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Poverty Increased In NYC, Report Says (NY Times, Apr 22, 2013)

Infographic Plots Income Inequality By Subway Stop (The New Yorker, Apr 17, 2013)

Things Have Changed Since Million-Person-Growth Projection (Capital, Apr 2, 2013)

Fewer People Abandoning the Bronx (NY Times, Mar 14, 2013)

The Whitest Assembly Districts (Capital, Mar 6, 2013)

City Defends Gifted Policy (Wall Street Journal, Mar 5, 2013)

In ‘Occupy,’ Well-Educated Professionals Far Outnumbered Jobless, Study Finds (NY Times, Jan 29, 2013)

The Geography Of Class in NY (The Atlantic Cities, Jan 25, 2013)

Brooklyn's Income Inequality: Global Causes, Local Effects (City Limits, Dec 18, 2012)

Poor Schools Struggling to Meet State Standards, Years After Critical Ruling (NY Times, Dec 10, 2012)

How the Coastline Became a Place to Put the Poor (NY Times, Dec 4, 2012)

"Dire Consequences" Ahead for 16 Percent of State Youth Out of Work, School (Associated Press, Dec 3, 2012)

One in Six New Yorkers Go Hungry - Before Sandy (Daily News, Nov 21, 2012)

Hundreds of Thousands of Youth in Metro Area Adrift: Report (WNYC, Oct 22, 2012)

Poor smokers spend 25 percent of income on cigarettes (NY Times, Sep 20, 2012)

Activists call for more Latino and Asian-American council districts (Daily News, Sep 5, 2012)

Map: City Council prepares for redistricting (WNYC, Sep 5, 2012)

Young continue to flock to NYC, while upstate grows older faster (Associated Press, Aug 17, 2012)

Report: NYC Women Fare Worse in Economic Recovery (Wall Street Journal, Aug 15, 2012)

Out-of-town homeless families in NYC shelters jumps 48 percent (Daily News, Jul 31, 2012)

Poor children drive city's asthma rate (Wall Street Journal, Jul 18, 2012)

Some Brooklyn neighborhoods left behind as borough gentrifies (NY Times, Jul 9, 2012)

Study: 19 percent of New York Jews 'poor' (Y Net, Jun 25, 2012)

Most School Arrests and Summonses Happen in the Bronx (Daily News, May 31, 2012)

Comptroller Report Details City's Income Disparity (Daily News, May 23, 2012)

More Earners at Extremes in City than in US (NY Times, May 21, 2012)

Council Wants Banks to Describe Efforts in Poor Areas (NY Times, May 15, 2012)

Black Population Rises in East New York While Dropping Citywide (Daily News, May 11, 2012)

A Look at the City's Least Diverse Neighborhood: Midwood (WNYC, May 9, 2012)

Increasing Orthodox Population Has Candidates Adjusting Their Message (NY Observer, Apr 25, 2012)

Child Poverty Growing in Hip Neighborhoods (Daily News, Apr 19, 2012)

Blacks, Latinos More Likely to be Enrolled in Lowest-Performing High Schools (Daily News, Apr 18, 2012)

Population Growth Outpacing 2010 Census, 2011 Estimates Show (NY Times, Apr 5, 2012)

Some Neighborhoods Lag In Broadband Access (City Limits, Mar 29, 2012)

Principals: Cultural Rift Explains Higher Discipline Rate for Blacks, Latinos (WNYC, Mar 12, 2012)

Uptown Latinos Push to Increase Political Power Through Redistricting (Daily News, Mar 9, 2012)

Homelessness: It's About Race, Not Just Poverty (City Limits, Mar 6, 2012)

For Many Asian New Yorkers, Smoking Still a Way of Life (NY Times, Mar 2, 2012)

More Blacks and Latinos Admitted to City's Elite Public Schools (NY Times, Mar 1, 2012)

Closing Schools More Poor, Less White (City Limits, Feb 14, 2012)

Map Estimates Energy Use of Almost Every Building in City (Wall Street Journal, Feb 2, 2012)

Unease Lingers Amid a Rebirth in Crown Heights (NY Times, Feb 1, 2012)

Albany Redistricting Plan Faulted as Unfair to Minorities (NY Times, Jan 31, 2012)

New Plan Creates Asian Majority District (Daily News, Jan 30, 2012)

