Secrets of New York's realtors: 'All apartments are basically four walls'

If you're paying $1,900 to $2,300 for a West Village studio, for example, you're at the low end of the price brackets – the high end is $2,395 to $2,750. The price ceiling for a one-bed in Soho or Tribeca, the guide suggests, is $3,500. Further north …