New York Election Live Results 2024

Published

1 year ago

November 5, 2024

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Thomas SchiavoniT. SchiavoniSchiavoni Democrat 56%

Stephen KielyS. KielyKiely Republican 44%

81%

Jodi GiglioJ. GiglioGiglioincumbent Republican 65%

Tricia ChiaramonteT. ChiaramonteChiaramonte Democrat 35%

84%

Joseph De StefanoJ. De StefanoDe Stefanoincumbent Republican 61%

Trina MilesT. MilesMiles Democrat 39%

71%

Rebecca KassayR. KassayKassay Democrat 50.4%

Edward FloodE. FloodFloodincumbent Republican 49.6%

58%

Douglas SmithD. SmithSmithincumbent Republican 65%

Michael ReynoldsM. ReynoldsReynolds Democrat 35%

73%

Philip RamosP. RamosRamosincumbent Democrat 65%

Daniel MitolaD. MitolaMitola Republican 35%

61%

Jarett GandolfoJ. GandolfoGandolfoincumbent Republican 63%

Garrett PetersenG. PetersenPetersen Democrat 37%

80%

Michael FitzpatrickM. FitzpatrickFitzpatrickincumbent Republican 66%

Steven BasileoS. BasileoBasileo Democrat 34%

85%

Michael DursoM. DursoDursoincumbent Republican 66%

Steven DellaVecchiaS. DellaVecchiaDellaVecchia Democrat 34%

73%

Steve SternS. SternSternincumbent Democrat 56%

Aamir SultanA. SultanSultan Republican 44%

75%

Kwani O’PharrowK. O’PharrowO’Pharrow Democrat 50.2%

Joseph CardinaleJ. CardinaleCardinale Republican 49.8%

71%

Keith BrownK. BrownBrownincumbent Republican 57%

Thomas CoxT. CoxCox Democrat 43%

81%

Charles LavineC. LavineLavineincumbent Democrat 57%

Ruka AnzaiR. AnzaiAnzai Republican 43%

51%

David McDonoughD. McDonoughMcDonoughincumbent Republican 60%

Ellen Lederer DeFrancescoE. Lederer DeFrancescoLederer DeFrancesco Democrat 40%

51%

Jake BlumencranzJ. BlumencranzBlumencranzincumbent Republican 55%

William MurphyW. MurphyMurphy Democrat 45%

54%

Gina SillittiG. SillittiSillittiincumbent Democrat 51%

Daniel NorberD. NorberNorber Republican 49%

66%

John MikulinJ. MikulinMikulinincumbent Republican 62%

Harpreet ToorH. ToorToor Democrat 38%

44%

Noah BurroughsN. BurroughsBurroughs Democrat 85%

Danielle SmikleD. SmikleSmikle Republican 15%

44%

Edward RaE. RaRaincumbent Republican 64%

Sanjeev JindalS. JindalJindal Democrat 36%

80%

Eric BrownE. BrownBrownincumbent Republican 63%

Tina PosterliT. PosterliPosterli Democrat 37%

57%

Judy GriffinJ. GriffinGriffin Democrat 55%

Brian CurranB. CurranCurranincumbent Republican 45%

51%

Michaelle SolagesM. SolagesSolagesincumbent Democrat 64%

Ian BergstromI. BergstromBergstrom Republican 36%

45%

Stacey Pheffer AmatoS. Pheffer AmatoPheffer Amatoincumbent Democrat 51%

Thomas SullivanT. SullivanSullivan Republican 49%

87%

David WeprinD. WeprinWeprinincumbent Democrat 61%

Ruben CruzR. CruzCruz Republican 36%

75%

Nily RozicN. RozicRozicincumbent Democrat 53%

Kenneth PaekK. PaekPaek Republican 47%

69%

Edward BraunsteinE. BraunsteinBraunsteinincumbent Democrat 68%

Robert SperanzaR. SperanzaSperanza Conservative 32%

74%

Sam BergerS. BergerBergerincumbent Democrat 57%

Angelo KingA. KingKing Republican 43%

79%

Andrew HevesiA. HevesiHevesiincumbent Democrat 58%

Jonathan RinaldiJ. RinaldiRinaldi Republican 42%

83%

Alicia HyndmanA. HyndmanHyndmanincumbent Democrat 86%

Dwayne MooreD. MooreMoore Republican 14%

78%

Steven RagaS. RagaRagaincumbent Democrat 60%

Brandon CastroB. CastroCastro Republican 40%

74%

Khaleel AndersonK. AndersonAndersonincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Vivian CookV. CookCookincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Clyde VanelC. VanelVanelincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Jessica Gonzalez-RojasJ. Gonzalez-RojasGonzalez-Rojasincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Larinda HooksL. HooksHooks Democrat

Uncontested

