Whenever you stumble upon an old episode of Friends, you often wonder: how? How on earth can Monica and Rachel afford a 2-bedroom 100m² apartment in the West Village on their salaries? With a balcony! The producers eventually nodded to this little inconsistency and explained it by saying the pair only had to pay $200 per month as the rent had been capped since the 1940s when Monica’s grandmother signed a rent-controlled lease. In 2018, CNBC valued the property. To live there now, the rent would be somewhere in the region of $6,350-$7,250 per month...