Posted on 12/18/2005 3:44:19 AM PST by baystaterebel
Readers might have noticed a front-page article in the New York Times a week or so ago, reporting that Manhattan was in the midst of a baby boom. In the past five years, it seems, the number of borough children under age 5, including many in tony neighborhoods, has risen about 26%. This was taken as a sign, perhaps, that women can have it all: work, children and a hip urban lifestyle.
As with many articles in the Paper of Record, the story's prominence might have had less to do with its import than with the desire to flatter the publication's base readership, many of whose members, no doubt, were simultaneously nodding through the article's observations while spooning cereal into the mouths of their city tykes. Yes, there are more preschoolers in Manhattan these days, as there are in a number of other American cities. But the questions is whether they'll stay.
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One could reasonably ask are these woman having babies out of maternal instinct, or is it more a matter of accessorising their lifestyle?
A bunch of Sara Jessica Parker wannabe's.......
Sara Jessica Parker? Try Murphy Brown. This is old.
What's a "tony neighborhood"?
Nodding as the Nanny shovels cereal into the baby's mouth.
What's a "tony neighborhood"?
i guarantee you that a good majority of these people who choose to raise their families in manhattan, to paraphrase curtis sliwa (guardian angel leader and wabc radio morning host), have their summer and winter daschas in outer whitelandia; in other words the best of both worlds.
ggod for them.
A neighborhood where pretentious people live.
They can have it, as long as they and their overdressed, spoiled kids stay out of my mass-produced Southern suburb ;-).
I figured this one out from raw Census data back in May.
As the parent of two of the under five's myself this topic is of great interest to me. I think you can thank Rudy Giuliani - he made Manhattan a kid friendly place.
As the author pointed out, there was an earlier yuppie baby boom in the late 80's and early 90's. However, the city was so crime ridden that parents moved out by the time the child was walking.
Don't be fooled by all the "creative" mommies on urbanbaby. The real prime economic mover here are the megabucks being pumped out by Wall Street.
It used to be an Anthony neighborhood, but their publicists all agreed that they'd appear less pretentious if they went with a brand name that suggested easy familiarity...
LOL. You owe me a new keyboard.
Among the site's products are booties with a skull-and-crossbones design and a picture book called "Urban Babies Wear Black." The site announces: "We celebrate individuality rather than conformity, creativity rather than convention."
Wow.
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Oh my God! Not your office I hope.
A high end neighborhood with household $250,000 and up.
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