The town of the talk shares a number of factoids about the Big Apple:
In the 1990s, immigrants flooded into New York in greater numbers and from more countries than ever before. The city’s population has reached an all-time high of 8.1m, and a higher proportion of its people — over 36% — are foreign-born than at any time since the 1920s. Los Angeles and Miami have an even larger proportion of immigrants, but New York’s are far more diverse. Over half of Miami’s new arrivals are Cuban, and over 40% of Los Angeles’ are Mexican. In New York, the Dominican Republic provides the biggest chunk of immigrants, with a share of 13%. China comes next with 9%, then Jamaica with 6%. No other country has more than 5%.
Amusing:
“Sex and the City” stars four young career women and is ostensibly about the difficulties of finding a man in New York. It has a point. According to an analysis for The Economist, there are 93 men to every 100 women among single New Yorkers aged 20-44. In the country as a whole, and in most other big cities, there are more young single men than young single women.
(As someone else pointed out, far from all of those 93 men are even interested in women…)
When I think New York, I don’t typically think safe and healthy, but I should:
New York is a strikingly healthy place to live, and was so long before Mr Bloomberg began to wage a war on smoking in 2002. Partly because there is no room for many cars — so New Yorkers are highly unlikely to be killed by them, and take more exercise — New York has the lowest mortality rate of all but three of America’ s 46 biggest cities.
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Leave out the passengers and crew on the aeroplanes that were flown into the World Trade Centre, and about 2,600 people were killed in New York on September 11th 2001. Put that tragic number in perspective, and you can perhaps see how it is possible for New York to be a powerful magnet for talent, youth and energy once more. In 1990 there were 2,290 murders in the city; last year there were 566. Thus even if a September 11th were to occur every other year, the city would by one measure be quite a lot safer than it would be with crime at its 1990 level and no terrorism.