While most New Yorkers debate whether avocado toast is worth a week’s grocery budget, Hornell residents are buying entire houses for less than a luxury car.
This Southern Tier community proves that somewhere between the Hamptons and bankruptcy, affordable New York living actually exists.
Tucked into Steuben County about 90 minutes south of Rochester, Hornell operates in an economic reality that feels like fiction to anyone paying $3,000 monthly for a studio apartment where the shower is in the kitchen.
The town’s population of roughly 8,000 people enjoys something revolutionary in New York: the ability to own property without selling organs or winning game shows…