At Nike’s NYC street race, where runners went head-to-head for rent money, affordability was top of mind

Luckily for the winners of Nike’s street race — and perhaps Nike as well — both pay less than $4,000 for their share of rent in New York City.

The sportswear giant was offering that much, which it described as a month’s rent, to two winners of a multi-heat street race held in New York City on Saturday. That’s less than the median monthly rental cost for a Manhattan apartment.

One winner, Destiny Scott, told Business Insider in a post-race interview that she lives with her mother in a “decent-sized” apartment in East Harlem. She said her share of the rent is $1,000 a month.

“It can help out as rent gets more expensive,” the 26-year-old said of…