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Manhattan's So Over, Census Data Shows
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Mar 27, 2015
Modified Mar 27, 2015
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At last, Manhattan's so uncool it's almost cool. According to recent census population estimates, the borough's population growth has slowed down over the past few years, and far more people are fleeing Manhattan now than before, though the ones that stay seem to allow their children to purchase real estate for them.
Per the census data, domestically, 21,582 people moved out of Manhattan between 2013 and 2014, and though Brooklyn lost a whopping 32,731 people in that period, only 3,620 people peaced out of Manhattan from 2010 and 2011. That same year, Our Most Artisanal Borough lost 14,908 people, making Manhattan's percentage loss far more jarring.
This is not to say that people aren't moving to Manhattan and immediately purchasing 212 area codes. Indeed, the borough gained 4,263 newcomers, about a quarter of one percent of its total population. But in 2011, the borough gained 21,533 people, and its star is losing luster—The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn all earned spots on the report's top 50 numerically gaining metro areas, with about 11,000, 18,000 and 19,000 newcomers respectively.
Meanwhile, as you may have surmised from your morning commute, the city's population's ticked up as a whole, clocking in at a whopping 8.5 million people, with 299,226 more transplants crowding the 4,5,6 trains since 2010.
So why is Manhattan so lame? Well, the real estate's not so great, for one thing, there are drunk bros everywhere, and Central Park was more hardcore in the Bad Old Days. Of course, once the Big Island empties out, Queens, Brooklyn, and those other boroughs will be just as bad, if they aren't already, and Manhattan's forest of abandoned Duane Reades and TD Banks will seem welcoming to those of us who haven't holed up in Midtown's towers of Babel. Let's all move to the Upper East Side!
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