Zohran MamdaniZ. MamdaniMamdaniincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Claire ValdezC. ValdezValdez Democrat

Uncontested

Jenifer RajkumarJ. RajkumarRajkumarincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Catalina CruzC. CruzCruzincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Ron KimR. KimKimincumbent Democrat 55%

Philip WangP. WangWang Republican 45%

67%

Kalman YegerK. YegerYeger Democrat

Uncontested

Rodneyse BichotteR. BichotteBichotteincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Brian CunninghamB. CunninghamCunninghamincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Robert CarrollR. CarrollCarrollincumbent Democrat 85%

John BennettJ. BennettBennett Republican 15%

91%

Michael NovakhovM. NovakhovNovakhovincumbent Republican 50.5%

Joey Cohen-SabanJ. Cohen-SabanCohen-Saban Democrat 49.5%

75%

Alec Brook-KrasnyA. Brook-KrasnyBrook-Krasnyincumbent Republican 53%

Chris McCreightC. McCreightMcCreight Democrat 47%

75%

William ColtonW. ColtonColtonincumbent Democrat 61%

David SepiashviliD. SepiashviliSepiashvili Republican 39%

72%

Simcha EichensteinS. EichensteinEichensteinincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Lester ChangL. ChangChangincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Emily GallagherE. GallagherGallagherincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Marcela MitaynesM. MitaynesMitaynesincumbent Democrat 77%

Erik FrankelE. FrankelFrankel Republican 23%

67%

Jo Anne SimonJ. SimonSimonincumbent Democrat 94%

Brett WynkoopB. WynkoopWynkoop Conservative 6%

>95%

Maritza DavilaM. DavilaDavilaincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Erik DilanE. DilanDilanincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Latrice WalkerL. WalkerWalkerincumbent Democrat 92%

Berneda JacksonB. JacksonJackson Republican 8%

63%

Stefani ZinermanS. ZinermanZinermanincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Phara ForrestP. ForrestForrestincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Monique Chandler-WatermanM. Chandler-WatermanChandler-Watermanincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Jaime WilliamsJ. WilliamsWilliamsincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Nikki LucasN. LucasLucasincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Charles FallC. FallFallincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Michael ReillyM. ReillyReillyincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Sam PirozzoloS. PirozzoloPirozzoloincumbent Republican 58%

Matthew MobiliaM. MobiliaMobilia Democrat 42%

80%

Michael TannousisM. TannousisTannousisincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Grace LeeG. LeeLeeincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Deborah GlickD. GlickGlickincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Linda RosenthalL. RosenthalRosenthalincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Edward GibbsE. GibbsGibbsincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Micah LasherM. LasherLasher Democrat

Uncontested

Jordan WrightJ. WrightWright Democrat 91%

Seson AdamsS. AdamsAdams Republican 9%

72%

Al TaylorA. TaylorTaylorincumbent Democrat 87%

Joziel AndujarJ. AndujarAndujar Republican 13%

68%

Manny De Los SantosM. De Los SantosDe Los Santosincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Alex BoresA. BoresBoresincumbent Democrat 74%

Awadhesh GuptaA. GuptaGupta Republican 26%

91%

Harvey EpsteinH. EpsteinEpsteinincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Tony SimoneT. SimoneSimoneincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Rebecca SeawrightR. SeawrightSeawrightincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Landon DaisL. DaisDaisincumbent Democrat 75%

