It describes how the Americans fleeing are being replaced by immigrants; the population isn’t dropping, but very much changing.
That is the purpose of “sanctuary cities” - to prevent the high-cost liberal bastions from becoming ghost towns.
Again, I don’t see it. Skyscrapers going up all around me and tall ones too. On 57th St alone there are several 1,000+ foot towers either just built or under construction. My Metro North train is increasingly crowded with working people in business suits. So all those on this thread pumping their fists in delight that NYC is crumbling are falling for fake news.
I detest DeBlasio and his policies like everyone else here and believe that any mayor making his town a sanctuary city for illegal immigration belongs in jail. Maybe NYC gets a bette mayor this year. But I’m not seeing “white flight” from NYC. My company is opening up a third NYC office in the Industry City area of Brooklyn and the growth and gentrification of that area over the past few years has been astonishing.
“...That is the purpose of “sanctuary cities”... prevent high cost liberal bastions from becoming ghost towns...”
You nailed this. The liberal dems are desparate to keep the immigrants coming in to keep their voter base at all costs so will welcome migrant refugee murderers, drug dealers, gang members and thugs - further driving out the stable workers from the cities who are leaving due to the high taxes.
My daughter and son-in-law; both well into starting successful law careers in NYC and now thinking of starting their family are now looking to get out for this exact reason. These are the type of up and coming professionals and also the stable blue collar workers who are needed by the city to sustain its enormous tax requirements to keep the migrants in handouts of food and shelter, etc. This worker base that is now looking to leave in droves as well as the pensioners taking their pensions to Florida. - The city needs this demographic to stay in order to remain viable.
Unsustainable!!! and ridiculously short sighted of DeBlasio, Cuomo, et al. to care only about power to the point that they are perfectly willing to kill the proverbial “goose that lays their golden egg” and explains why the sanctuary city is so necessary for the dems to stay in power.
Also the liberal cities have a low replacement birth rate (I am currently reading “The Big Sort”) due to the abortion rate and high numbers of gays and feminists who are not having children.
All of this is a recipe for disaster for a once beautiful state and city. Liberals poison everything they touch.
Sorry for the rant and the long post. I was born and raised in the southern tier of NYS - now live in the capital region and am sad to see our beautiful state being ruined.