very different geographies and densities.
What to watch — and why
North Brooklyn rent vs Manhattan: With 4 neighborhoods already above $4,500 and the area showing strong pedestrian activity, North Brooklyn is on a convergence path with Lower Manhattan pricing.
Subway-adjacency premium in FiDi/Tribeca: Station-level 2BR means at Franklin St ($12,082), Chambers St ($11,736), and Canal St ($11,938) far exceed neighborhood-level averages ($5,016 for Lower Manhattan), signaling hyper-concentration of luxury supply within walking distance of transit.
South Bronx affordability floor: Melrose ($1,550), Longwood ($1,665), Parkchester ($1,595) represent the city's true affordability floor. Watch for displacement signals if North Brooklyn overflow continues pushing renters eastward.
Queens pedestrian outlier at pm=1,450: Segment id 275567 near Kew Gardens/Richmond Hill recorded 1,450 PM — nearly double the borough mean. This could indicate an unreported commercial cluster or a transit interchange worth ground-truthing.
W. Queens rent spike: Western Queens neighborhoods (Astoria $2,995, LIC area $2,500) average $3,258 — 38% above the rest of Queens. This premium could widen further, particularly near Court Sq and Queens Plaza stations.