And at $331.76 a month, it might be one of the very best deals in New York City. “I don’t plan on dying because I don’t want to give up a rent-controlled apartment,” said Mr. Warwick, who is 80 and has lived in one of the apartments above the Cherry Lane Theater for half a century. “I pay so little I’m almost embarrassed.

My gay kids are more fun than my straight ones,” she said.