Norman Sobe McGillN. McGillMcGill Republican 21%

57%

George AlvarezG. AlvarezAlvarezincumbent Democrat 74%

John SantiagoJ. SantiagoSantiago Republican 26%

62%

Chantel JacksonC. JacksonJacksonincumbent Democrat 80%

Sharon DarbyS. DarbyDarby Republican 16%

58%

John ZaccaroJ. ZaccaroZaccaroincumbent Democrat 68%

Nicholas MarriccoN. MarriccoMarricco Republican 27%

73%

Jeffrey DinowitzJ. DinowitzDinowitzincumbent Democrat 77%

Kevin PazminoK. PazminoPazmino Republican 23%

84%

Michael BenedettoM. BenedettoBenedettoincumbent Democrat 69%

Juan De la CruzJ. De la CruzDe la Cruz Republican 31%

90%

Carl HeastieC. HeastieHeastieincumbent Democrat 89%

Stephanie LiggioS. LiggioLiggio Republican 11%

74%

Amanda SeptimoA. SeptimoSeptimoincumbent Democrat 77%

Rosaline NievesR. NievesNieves Republican 20%

59%

Emerita TorresE. TorresTorres Democrat 79%

Kelly AtkinsonK. AtkinsonAtkinson Republican 18%

61%

Yudelka TapiaY. TapiaTapiaincumbent Democrat 75%

Woodrow Hines, Jr.W. Hines, Jr.Hines, Jr. Republican 23%

57%

Karines ReyesK. ReyesReyesincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Amy PaulinA. PaulinPaulinincumbent Democrat 61%

Thomas FixT. FixFix Republican 39%

23%

Gary PretlowG. PretlowPretlowincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Nader SayeghN. SayeghSayeghincumbent Democrat 55%

John IsaacJ. IsaacIsaac Republican 45%

13%

Steven OtisS. OtisOtisincumbent Democrat 62%

Katie MangerK. MangerManger Republican 38%

17%

MaryJane ShimskyM. ShimskyShimskyincumbent Democrat 59%

Alessandro CroccoA. CroccoCrocco Republican 41%

18%

Chris BurdickC. BurdickBurdickincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Matthew SlaterM. SlaterSlaterincumbent Republican 64%

Zachary CouzensZ. CouzensCouzens Democrat 36%

70%

Dana LevenbergD. LevenbergLevenbergincumbent Democrat 60%

Michael CapalboM. CapalboCapalbo Republican 40%

29%

Patrick CarrollP. CarrollCarroll Democrat 58%

Ronald DizR. DizDiz Republican 42%

80%

John McGowanJ. McGowanMcGowanincumbent Republican 50%

Aron WiederA. WiederWieder Democrat 46%

63%

Karl BrabenecK. BrabenecBrabenecincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Christopher EachusC. EachusEachusincumbent Democrat 51%

Tom LapollaT. LapollaLapolla Republican 49%

61%

Paula KayP. KayKay Democrat 52%

Louis IngrassiaL. IngrassiaIngrassia Republican 48%

83%

Brian MaherB. MaherMaherincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Christopher TagueC. TagueTagueincumbent Republican 64%

Janet Tweed TweedJ. TweedTweed Democrat 36%

93%

Sarahana ShresthaS. ShresthaShresthaincumbent Democrat 64%

Jack HayesJ. HayesHayes Republican 36%

95%

Jonathan JacobsonJ. JacobsonJacobsonincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Anil BeephanA. BeephanBeephanincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Didi BarrettD. BarrettBarrettincumbent Democrat 58%

Stephan KrakowerS. KrakowerKrakower Republican 42%

66%

Chloe PierceC. PiercePierce Democrat 55%

Scott BendettS. BendettBendettincumbent Republican 45%

62%

John McDonaldJ. McDonaldMcDonaldincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Gabriella RomeroG. RomeroRomero Democrat 72%

