I understand that, but you also pay some NY income tax as well as a city income tax. Friends that ride the rails into NYC from NJ say the cars aren’t as crowded as they were before the Greater Depression. Even on 9/11 lives were saved by the vacancy rates in the World Trade Center - and construction of the replacement was delayed because there wasn’t (and still isn’t) sufficient demand to justify building it. Instead they’ll try to load it up with government agencies and such...
Not everyone works in the financial center. People need to man up and widen their work territory. I get tired of NJ people who not only never use Manhattan for entertainment, wouldn’t even THINK of working there. They’re idiots.