Redistricting Would Shake Up Bronx (Daily News, Jan 30, 2012)

Bill Would Create School Holiday for Lunar New Year (NY Times, Jan 24, 2012)

Brooklyn Arena Criticized on Hiring (Wall Street Journal, Jan 23, 2012)

More Immigrants, Fewer English Classes (Wall Street Journal, Jan 23, 2012)

Asian Americans Consider a Political Landscape Without John Liu (WNYC, Jan 19, 2012)

Civic Groups Want Redistricting to Keep Neighborhoods Intact (Daily News, Jan 11, 2012)

In the City, the One Percent Take Home $493,000 or More (WNYC, Dec 13, 2011)

Legislation Would Make New Officers Live in City (NY Times, Dec 12, 2011)

Census Pinpoints City's Wealthiest, Poorest Neighborhoods (WNYC, Dec 8, 2011)

City's Mexican Population Grows Rapidly (Albany Times Union, Nov 26, 2011)

New York's Mexicans Lag in Education (NY Times, Nov 25, 2011)

More Americans Move into City (NY Times, Nov 12, 2011)

Larry Seabrook Trial Begins Today (City Hall, Nov 7, 2011)

New York Area Home to 13 Percent of the Wealthiest 1 Percent (NY Times, Oct 26, 2011)

City Has Most Superrich in Nation: Report (Daily News, Oct 20, 2011)

One in Five City Residents Living in Poverty (NY Times, Sep 22, 2011)

Asian Boom in Brooklyn Along N Line in Brooklyn (Daily News, Sep 15, 2011)

New Yorkers Giving Public Schools Higher Marks (Daily News, Sep 14, 2011)

Inside the Police Department Spy Unit they Deny Exists (Associated Press, Aug 31, 2011)

Asian-Americans Push for Transparency in Use of Census for Redistricting (Daily News, Aug 25, 2011)

Sunset Park Now Home to Most Chinese in City (Daily News, Aug 5, 2011)

White Population Soars in Bedford-Stuyvesant (NY Times, Aug 5, 2011)

New Yorkers Leave for Other States (NY Post, Aug 3, 2011)

With 2 Seats to Get the Ax, Redistricting Anxiety Hits State's Congress Members (NY Times, Aug 1, 2011)

Slower Racial Change Found in Census of City (NY Times, Jul 29, 2011)

Census Shows Rising Numbers of Gay Couples and Dominicans in City (WNYC, Jul 14, 2011)

Latino Group Seeks Redrawing of Weiner's District (Associated Press, Jul 13, 2011)

Seniors Will Soon Outnumber Schoolchildren in City (USA Today, Jul 11, 2011)

South Asians at Highest Risk for Diabetes in City (Reuters, Jul 8, 2011)

Seniors in Public Housing Less Healthy Than Peers Citywide (WNYC, Jul 8, 2011)

Two Sides of the Harlem, Two Sides of New York's Yawning Income Gap (New York Magazine, Jul 6, 2011)

Asian New Yorkers Seek Power to Match Numbers (NY Times, Jun 24, 2011)

Korean Grocers are Dwindling (NY Times, Jun 2, 2011)

Why Are People Planning to Move from the State? (City Journal, May 26, 2011)

Survey Suggests Census May Have Undercounted New Yorkers (NY Times, May 25, 2011)

Census: New York Older, Especially in Rural Areas (Associated Press, May 12, 2011)

Manhattan Shows increase in Families with Children Under Age 5 (NY Times, May 12, 2011)

Severe Overcrowding Persists in Corona's Schools (Daily News, May 11, 2011)

Brooklyn Enclave Sees Nation's Largest Increase in Diversity (Bloomberg, May 6, 2011)

New Web Site Pairs Home Listings with School Rankings (Daily News, May 6, 2011)

Census Count for New York City Challenged (Daily News, Apr 17, 2011)

Census Workers Unable to Access 'Housing Underworld,' Some Say (WNYC, Apr 7, 2011)

City to Formally Challenge Census Numbers (Daily News, Mar 28, 2011)

City’s Population Barely Rose in the Last Decade, Census Finds (NY Times, Mar 25, 2011)

Blacks Leave City as Asians Propel Growth (Wall Street Journal, Mar 25, 2011)

City to Census: Where’d All the People Go? (NY Post, Mar 25, 2011)

