Oh, the wailing. Oh, the nashing of teeth. Oh, the predictions of doom and despair!
Didn't you hear? It's over! New York City is over! We're dying, people are fleeing!
They just can't take the crime and unaffordable housing and rotten public transportation and liberal tax-and-spend policies and just all the mean awful nasty stuff that this city doles out.
Get out while you still can!
Well, you'll be in lonely company. The Census results are out and ... drumroll ... in the last ten years 629,000 people came to live within these Five Boroughs.
Six ... HUNDRED THOUSAND ... people.
Put another way: 100,000 more people than live in all of friggin' MIAMI came to live here. More people now live in Brooklyn than Chicago -- the nation's third biggest city. More people than the population of whole states found a home within the city limits in the last decade.
The city's population is now at 8.8 million. If that's decline, well, I guess I have another idea of decline than you.
So, yes, NYC is dead. Long live NYC!
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