Posted on 05/17/2020 5:14:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK -- Hundreds of thousands of New York City residents, in particular those from the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods, left as the coronavirus pandemic hit, an analysis of multiple sources of aggregated smartphone location data has found.
Roughly 5% of residents - or about 420,000 people - left the city between March 1 and May 1. In the city’s very wealthiest blocks, in neighborhoods like the Upper East Side, the West Village, SoHo and Brooklyn Heights, residential population decreased by 40% or more, while the rest of the city saw comparably modest changes.
Some of these areas are typically home to lots of students, many of whom left as colleges and universities closed; other residents might have left to care for friends or family members across the country. But, on average, income is a strong simple predictor of a neighborhood’s change: The higher-earning a neighborhood is, the more likely it is to have emptied out.
Relatively few residents from blocks with median household incomes of about $90,000 or less (in the 80th percentile or lower) left New York. This migration out of the city began in mid-March and accelerated in the days after March 15, when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he was closing the city’s schools.
The highest-earning neighborhoods emptied first.
“There is a way that these crises fall with a different weight on people based on social class,” said Kim Phillips-Fein, a history professor at New York University and author of a book about how New York changed during the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. “Even though there’s a strong rhetoric of ‘We’re all in it together,’ that’s not really the case.”
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But I thought that these wealthy liberals cared about people and their community.
and another question is... WHERE DID THEY GO???
I would expect that. Staying in a city during a pandemic is crazy. (See this from the point of the citizen, as every citizen will.) The city is the worst place on Earth (with minor exceptions for volcanoes and nuclear waste dumps). If I had the wherewithal to flee the city and spend the next three months at my summer home in the Hamptons, I’d be gone too.
The idea that people who have options will not exercise those options to their advantage is asking-killers-to-please-not-kill-until-we-get-over-this-virus crazy.
Will they go back? Don’t need no stinking liberals staying in my hood.
Floriduh!
I saw some yesterday. They’re happy to have left and may never go back.
“The Richest Neighborhoods Emptied Out Most as Coronavirus Hit New York City”
Liberals all! But you can bet they’ll be voting the straight democRAT ticket come November.
New Yorkers in FL are called. They come down and don’t go back up and are a pain in the a$$. But they know everything about everything.
called hemorrhoids
Are they sticking around to VOTE in NOVEMBER?
Bump
They'll probably infect the hills here with their stinking leftism.
A big cholera epidemic hit New York City and “the roads, in all directions, were lined with well-filled stagecoaches, livery coaches, private vehicles and equestrians, all panic-struck, fleeing the city, as we may suppose the inhabitants of Pompeii fled when the red lava showered down upon their houses.”
— The New York Evening Post, July 1832
That the well-to-do can afford to get out is news?
Sounds like the kind of neighborhood that Ahmaud Arbery should have gone jogging in. I’m sure those people would be much more sympathetic to window shopping inside the structure than people who live near new construction.
To their summer houses in Maine.
Hope they didn’t come to Texas. We don’t need anymore infections.
With absentee ballots it doesn’t matter... you can vote in two places at once because NY never cleans its rolls. Some even vote in three places at once.
Class warfare brought to you by the Slimes. How very Stalinist.
Some swank places and easy pickin's there, and the cops busy elsewhere.
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