Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Kennedy hits the streets of New York City to ask tourists a simple question: why is visiting NYC at Christmas so outrageously expensive?
reason.com
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Drawing on interviews with tourists she meets on the streets of New York, Kennedy explains how city policies have quietly removed tens of thousands of rooms from the short-term rental market while simultaneously making it far more difficult to build or expand hotels.
Producer: Natalie Dowzicky
Video editor: Hana Ko
Color correction: Cody Huff
Audio production: Ian Keyser
Music credits: That's the Way I Twist by The Best Ofs via Epidemic Sound/Circus Beat by Martin Landstrom via Epidemic Sound/Go Tell It On The Mountain (Instrumental Version) by The Snowy Hill Singers via Epidemic Sound/The Christmas Spirit (Instrumental Version) by The Snowy Hill Singers via Epidemic Sound/Christmas With Me (Instrumental Version) by Frizz Oli via Epidemic Sound
Kennedy hits the streets of New York City to ask tourists a simple question: why is visiting NYC at Christmas so outrageously expensive?
reason.com
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Drawing on interviews with tourists she meets on the streets of New York, Kennedy explains how city policies have quietly removed tens of thousands of rooms from the short-term rental market while simultaneously making it far more difficult to build or expand hotels.
Producer: Natalie Dowzicky
Video editor: Hana Ko
Color correction: Cody Huff
Audio production: Ian Keyser
Music credits: That's the Way I Twist by The Best Ofs via Epidemic Sound/Circus Beat by Martin Landstrom via Epidemic Sound/Go Tell It On The Mountain (Instrumental Version) by The Snowy Hill Singers via Epidemic Sound/The Christmas Spirit (Instrumental Version) by The Snowy Hill Singers via Epidemic Sound/Christmas With Me (Instrumental Version) by Frizz Oli via Epidemic Sound
