That's in the tiny fraction of real estate that is luxury housing owned by the unfathomably wealthy.
The article itself says
> Among all of the 845,000 apartments and houses in Manhattan, 102,000 were identified as vacant in the 2005-9 American Community Survey.
The numbers are a bit muddied, because the article hints but doesn't ivestigate the seasonal bias in vacancy:
> Of those, about 33,000 — or about 1 in every 25 Manhattan homes — had an owner or renter who lived there less than two months of the year.
The article itself says > Among all of the 845,000 apartments and houses in Manhattan, 102,000 were identified as vacant in the 2005-9 American Community Survey.
The numbers are a bit muddied, because the article hints but doesn't ivestigate the seasonal bias in vacancy:
> Of those, about 33,000 — or about 1 in every 25 Manhattan homes — had an owner or renter who lived there less than two months of the year.