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New New Yorkers and Their Favorite Neighborhoods

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For hundreds of years New York City has been the top re-location destination for the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”  In 2012, it’s good to know that the tradition is alive and well.  Using data from the American Community Survey, WNYC has compiled a map showing where New Yorkers have moved to from other states and abroad.  It’s no surprise that the city’s newest residents are attracted to Manhattan.

In pop culture Manhattan is usually the only borough mentioned when referring to New York City (although Brooklyn is increasingly getting its own cred) so naturally new residents searching for housing would look to the island first. But daring newcomers (or just those looking for a better rent to square footage ratio) have flocked to areas in the outer boroughs such as Hunter’s Point, Sunnyside, Maspeth and East Williamsburg in large numbers.

It seems that there are large pockets of new New Yorkers around universities, especially in the neighborhoods bordering New York University and Columbia University.  According to WNYC, “more than 20 percent of the new residents in a census tract centered around University Place and 12th Street, near Union Square, moved to the neighborhood from another state.”  Given the fact that there are four NYU dorms in the Union Square area it’s no surprise that there is such a large percentage of new residents are from out of state.

There are also high concentrations of new residents from abroad in the East Village and Morningside Heights, no doubt attracted to these neighborhoods due to the international prestige of nearby NYU and Columbia.  Midtown, Chelsea and Lincoln Square also have large numbers of new residents from abroad.  I would have guessed that ethnic neighborhoods such as Chinatown and Jackson Heights would have had larger percentages of residents from abroad but these communities only had a modest 2.6%x and 3.7% respectively.

Check out the WNYC’s full map here.  Is your ‘hood on the map?  Are you a new New Yorker? Let us know!


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