Goh, I suggest following /r/buildapcsales on Reddit. I know you are in NYC and there is a Microcenter in Brooklyn by Costco. Hang around and you might get lucky. Today an ASUS 1080 Ti were going for $780 in certain Microcenter stores. Bestbuy also been doing GPUs at or near MSRP. EVGA web store also seems to have the rare MSRP cards as well.
If you go into a store, you might have to argue with sales and you probably should win since it was advertised for MSRP.
Best of luck. Crypto must be destroyed.
Edit: I got to say though, I regretting less about getting my 980 Ti a while back now. It's about equal to a 1070 so I should be happy for a while... Crypto better die by the 12xx line.