Queens Leads the Way as More Asians Move to New York - 1 in 5 in the Borough (Daily News, Mar 25, 2011)

Census 2010 Figures Show City Growth, Upstate Loss (Associated Press, Mar 25, 2011)

City Report Says Assistance Programs Kept Poverty From Rising During Recession (NY Times, Mar 21, 2011)

Downtown Brooklyn's Population Increases 50 Percent in One Year (NY Post, Mar 4, 2011)

Little Italy No Longer Home to Many Italians (NY Times, Feb 22, 2011)

Minorities Gain in Police Department Ranks (Wall Street Journal, Jan 7, 2011)

New York to Lose Two House Seats (City Room, Dec 22, 2010)

Census Shows Shift Away from Northeast (NY Times, Dec 22, 2010)

Which Congress Members Could Lose their Seats? (, Dec 22, 2010)

Census Confirms It: New Yorkers Have Long Commutes (Daily News, Dec 15, 2010)

Staten Islanders Have Longest Commutes in the Nation, Census Finds (Staten Island Advance, Dec 15, 2010)

Census Finds a Gentrifying City and More Diverse Suburbs (NY Times, Dec 15, 2010)

Two-Thirds of Murder Victims are Black, Drugs Involved (Daily News, Dec 2, 2010)

New York’s House Delegation to Lose One or Two Seats (NY Times, Dec 2, 2010)

Report Shows Plight of Puerto Rican Youth (NY Times, Oct 29, 2010)

In Tea Party Era, Who Are the New York Conservatives? (WNYC, Oct 15, 2010)

Downtown Manhattan Continues to Grow (Crain's, May 19, 2010)

City Improves Census Return Rate (NY Times, Apr 22, 2010)

Brooklyn Has Lowest Census Return Rate (Daily News, Apr 2, 2010)

New Push for Census Responses (am New York, Apr 1, 2010)

New Yorkers Lagging in Census Returns (Daily News, Mar 24, 2010)

City Launches Effort to Count Illegal Immigrants (WNYC, Mar 10, 2010)

City's Poverty Standard Shows Higher Rise than Federal (NY Times, Mar 3, 2010)

Whites Become Minority in Council (Associated Press, Nov 5, 2009)

Middle Class Leaving New York State, Study Finds (Wall Street Journal, Oct 28, 2009)

Most Low-Income New Yorkers have Less than $1,000 in Bank (Crain's, Oct 7, 2009)

Job Losses Show Wider Racial Gap in New York (NY Times, Jul 13, 2009)
Unemployment among blacks in New York City has increased much faster than for whites, and the gap appears to be widening at an accelerating pace, new studies of jobless data have found.

Kindergarten Waiting List Shrinks, But Parents Still Worry (Daily News, Jul 8, 2009)

City at Core of State's Population Rise (Albany Times Union, Jul 1, 2009)

Residency Requirements Here to Stay (Daily News, Jul 1, 2009)

How the Bloomberg Administration Created, Then Ignored the School Crowding Crunch (New York Magazine, May 27, 2009)

Data Show Minority Juveniles Arrested More Often (Associated Press, May 22, 2009)

City May Soon Need New Area Code (Associated Press, May 18, 2009)

Hispanic Population’s Growth Propelled City's Census Record (NY Times, May 14, 2009)

New York Shoppers Bargain-Hunting, According to Zagats (Crain's, Apr 22, 2009)

City, Activists Differ on Homeless Count (Queens Chronicle, Apr 10, 2009)

City Launches Push to Get All New Yorkers Counted in Census (Newsday, Apr 8, 2009)

Census Applications Soar (Metro, Mar 19, 2009)

Census: Growth in New York Concentrated in Metro Area (Associated Press, Mar 19, 2009)

City Sees Fewer Residents Leave for Other States (NY Times, Mar 19, 2009)

Metro Area Population Continues Growth (NY Post, Mar 19, 2009)

Taxes Not Seen as Making the Rich Flee New York (NY Times, Mar 19, 2009)

East New York Has Longest Commute in City (NY Post, Mar 12, 2009)

A Closer Look at the City's Happiest (and Unhappiest) Hoods (NY Times, Mar 8, 2009)

City’s Middle-Class Exodus Seen Accelerating (Crain's, Feb 6, 2009)

New Yorkers Replace Out-of-Towners as New Renters (Real Deal, Feb 6, 2009)

Millionaires Leaving New York (Daily News, Feb 5, 2009)

Staten Island Death Rate Much Higher Than City (Staten Island Advance, Jan 11, 2009)

Population Grew But Traffic Didn't (NY Times, Dec 14, 2008)

Census Report Shows an Evermore Diverse City (NY Times, Dec 9, 2008)

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)

White Flight Reverses (, Sep 23, 2008)
The proportion of New York City residents who are white and non-Hispanic rose slightly last year, reversing more than a half-century of so-called white flight from the city, according to census figures released on Tuesday.

