This headline should be in the Hall of Journalism Shame. Buried in the article we find that in 2019, NYC lost 7,900 people, in 2020, NYC lost 110,000 people, and in 2021 fewer than 1% of those people returned!!!!!!!!!!
OMG what HORSE CR**
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It’s the new math. Put a happy face on the population decline.
This headline should be in the Hall of Journalism Shame. Buried in the article we find that in 2019, NYC lost 7,900 people, in 2020, NYC lost 110,000 people, and in 2021 fewer than 1% of those people returned!!!!!!!!!!
You have misread the article which compares apples to oranges.
The 7,900 was referring to two months in 2019 (which makes no sense as a comparison), to 110,000 in all of 2020 (I would have thought higher) and then jumps back to say 2,100 have come back.
NYC was actually growing prior to 2020, so the 7,900 loss in 2019 does not make sense.
I tried to find birth and death data for NYC, but the city’s stat page only goes to 2017.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/data-sets/vital-statistics-data.page