Alicia PurdyA. PurdyPurdy Republican 28%

81%

Phillip SteckP. SteckSteckincumbent Democrat 58%

Jeff MaddenJ. MaddenMadden Republican 42%

93%

Angelo SantabarbaraA. SantabarbaraSantabarbaraincumbent Democrat 62%

Joseph MastroianniJ. MastroianniMastroianni Republican 38%

86%

Mary Beth WalshM. WalshWalshincumbent Republican 61%

Joe SeemanJ. SeemanSeeman Democrat 39%

20%

Carrie WoernerC. WoernerWoernerincumbent Democrat 56%

Jeremy MessinaJ. MessinaMessina Republican 44%

19%

Matthew SimpsonM. SimpsonSimpsonincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Billy JonesB. JonesJonesincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Scott GrayS. GrayGrayincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Kenneth BlankenbushK. BlankenbushBlankenbushincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Robert SmullenR. SmullenSmullenincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Marianne ButtenschonM. ButtenschonButtenschonincumbent Democrat 50.5%

Christine EspositoC. EspositoEsposito Republican 49.5%

79%

William BarclayW. BarclayBarclayincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Joe AngelinoJ. AngelinoAngelinoincumbent Republican 66%

Vicki DavisV. DavisDavis Democrat 34%

64%

Brian MillerB. MillerMillerincumbent Republican 63%

Adrienne MartiniA. MartiniMartini Democrat 37%

61%

Donna LupardoD. LupardoLupardoincumbent Democrat 59%

Lisa OKeefeL. OKeefeOKeefe Republican 41%

81%

Christopher FriendC. FriendFriendincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Anna KellesA. KellesKellesincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

John LemondesJ. LemondesLemondesincumbent Republican 54%

Ian PhillipsI. PhillipsPhillips Democrat 46%

74%

Albert StirpeA. StirpeStirpeincumbent Democrat 58%

Timothy KellyT. KellyKelly Republican 42%

75%

Pamela HunterP. HunterHunterincumbent Democrat 62%

Daniel CiciarelliD. CiciarelliCiciarelli Republican 38%

62%

William MagnarelliW. MagnarelliMagnarelliincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Brian ManktelowB. ManktelowManktelowincumbent Republican 54%

James SchulerJ. SchulerSchuler Democrat 46%

35%

Jeff GallahanJ. GallahanGallahanincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Philip PalmesanoP. PalmesanoPalmesanoincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Andrea BaileyA. BaileyBailey Republican 65%

Colleen Walsh-WilliamsC. Walsh-WilliamsWalsh-Williams Democrat 35%

94%

Josh JensenJ. JensenJensenincumbent Republican

Uncontested

Jen LunsfordJ. LunsfordLunsfordincumbent Democrat 60%

Kimberly DeRosaK. DeRosaDeRosa Republican 40%

84%

Sarah ClarkS. ClarkClarkincumbent Democrat 69%

Orlando RiveraO. RiveraRivera Republican 31%

75%

Demond MeeksD. MeeksMeeksincumbent Democrat 72%

Marcus WilliamsM. WilliamsWilliams Republican 28%

47%

Harry BronsonH. BronsonBronsonincumbent Democrat 62%

Tracy DiFlorioT. DiFlorioDiFlorio Republican 38%

74%

Stephen HawleyS. HawleyHawleyincumbent Republican

Uncontested

William ConradW. ConradConradincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Crystal PeoplesC. PeoplesPeoplesincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Patrick BurkeP. BurkeBurkeincumbent Democrat 50.7%

Marc PrioreM. PriorePriore Republican 49.3%

>95%

Patrick ChludzinskiP. ChludzinskiChludzinski Republican 52%

Monica Piga WallaceM. Piga WallacePiga Wallaceincumbent Democrat 48%

>95%

Paul BolognaP. BolognaBologna Republican 62%

Michelle RomanM. RomanRoman Democrat 38%

>95%

Angelo MorinelloA. MorinelloMorinelloincumbent Republican 61%

Jeff ElderJ. ElderElder Democrat 39%

>95%

Karen McMahonK. McMahonMcMahonincumbent Democrat 60%

Deborah KilbournD. KilbournKilbourn Republican 40%

95%

David DiPietroD. DiPietroDiPietroincumbent Republican 68%

Darci CramerD. CramerCramer Democrat 32%

88%

Joseph SempolinskiJ. SempolinskiSempolinski Republican 64%

Daniel BrownD. BrownBrown Democrat 36%

30%

Jonathan RiveraJ. RiveraRiveraincumbent Democrat

Uncontested

Andrew MolitorA. MolitorMolitor Republican 63%

Mike BobseineM. BobseineBobseine Democrat 37%

>95%

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How a Parks Worker Lives on $37,500 in Tompkinsville, Staten Island

