Broadway Plays Now As Unrealistic About New York Real Estate As 'Friends'

From a Times piece on the really nice real estate on display in many plays of recent vintage, despite the characters maybe not being of the means to afford said spreads: “Several of the set designers for these productions said that they did not aspire to reflect precise reality in their rendering of Manhattan and Brooklyn homes, but rather achieve exactly the sort of jealous stirring that New Yorkers can feel about the digs of their friends and neighbors.” Weren’t we all supposed to be done with the age of ire-stoking aspirationalism by now?