NYC was such a dynamic playground and concentrated land of opportunity for the young, however, that they had ever more looking to move and stay there until DeBlasio’s malevolent influence started the Cities slow decline.
Then their apparently intentional Covid mismanagement and most recently support for rioting, looting and violence over law and order pand open commerce put the City’s collapse into overdrive.
A lot of those young people started flocking to the NJ side of the Hudson River (Hoboken/Weehawken/Jersey City’s “Gold Coast”); the costs drove many of them out before the wilding savages.