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February 28, 2026

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How a Parks Worker Lives on ,500 in Tompkinsville, Staten Island

How can people possibly afford to live in one of the most expensive cities on the planet? It’s a question New Yorkers hear a lot, often delivered with a mix of awe, pity and confusion.

We surveyed hundreds of New Yorkers about how they spend, splurge and save. We found that many people — rich, poor or somewhere in between — live life as a series of small calculations that add up to one big question: What makes living in New York worth it?

Sara Robinson boarded a Greyhound bus from Oregon to New York City to attend Hunter College in the early 2000s, bright-eyed and eager to pick up odd jobs to fuel her dream of living there.

For a long time, she made it work. But recently, that has been more challenging than ever.

Right around her 40th birthday, Ms. Robinson began to feel financially squeezed in Brooklyn, where she had lived for years. Ms. Robinson (no relation to this reporter) was also feeling too grown to live with roommates.

“As a child,” she said, “you don’t think you’re going to have a roommate at 40.” She decided to move into a place of her own: a one-bedroom apartment in the Tompkinsville neighborhood of Staten Island.

After she moved, the preschool where she’d worked for over a decade closed. Now, she works two jobs. She is a seasonal employee for the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, working from Tuesday to Saturday. And on Monday nights, she sells concessions at the West Village movie theater Film Forum, which pays $25 an hour plus tips.

Ms. Robinson, now 45, loves her job as an environmental educator at a state park on Staten Island. Her team runs the park’s social media accounts and comes up with event programming, like a recent project tapping maple trees to make syrup.

But the role is temporary. Her last stint was from June 2024 to January 2025. Then she was unemployed until August 2025. Ms. Robinson’s current contract will be up in April, unless she gets an extension or a different parks job opens up.

Ms. Robinson’s biweekly pay stubs from the parks department amount to about $1,300 before taxes. She barely felt a difference, she said, while she was out of work and pocketing around $880 every two weeks from her unemployment checks. (Her previous parks gig paid $1,100 a check.)

Living in New York’s Greenest Borough

“It used to be, ‘There’s no way I’m moving to Staten Island,’” Ms. Robinson said. “But the place is close to the water. I’m three minutes from the ferry. The rest is history.” She lives on the third floor of a multifamily house, above an art studio and another tenant. Her rent is $1,600 a month, plus $125 in utilities, including her phone bill.

“If my situation changes, I don’t know if I could find something similar,” she said. “So much of my New York life has been feeling trapped to an apartment. You get a place for a good price, and you’re like, ‘I can’t leave now.’”

Staten Island is convenient for Ms. Robinson’s parks job, but it’s become harder to justify living in a borough where she knows few people. It takes more than an hour to get to friends in Brooklyn, an especially hard trek during the winter. After four years of living on Staten Island, Ms. Robinson feels somewhat isolated.

“All my friends on Staten Island are senior citizens,” she said. “It’s great. I love it. But I do want friends closer to my age.”

One of Ms. Robinson’s friends, Ray, took her on nature walks and taught her about tree identification, sparking an interest in mycology, the study of mushrooms. This led to a productive — and free — fungi foraging hobby during unemployment. She has found all sorts of mushrooms, including, after a month of searching, the elusive morel.

The Budgeting Game

Ms. Robinson doesn’t update her furniture often, but when she does, she shops stoop sales in Park Slope or other parts of Brooklyn.

“It’s like a treasure hunt,” she said. “You could make a whole apartment off the street, off the stuff that people throw away.”

She also makes a game out of grocery shopping, biking to Sunset Park in Brooklyn or Manhattan’s Chinatown to go to stores where there are better deals. She budgets about $300 for groceries each month.

