AI Listings Have Made Apartment Hunting Even More Debasing

I started reading Valley of the Dolls for the first time the other night. It opens in 1945, with Anne Welles landing in New York and securing a job as a secretary at Henry Bellamy’s theatrical agency. She’s been tasked with finding an apartment for Henry’s handsome business partner, something on the East Side with a living room, bedroom, bath, and kitchen, furnished, for around $150 per month. He