City's White Population Increases, Reversing Long Trend (NY Times, Sep 23, 2008)

Lower Manhattan Population Grew 83 Percent Since 9/11 (NY Post, Sep 11, 2008)

In Queens Assembly Seat’s Past, a Hint of Musical Chairs (NY Times, 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)

Preliminary Mayor's Management Report (, Feb 15, 2008)
An interim look at the performance of various city agencies was released yesterday in a report called the Preliminary Mayor's Management Report. Published annually, it takes a look at the city's performance in the first four months of the fiscal year and forecasts performance expectations. Much of the information can be broken down by individual agency, issue, or community. Some significant highlights were: Sewer back up complaints jumped by 23 percent; the average response time to heat complaints rose by 50 percent (although stays within the goal of seven hours); and major felony crimes in schools were nearly a third lower than the same quarter last year.

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)

Asians Make Broad Gains in Metro Area Population (NY Times, Aug 9, 2007)

Census Finds Blacks Leaving City (NY Sun, 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

A Third Of New Yorkers Are College Graduates, According To U.S. Census (, Nov 14, 2006)

Latinos, Asians Increase In Population; Blacks, Whites Decrease (, Nov 14, 2006)

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.

Black Incomes Surpass Whites in Queens (, Oct 1, 2006)
In Queens, the median income among black households, nearing $52,000 a year, has surpassed that of whites in 2005, an analysis of new census data shows. No other county in the country with a population over 65,000 can make that claim. The gains among blacks in Queens, the city’s quintessential middle-class borough, were driven largely by the growth of two-parent families and the successes of immigrants from the West Indies. Many live in tidy homes in verdant enclaves like Cambria Heights, Rosedale and Laurelton, just west of the Cross Island Parkway and the border with Nassau County.

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.

Adult day care offers a lifeline for partners (, Aug 20, 2005)
Nearly 25 percent of American households care for an aging friend or relative, a number that is expected to grow, according to the National Adult Day Services Association. A little-known step between senior centers and nursing homes, small adult day programs are thought to help about 150,000 Americans receive social, intellectual and physical stimulation while living at home.

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.

City's Liberal, but It's No Detroit (, 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.

Is Mayor's Race About Race? (Village Voice, Aug 11, 2005)

California and New York City Most Popular Places People Would Choose to Live, According to Harris Poll on States and Cities in the U.S. (, Aug 11, 2005)
New York City, comes in #1 for the sixth consecutive time as the U.S. city people would choose to live in or near.

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%

City washes its hands of '2nd dirtiest' ranking (, Jun 28, 2005)
New York City sanitation officials were not amused by the report, which ranked the ... Hippie-dippy Portland, with a population of 529,000, won the title of most ...

Class in America (, May 24, 2005)
The New York Times is in the middle of a multi-week series on Class in America.  The articles, interactive graphics, and slide shows can be found at this link, which is expected to be available indefinitely.  See where you rank by checking out your rank in occupational prestige, education, income, and wealth.  Read the articles, including the overview, how class affects health and health care, marriage and religion.

New York City's Population Is Down. Or Is It? (, Apr 27, 2005)
According to figures released yesterday by the United States Census Bureau, New York City lost 5,547 residents last year, bringing its population to 8,104,079 as of last July 1, down from 8,109,626.

Tuberculosis reaches 13 year low (, Apr 27, 2005)
Tuberculosis (TB) has reached a historic low in New York City with 1,039 cases reported in 2004, according to preliminary data presented today by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). This represents a 9% drop from the previous year and an overall decline of 73% since the peak of the epidemic in 1992, when more than 3,800 cases were reported.