Ms. Robinson bikes almost everywhere, sometimes traveling a little farther to enter the Staten Island Railway at one of the stations that don’t charge a fare. She spends $80 a month on subway and ferry fares, and $5 a month for a discounted Citi Bike membership she gets through a credit union, though she usually uses her own bike. She is handy and does repairs herself.

There are certain splurges — Ms. Robinson drops $400 once or twice a year on round-trip airfare to Seattle, where her family lives. She also spent $100 last year to see a concert at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens.

She said she has many financial saving graces. She has no student loans and no car to make payments on. She doesn’t get health insurance from her jobs, but she qualifies for Medicaid.

She mostly eats at home, though sometimes friends will treat her to dinner. She repays them with tickets to Film Forum movies.

Nothing Beats the Twinkling Lights

Ms. Robinson’s friends often talk about leaving the city — and the country.

Two friends have their eyes set on Sweden, where they hope to get the affordable child care and social safety net they are struggling to access in New York.

Ms. Robinson can’t see herself moving elsewhere in the United States, but she is entertaining the idea of an international move if she can’t hack it on Staten Island.

Yet the pull of the city is hard for her to resist.

“I just get a rush when I’m riding the Staten Island Ferry across the bay,” she said. “You see all the little twinkling lights. It’s this feeling of, ‘everything is possible here.’”

That feeling, plus the many friendly faces Ms. Robinson sees every day — the ferry operators, the conductors on the Staten Island Railway, her co-workers at Film Forum — are what tie her to New York.

“My savings are not increasing, so there’s that,” she said. “But I’ve been OK so far. I think I’m going to figure it out.”

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How the Editor in Chief of Marie Claire Gets Styled for a Trip to Italy

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February 27, 2026

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How the Editor in Chief of Marie Claire Gets Styled for a Trip to Italy

Nikki Ogunnaike, the editor in chief of Marie Claire magazine, did not grow up the scion of an Anna Wintour or a Marc Jacobs.

But, she said, “my mom and dad are both very stylish people.”

They got dressed up to go to church every week in her hometown Springfield, Va. Her mother managed a Staples; her father, a CVS. “Presentation is important to them,” she said.

Since landing her first internship with Glamour magazine in college, Ms. Ogunnaike, 40, has held editorial roles there and at Elle magazine and GQ. She has been in the top post at Marie Claire since 2023.

She recently spent a Saturday with The New York Times as she prepared for Milan Fashion Week.

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How a Physical Therapist and a Retiree Live on $208,000 in Harlem

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February 21, 2026

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How a Physical Therapist and a Retiree Live on 8,000 in Harlem

How can people possibly afford to live in one of the most expensive cities on the planet? It’s a question New Yorkers hear a lot, often delivered with a mix of awe, pity and confusion.

It has never really occurred to Marian or Charles Wade to live anywhere but the city where they were born and where they raised their children.

New York is in their bones. “We have our roots here, and our families enjoyed life here before us,” Ms. Wade said.

And they feel lucky. Between Mr. Wade’s pension, earned after more than 40 years as an analyst at the Manhattan district attorney’s office, and his Social Security benefits, along with Ms. Wade’s work as a physical therapist at a psychiatric center, they bring in about $208,000 a year.

Still, it’s hard for the couple not to notice how much the city has changed as it has become wealthier.

About 10 years ago, Ms. Wade, 65, and Mr. Wade, 69, sold the Morningside Heights apartment they had lived in for decades. The Manhattan neighborhood had become more affluent, and tensions over how their building should be managed and how much residents should be expected to pay for upkeep boiled over between people who had lived there for years and newer neighbors.

They found a new home in Harlem, large enough to fit their two children, who are now adults struggling to afford the city’s housing market.

All in the Family

Ms. Wade knew it was time to leave Morningside Heights when she spotted her husband hiding behind a bush outside their building, hoping to avoid an unpleasant new neighbor. They had bought their apartment in 1994 for $206,000, using some money they had inherited from their families, and sold it in 2015 for $1.13 million.

