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Originally Posted by urbanactivist
Census 2000 population (for comparison): 8,008,288
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I don't think NYC gained 400k. Especially considering how much the Census undercounted other cities.
How many significant residential structures were built, created over the past 10 years? Since there's so little greenfield to develop, there would have to be lots of conversions to warrant a 400k gain. Also the truth of the matter is that in order for all of these conversions to occur, poor families would have been priced out of the city into other areas of the metro.
my guess: 8,199,000
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I don't think New York gained 400,000 residents either. But I'm most interested in seeing if New York's black population stayed stable. Many areas of Brooklyn showed big demographic shifts from black to white over the past decade.
Philadelphia's black population actually bucked the trend among major urban areas of the northeast and Midwest, and I wonder if that is in part due to people fleeing New York.