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Italian Immigrants Stick to Mother Tongue (City Limits, Nov 4, 2008)
Hispanic Population Surging (NY Post, Oct 24, 2008)
Arab Muslims in Brooklyn Find Power in the Voting Booth (NY Times, Oct 19, 2008)
Young People Going Back to the Farm (WNYC, Oct 2, 2008)
Fewer Blacks, More Whites Are Hired as City Teachers (NY Sun, Sep 25, 2008)
City's White Population Increases, Reversing Long Trend (NY Times, Sep 23, 2008)
In Queens Assembly Seat’s Past, a Hint of Musical Chairs (NY Times, Sep 11, 2008)
Lower Manhattan Population Grew 83 Percent Since 9/11 (NY Post, Sep 11, 2008)
Gay, Lesbian Families with Kids Prefer Outer Boroughs (Gay City News, Sep 2, 2008)
Staten Island: From Suburbia to Melting Pot (Staten Island Advance, Aug 8, 2008)
Bloomberg Offers New Poverty Measure (Washington Post, Jul 14, 2008)
Demographic Changes Could Affect City Elections (NY Times, Jul 13, 2008)
Where Brooklyn Gets Its New Yorkers (NY Observer, Jun 19, 2008)
Pope Visits Manhattan Synagogue (NY Times, Apr 21, 2008)
Pope’s Visit to the Big Apple (NY Times, Apr 21, 2008)
Pope Visits Ground Zero (NY Times, Apr 21, 2008)
Egan May Be leaving (NY Times, Apr 21, 2008)
Where Manhattanites Move When They Want to Stay in NY (NY Observer, Apr 18, 2008)
Manhattan's (Rich, White) Baby Boom (Washington Post, Mar 29, 2008)
Census Shows Population Rise in City (NY Post, Mar 20, 2008)
Brooklyn, Queens Among Nation's 10 Most Populous Counties (The Real Estate, Mar 20, 2008)
Brooklyn Freelance Frenzy (NY Observer, Mar 13, 2008)
New York Slips In a Rich Area: Billionaires (NY Sun, Mar 6, 2008)
Population Task Force Holds First Hearing Today (AM New York, Feb 15, 2008)
1,000 New Yorkers Move to Philadelphia Annually (NY Observer, Feb 14, 2008)
Report: Applause for Mayor's Efforts--But Construction Still Very White, Male (The Real Estate, Feb 13, 2008)
Optimism is High for Asian Political Potential in 2009 with Liu Running Citywide (City Hall, Jan 14, 2008)
Little Growth in Empire State (NY Post, Dec 31, 2007)
Administration Seeks New Poverty Measure (NY Times, Dec 30, 2007)
The Bloomberg administration, frustrated by the federal government's long-standing method of determining who is poor, is developing its own measure.
Bloomberg Seeks New Way to Decide Who Is Poor (NY Times, Dec 30, 2007)
State May Loose Congressional Seats With Next Census (City Room, Dec 27, 2007)
Race and Carrion's Decision (Politicker, Dec 14, 2007)
Young Families Fleeing New York (NY Observer, Dec 12, 2007)
Encouraging Minority Students to Pursue a Career in Medicine (NY Times, Dec 9, 2007)
When Residents Weigh In on Gentrification (City Room, Dec 7, 2007)
Of Race and Progress: How Blacks Fare Today (City Limits, Dec 6, 2007)
Considering the Urban Planet of 2050 (City Room, Dec 4, 2007)
Out-of-Towners Flocking to Ethnic Shopping Districts (Daily News, Dec 4, 2007)
Jamaica Area is Ground Zero of Foreclosure Crisis (Crain's, Dec 2, 2007)
Report Paints Bleak Picture For NY Blacks (NY Sun, Nov 30, 2007)
Quinn Lays Out Plan To Help With Increase In Elderly Population (NY 1, Nov 28, 2007)
More Minorities Pass Firefighter Exam (NY Times, Nov 28, 2007)
Rich Get 140% Richer, But Can They Still Afford NYC? (New York Magazine, Nov 25, 2007)
Population of City Continues to Rise (NY Sun, Nov 21, 2007)
Bail’s Cost on the Poor (City Limits, Oct 23, 2007)
Where Harlem May Go (AM New York, Oct 9, 2007)
Census Shows Middle Class Leaving City (NY Observer, Sep 19, 2007)
Staten Island Librarians Collect Stories From Liberian Civil War (NY Times, Sep 18, 2007)
City's Economy Outpaces Nation (Crain's, Sep 13, 2007)
After Years of Decline, City’s White Population Levels Off (NY Times, Sep 12, 2007)
Cuomo Expands Investigation of State Pension Fund (NY Sun, Sep 12, 2007)
New York’s Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Nation’s Widest, Census Says (NY Times, Aug 29, 2007)
Groups Count Number of Homeless Youth (WNYC, Aug 16, 2007)
Census Finds Blacks Leaving City (NY Sun, Aug 9, 2007)
Asians Make Broad Gains in Metro Area Population (NY Times, Aug 9, 2007)
Proposed Changes in Immigration Law Could Have Big Effect on City (NY Times, May 30, 2007)
Births Send NYC Metro Area (NY Post, Apr 5, 2007)
A Population Boom in Staten Island (NY Post, Mar 22, 2007)
Demand for English Lessons Outstrips Supply (NY Times, Feb 27, 2007)
More Than Half Of All Drivers Into Manhattan Are From The Boroughs (Not The Suburbs), And Other Surprising Traffic Facts Culled From Census Data (NY Times, Jan 12, 2007)
Murder Rate Rises Almost Ten Percent (NY Sun, Dec 28, 2006)
Overall Population in New York State Drops (NY Sun, Dec 22, 2006)
Birth Rate in City Hits 25-Year Low (NY Sun, Dec 21, 2006)
Bloomberg Sets Goals to Prepare for Population Boom (NY Sun, Dec 13, 2006)
A task force convened by Mayor Bloomberg to study the city’s growing needs has found that by 2030 the city’s roads, bridges, tunnels, subways, energy supply, housing, and water delivery system will all be at capacity if nothing is done. The mayor has outlined a set of goals to prepare the city for expected population growth. There was no price tag put on the combination of projects, but given the magnitude the costs will be many billions of dollars.