The couple found a new apartment in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem for $811,000, and put most of the money down upfront. They took out a loan with a good rate for the remaining cost, and had a $947 monthly payment. They recently finished paying off the mortgage, but they have monthly maintenance payments of $1,555, as well as two temporary assessments to help improve the building, totaling $415 a month.

Their two children each moved home shortly after graduating from college.

The couple’s son, Jacob Wade, 28, split an apartment with three roommates nearby for a while, but spent down his savings and moved back in with his parents. He is searching for an affordable one bedroom nearby and plans to move out later in the year. Their daughter, Elka Wade, 27, came home after college but recently moved to an apartment in Astoria, Queens, with roommates.

Until their daughter moved out a few weeks ago, she and her brother each took a bedroom, and Mr. and Ms. Wade slept in the dining room, which they had converted into their bedroom with the help of a Murphy bed and a new set of curtains for privacy.

There is very little storage space. A piano occupies an entire closet in their son’s bedroom, because the family has no other place to fit it.

The setup is cramped, but close quarters have their benefits: When their daughter, a classically trained cellist, was living there, she often practiced at home in the evenings. “I love listening to her play,” Ms. Wade said.

Three Foodtowns and a Thrift Shop

The Wades do what they can to keep their costs low. They’ve decided against installing new, better insulated windows in their drafty apartment. They don’t go on vacations, instead visiting their small weekend home in rural upstate New York. And they’ve pulled back on takeout food and retail shopping.

Instead, Mr. Wade surveys the three Foodtown supermarkets near their home for the best deals, preferring one for produce and another for meat. The weekly grocery bill has been around $500 with both kids living at home, and the family usually orders delivery twice a week, rotating between Chinese and Indian food, which typically costs $70, including leftovers.

For an occasional splurge, they love Pisticci, a nearby restaurant where the penne with homemade mozzarella costs $21.

The couple owns a car, which they park on the street for free. But they often use public transportation to avoid paying the $9 congestion pricing fee to drive downtown, or when they have a good parking spot they don’t want to give up. They have a senior discount for their transit cards, which allows them to pay $1.50 per subway or bus ride, rather than $3.

Ms. Wade stopped shopping at the stores she used to frequent, like Eileen Fisher and Banana Republic, years ago. Instead, she visits a thrift store called Unique Boutique on the Upper West Side. She was browsing the aisles a few months ago, before a big Thanksgiving dinner, and spotted the perfect dress for the occasion for just $20.

But she has one nonnegotiable weekly expense: a private yoga lesson in an instructor’s apartment nearby, for $150 a session.

Elka Wade, a cellist, often practices at home, to the delight of her parents. Bess Adler for The New York Times

Swapping Mortgage Payments for Singing Lessons

For every member of the Wade family, life in New York is all about the arts.

The children each attended the Special Music School, a public school focused on the arts. Their son, an actor, teacher and director, works part time at the Metropolitan Opera and the Kaufman Music Center, a performing arts complex in Manhattan. His sister works in administration at the Kaufman Center.

Mr. Wade is still close with friends from high school who are now professional musicians, and the couple often goes to see them play at venues like the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, where shows typically have a $12 cover and a two-drink minimum.

The couple has cut back on going to expensive concerts — they used to try to see Elvis Costello every time he came to New York, for example — but have timeworn strategies for getting affordable theater tickets.

They recently splurged on tickets to “Oedipus” on Broadway for themselves and their daughter, who they treated to a ticket as a birthday gift. The seats were in the nosebleed section, but still cost $80 apiece.

The couple has a $75 annual membership to the Film Forum, which gives them reduced price tickets to movies. They occasionally get discounted tickets to the opera through their son’s work, and when they don’t, they pay for family circle passes, which are usually $47 a head, plus a $10 fee.

Ms. Wade, who grew up commuting from Flushing, Queens, to Manhattan to take dance lessons, sometimes takes $20 drop-in ballet classes during the week at the Dance Theater of Harlem, just a few blocks away from the apartment.

Recently, when the couple paid off their mortgage, Ms. Wade celebrated by giving herself a treat: weekly private singing lessons, for $125 a session.