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NYC STATS AND FACTS

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Population of New York City in 2016 is 8.6 million
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  • 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. 
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​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
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  • 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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