David Crane and Marta Kauffmans “Friends” is one of the great sitcoms ever. The series was built by six incredibly appealing and talented young actors and offered a peppy portrait of Twentysometening/Thirty Years Generation X Ennui. His characters weren’t necessarily aimless, but they definitely didn’t have it together. What they had was, which was a weekly TV balm for the souls of many gene x-Er, which went through similar Tsuris in the 1990s and 2000s.
While the spectators around the world were able to refer to the fights of Monica (Courtney Cox), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Chandler (Matthew Perry), Ross (David Schwimmer), Joey (Matt Leblanc) and Phober (Lisa Kudrow) there were aspects of these characters. Sure, many of us knew what it was like to fight in a busy metropolis like New York City (I lived there during the highlight of the popularity of the series), but none of us could ever hope to beat it in a breathtakingly spacious apartment in the west village. As someone who hopped a lot of apartment during this time, I will tell you that I would have hit her in the face to humiliate myself to humiliate myself if a broker (whom I could not afford at all) showed a flat -like fan with Monica and Rachel’s place. This is a rich person’s apartment.
How rich? This is a question that many people have asked over the years, and although we cannot give them any precise numbers for fictional accommodations, we can increase. Prepare yourself to be amazed.
Monica and Rachel did not pay a market value for the apartment
According to architectural DigestMonica’s “Shabby Chic” and “Countrycore” apartment would have triggered a bidding war when it came onto the market. How did Monica land up to first -class real estate in Manhattan? Your grandmother illegally underpins it!
According to the canon of the show, the apartment is controlled, which means that the rent increases of the unit were adequately incremental in order not to drive the tenant (in this case Monica’s grandmother) from their place of residence and possibly on the streets. This means that Nana, who had withdrawn to Florida, had occupied this apartment for some time and, as a senior, collected the social security in the Sunshine (just like she as a hard-working American), probably did not have to charge her great value for the unity of the granddaughter-daughter market.
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Monica and Rachel fell 200,000 US dollars if they could afford their apartment
Architectural Digest quoted in 2024 that Real estate concierge Company Cleverin which the current statistics of the Ministry of Labor were used to determine that the inmates Rachel and Monica – who worked as a cook and waitress at the beginning of the series – earned $ 120,000 a year. Then they took up Apartment 12a in 136 Waverly Place in the West Village as a replacement for the unit (estimated between 1,125 and 1,500 quadrat foot) and decided that Monica and Rachel would have to move in at least $ 321,429 in order to enable the rent directly. If you wanted to buy the device, you would have to earn 782,379 US dollars to cover the 2.65 million US dollar that would correspond to it on today’s market. Apparently, Every member of the “friends” sposs Nowadays it could afford to buy the entire building.
If Crane and Kauffman had chosen a realistic approach for “friends”, they would have brought Monica and Rachel to a railway apartment somewhere in Alphabet City, which would have given the show a very grainy air that would probably not have advised people who would suffer their network -Sitcom settings as aspiration. In view of the circles, in which the gang “friends” has traveled, there would have been more jobs and an abundant cocaism. Because I lived in New York City at the time, I would have loved that. My guess, and it is only a guess that NBC frowned in such a representation.
