How much would Monica’s apartment cost today?

“Friends” by David Crane and Marta Kauffman is one of the great situation comedies of all time. Built around six young and talented young actors, the series offered a valuable portrait of twenty and so many years generation X Ennui. His characters were not necessarily aimless, but they definitely didn’t have it together. What they did was the one of the other, which was a weekly television balm that should see for the souls of many X-ert genes through similar tsuris in the 1990s and 2000s.

While spectators around the world could relate to Monica’s struggles (Courtney Cox), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Chandler (Matthew Perry), Ross (David Schwimmer), Joey (Matt Leblanc) and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), there were aspects of the life of these characters that were so difficult to carry. Of course, many of us knew what it was to fight to overcome in a bustling metropolis like New York City (I lived there during the top of the popularity of the series), but none of us could expect to hit him while living in an incredibly spacious apartment in West Village. As someone who made a good amount of apartments during that period, I will tell him that if a corridor (who could not pay in the first place) showed me a floor similar to the place of Monica and Rachel, would have hit them in the face for trying to humiliate me. That is the apartment of a rich person.

How rich? That is a question that many people have asked over the years, and although we cannot give exact numbers for fictional accommodations, we can the stadium. Prepare to be amazed.

According to Architectural DigestThe “Shabby Chic” and “Countrycore” apartment in Monica would have triggered a war of offers at the time it reached the market. So how did Monica land so well real estate of Manhattan? Your grandmother is underwater illegally!

According to the program of the program, the apartment is controlled by the rent, which means that the rental increases of the unit were reasonably incremental not to lead the tenant without money (in this case Monica’s grandmother) outside her residence and, potentially, to the streets. This means that Nana, who had retired to Florida, occupied this apartment for quite some time and, as a major citizen who collected Social Security in the state of the sun (as was her right as an American who was once a worker), she probably did not need to collect her market value of her granddaughter for the unit.

Once this factors are in the kingdom too good by Hollywood Entertainment, such as Adam Sandler’s unemployed protagonist in the beloved “Big Daddy” by Paul Thomas Anderson who lives in a Manhattan loft because he held a massive settlement of a minor accident. At this point, you should probably light and enjoy fantasy, which is easy to do because “Friends” was a constantly hilarious show with very few episodes of Dud. But you still need to know, right? Spoiler: Monica and Rachel would never have sniffed an apartment in Manhattan of that caliber.

In 2024, Architectural Digest cited the Intelligent Real Estate Conjection CompanyThat he used the Department of current Labor Statistics to determine that the occupants Rachel and Mónica, who worked, respectively, as chef and waitress at the beginning of the series, earned $ 120,000 a year combined. Then they concentrated on the 126 apartment in 136 Waverly Place in the West Village as a substitute for the unit (estimated somewhere between 1,125 and 1,500 square feet) and decided that Monica and Rachel would have had to reduce at least $ 321,429 combined to pay the rent directly. If they wanted to buy the unit, they would have to win $ 782,379 to cover the $ 2.65 million that it would look for in the current market. Obviously, any member of the cast of “Friends” could afford to buy the entire building today.

If Crane and Kauffman had adopted a realistic approach to “friends”, they would have placed Monica and Rachel in a railway apartment somewhere in Alphabet City, which would have lent to the program a decidedly sandy air that would probably not attracted the people who like their network comedy configuration to be aspirations. Taking into account the circles in which the gang of “friends” traveled, there would also have been more employment rotation and abundant use of cocaine. Again, because I lived in New York City at that time, I would have loved this. I suppose, and it is only an assumption, it is that NBC could have frowned with such representation.