NYC STATS AND FACTS

Population of New York City in 2016 is 8.6 million

New York City is by far the largest city in the United States
Since the first US census in 1790, it has held that position, and continues to have more than double the population of Los Angeles, the second-largest city. Chicago is the third-largest city in the US, but has just 1/3 the number of people as New York City.
Brooklyn - 2.6 million
Queens - 2.4 million
Manhattan - 1.6
Bronx - 1.4 million
Staten Island - 0.5 million
Foreign born persons - 37% (this is more than the whole population of Chicago)
Language other than English spoken at home - 49%
About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City.
The borough of Brooklyn on its own would be the 4th largest city in the United States
New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia.
New York has the largest Puerto Rican population of any city in the world.
More Dominicans live in New York than any other city in the world, barring Santo Domingo.
The Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel.

The city features five separate boroughs: Staten Island, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan.

Queens is the largest borough (followed by Brooklyn, Bronx, and Staten Island)
Manhattan is the smallest
Size of NYC is 302 sq. miles

Median household income in 2016 $63,000
Number of full-service restaurants: 3,961
Number of visitors to NYC in 2017 - 62.8 million
Number of languages spoken in NYC is 800
NYC population growth since the 1800s

1800 - 60,000
1830 - 185,000
1850 - 590,000
1880 - almost 2 million
1900 - almost 4 million

NYC subway is one one of the largest and oldest in the world

There are 5.7 million subway rides per weekday
Number of stations - 472
Number of routes - 22
The longest ride is the A train from 207th Street in Manhattan to Far Rockaway in Queens (more than 31 miles)

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