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WITH FEW AFFORDABLE NEIGHBORHOODS, MANY ARTISTS ARE FLEEING NEW YORK CITY

Artists have long struggled in New York, moving into rough areas, gentrifying them and then getting forced out, Crain’s observes.

But as the city has gotten increasingly expensive, there are few such neighborhoods left to move to, forcing a growing number of artists to abandon the city.

Although there are no official numbers, a survey of 1,000 artists conducted in 2009 by the New York Foundation for the Arts found that more than 43 percent expected their annual income to drop by 26-50 percent over the next six months, and 11 percent believed they would have to leave New York within six months.

Even more troubling, cultural boosters say, is that for the first time, artists fresh out of art schools around the country are choosing to live in nascent artist communities in regional cities such as Detroit and Cleveland–which are dangling incentives to attract this group–and bypassing New York altogether.

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The listing broker appealingly staged this UWS apartment himself.

When a property has been staged, you almost always know as soon as you walk in.

One way you can tell immediately is if the placed is overdressed–too much stylish furniture well placed and too many objéts that are exactly right for the space. There might be a gorgeous throw draped all too casually over the arm of a sofa, a dainty flower in a bud vase on the bathroom vanity, a bottle of wine flanked by crystal goblets.