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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

White: 42.8%  African American: 24.5%  Asian: 14%  Hispanic: 29%

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

Median house or condo value in 2016 - $302,400

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 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)

NYC population growth since 1800th

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

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