Complex sentence: Meanwhile, at the hair salon across the street, Vanessa, Usnavi's potential love interest, dreams of escaping to a studio apartment in the West Village, remaining optimistic despite her own financial insecurity ("It Won't Be Long Now").
Split into simpler sentences: Meanwhile, at the hair salon across the street, Vanessa, Usnavi's potential love interest, has financial troubles of her own. Vanessa dreams of escaping to a studio apartment in the West Village, but doesn't have enough money to do so, though she remains optimistic ("It Won't Be Long Now").