Young Hispanic And Old Asian Women At High Risk For Suicide In NYC, Assembly Hearing Told (NY Times, Dec 8, 2006)
In New York City, teenage Hispanic girls are hospitalized for depression at a rate of 388 per 100,000 (compared with 374 for teenage white girls) and are hospitalized after attempting suicide or talking about it at a rate of 95.5 per 100,000 (compared with 88.5 for teenage white girls). Asian women 65 and older in the city have a suicide rate of 11.6 per 100,000, more than double the rate for non-Hispanic white women in that age group
New York Plans to Make Gender A Personal Choice, Allowing Alteration, For Example, In Birth Certificates (NY Times, Nov 7, 2006)
Thirty-Eight Percent Of All Mass-Transit Riders In The Nation Live In Metro NY (NY Post, Oct 17, 2006)
Mayor Asks Blacks To Fight Guns (Daily News, Oct 9, 2006)
Mayor Bloomberg made a plea yesterday to black New Yorkers to join him in his fight for stricter gun control laws.
"We have to do something, and I need your support. You've got to stand up and say, 'No more,'" Bloomberg told the Rev. Floyd Flake's congregation at the Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens.
Bloomberg said 69% of those killed by guns last year in New York City were black - while only 27% of the city's population is African-American.
Last week, Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino launched a Web site - mayorsagainstillegalguns.net - aimed at getting reluctant federal lawmakers to get tough against gun crime.
No Improvement in Poverty Rate (NY Times, Aug 30, 2006)
Despite New York City’s economic rebound from 9/11 and the national recession, the proportion of city residents who live below the federal poverty level — about one in five — has not budged in the last five years, according to census figures released yesterday. The stagnant poverty rate, coming at a time of relative prosperity, suggests that wealth has not trickled down to the city’s poorest and has raised concerns among experts and policy makers.
Poverty Rate Rises Among Seniors (Daily News, Aug 30, 2006)
One in five city senior citizens is living below the poverty line, even as the overall number of poor New Yorkers has dropped slightly, new U.S. census data show.
New York Is Losing People at Fastest Pace in America (NY Sun, Apr 20, 2006)
New York State is losing more residents than any other state in the country, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released early today.
Decline in Black Population In NYC, According Preliminary Census Estimates (NY Times, Apr 3, 2006)
An accelerating exodus of American-born blacks, coupled with slight declines in birthrates and a slowing influx of Caribbean and African immigrants, have produced a decline in New York City's black population for the first time since the draft riots during the Civil War, according to preliminary census estimates.
An analysis of the latest figures show the city with 30,000 fewer black residents in 2004 than in 2000
Census Data Finds New York City Population in Decline (NY Sun, Mar 16, 2006)
Manhattan Neighborhoods See a Surge in Twins (NY Sun, Jan 25, 2006)
Reverse Commuting On The Rise (NY Times, Nov 7, 2005)
New York's Ever-Changing Electorate: Next, the White Minority (NY Times, Sep 13, 2005)
The Democratic primary is the prelude to a potentially revolutionary turning point in New York City's traditional tribal politics: In November, for the first time, non-Hispanic whites are projected to constitute a minority of the voters in a mayoral general election.
City Poverty Rate Rises (Daily News, Aug 31, 2005)
The city's poverty rate rose to 20.3 percent in 2004, up from 19 percent in 2003 -- making New York the nation's only major city to show an increase, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Among the city's five boroughs, only the Bronx showed a statistically significant increase, rising to 30.6 percent in 2004 from 28.7 percent in 2003. Nationwide, the poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent in 2004. The percentage of the nation's population without health insurance remained stable . The release of the data quickly found its way into the mayor's race.
New York Is Country's 21st Most Liberal City, Says Study (NY Sun, Aug 12, 2005)
A new study puts the Big Apple near the bottom of a list of the top 25 most liberal cities in America - and behind such newly crowned leftist redoubts as Gary, Ind., Newark, N.J., and Flint, Mich.
According to the study, released yesterday, Detroit, is the most liberal city in America. Provo, Utah, is the most conservative. The survey was conducted by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research, a nonpartisan, nonprofit institute based in Berkeley, Calif.
The institute's findings, particularly on the liberal list, challenged the preconceptions of those who expected either small, left-leaning university towns - such as Madison, Wis., Berkeley, Calif., and Ann Arbor, Mich. - or major metropolises, such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, to dominate the rankings. While Berkeley and Cambridge, Mass., came in at nos. 3 and 8 on the most liberal list, Madison and Ann Arbor were notably absent. Also missing from the top 25 list was Los Angeles, and other large cities ranked low, with Chicago coming in at no. 17 and New York appearing at no. 21.
Is Mayor's Race About Race? (Village Voice, Aug 11, 2005)
Homelessness Down Nine Percent Over Past Six Months Thanks To His Policies, Mayor Says (NY Sun, Jul 1, 2005)
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday announced the largest six-month decline in homelessness since 1990.
The administration released a plan outlining its strategy for ending chronic homelessness last June. At the time, the average monthly homeless census was up to 37,462 individuals. By this May, the agency's average monthly count was down more than 3,000 to 34,080.That marked a decrease of 9%
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