Studies: Gentrification a boost for everyone (, Apr 27, 2005)
Everyone knows gentrification uproots the urban poor with higher rents, higher taxes and $4 lattes. It's the lament of community organizers, the theme of the 2004 film Barbershop 2 and the guilty assumption of the yuppies moving in.

Albeit Late, State Data to Go Online in March (, Feb 23, 2005)
A much-anticipated $45 million project to post school data on a public Web site has been delayed by at least a month while state officials comb through the first version of the database to assure its accuracy.

More Africans Enter U.S. Than in Days of Slavery (, Feb 21, 2005)
For the first time, more blacks are coming to the United States from Africa than during the slave trade. Since 1990, according to immigration figures, more have arrived voluntarily than the total who disembarked in chains before the United States outlawed international slave trafficking in 1807. More have been coming here annually - about 50,000 legal immigrants - than in any of the peak years of the middle passage across the Atlantic, and more have migrated here from Africa since 1990 than in nearly the entire preceding two centuries. New York State draws the most; Nigeria and Ghana are among the top 20 sources of immigrants to New York City

Proficiency in English Decreases Over a Decade (, Jan 25, 2005)
The number of New York adults who have a problem speaking English increased by 30 percent between 1990 and 2000, to more than 1.5 million throughout the city, according to figures released by the city yesterday. That amounts to more than one in four adult New Yorkers, and officials said more recent figures show no sign of a decline.

29,393 more N.Y.'ers Make that 8,115,135 stories in the Naked City. (, Jan 25, 2005)
The U.S. Census Bureau has formally upped the city's population - from 8,085,742 to 8,115,135 -after a challenge that should net the city $15 million in extra federal dollars over the next five years, city officials said yesterday.

New Study Reveals America's Best and Worst Cities for Sleep (, Jan 25, 2005)
A new study unveils the best and worst cities in America for getting a restful night's sleep. Although New York City is notorious for being "the city that never sleeps," it ranked 6th among the worst cities for sleep, while an analysis of recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, along with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau, identified Detroit as the worst city in America for getting sleep.

Russians Marry Early (, Dec 23, 2004)
By the time they turn 40, only 4 percent of women born in Russia or one of the other former Soviet republics have never married, compared with 15 percent for all women in that age group in the United States. Even among other ethnic groups, they stand out, with a rate of never-married women that is less than half that of foreign-born Chinese and a third that of foreign-born Hispanics, according to an analysis of 2000 census data for The New York Times.

Afghans in Queens (, Dec 23, 2004)
Choosing Clothes, but Not Husbands; Afghan Women Strive to Mix New Liberties and Old Beliefs.

Mexicans in New York City (, Dec 23, 2004)
According to the 2000 United States census, 186,872 Mexicans live in the city, more than triple the number a decade earlier; in addition at least 100,000 or more are undocumented immigrants. Many are doing jobs no one else wants, for pay few would accept. Many Mexicans in New York bear, in addition to the freight of economic pressure, the fear of deportation.

UAlbany (, Dec 23, 2004)
Study finds rapid acceptance of English by children and grandchildren of immigrants

Red vs. Blue: Demography and Politics (, Nov 16, 2004)
NPR's Eric Weiner reports that some political observers say the winning factor in President Bush's re-election wasn't the war in Iraq or "moral values," but the differences in birth rates between the so-called red and blue states.

Redistricting and the New Demographics (, Apr 14, 2003)
Redistricting and the New Demographics: Defining “communities of interest in New York City.”

U.S. Census Bureau to Count Americans in France, Kuwait and Mexico (, Mar 19, 2003)
The Commerce Department's Census Bureau said it will conduct test censuses in France, Kuwait and Mexico in 2004 as the first step toward determining the feasibility of counting Americans overseas in the 2010 Census. From U.S. Census Bureau News.

Census Bureau to Test Changes in Questionnaire including Changes to the Race Question, New Response Technology (, Mar 19, 2003)
The Census Bureau announced that beginning January 2003 it will conduct the 2003 National Census Test, a nationwide survey of a quarter-million homes designed to test changes to questions about race and Hispanic origin and study new response technologies. From U.S. Census Bureau.

Census Definitive Study of Segregation, See Where New York Ranks [pdf] (, Mar 19, 2003)

Drugs in New York [pdf] (, Nov 1, 2002)
An overview of drug use statistics and drug prevention efforts in the state of New York. From the Office of National Drug Control Policy.