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The Richest Neighborhoods Emptied Out Most as Coronavirus Hit New York City
The New York Times via Yahoo! News ^ | May 16, 2020 | by Kevin Quealy, The New York Times

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: china; newyork; pandemic; virus
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1 posted on 05/17/2020 5:14:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But I thought that these wealthy liberals cared about people and their community.


2 posted on 05/17/2020 5:19:11 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: OttawaFreeper

and another question is... WHERE DID THEY GO???


3 posted on 05/17/2020 5:24:25 AM PDT by DOC44
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


4 posted on 05/17/2020 5:24:26 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will they go back? Don’t need no stinking liberals staying in my hood.


5 posted on 05/17/2020 5:27:32 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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To: DOC44

Floriduh!

I saw some yesterday. They’re happy to have left and may never go back.


6 posted on 05/17/2020 5:29:21 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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“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.


7 posted on 05/17/2020 5:33:34 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: petitfour

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.


8 posted on 05/17/2020 5:34:11 AM PDT by DOC44
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To: DOC44

called hemorrhoids


9 posted on 05/17/2020 5:34:49 AM PDT by DOC44
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To: petitfour
I saw some yesterday. They’re happy to have left and may never go back.

Are they sticking around to VOTE in NOVEMBER?

10 posted on 05/17/2020 5:37:45 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bump


11 posted on 05/17/2020 5:44:25 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: stars & stripes forever
Are they sticking around to VOTE in NOVEMBER?

Of course, and if they don't, someone will still vote democrap for them
12 posted on 05/17/2020 5:46:31 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I see that a couple of New Yorkers just bought a house up here in the hinter woods. Word at the General Store is that they are attorneys who can work remotely and are fleeing deblassio's steaming viral load.

They'll probably infect the hills here with their stinking leftism.

13 posted on 05/17/2020 5:48:52 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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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?


14 posted on 05/17/2020 5:54:36 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


15 posted on 05/17/2020 6:09:07 AM PDT by Bernard ("I don't know if that's true:" Schiff said.)
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To: DOC44
and another question is... WHERE DID THEY GO???

To their summer houses in Maine.

16 posted on 05/17/2020 6:09:47 AM PDT by SIDENET (ISAIAH 5:20)
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To: DOC44

Hope they didn’t come to Texas. We don’t need anymore infections.


17 posted on 05/17/2020 6:33:04 AM PDT by abbastanza
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To: stars & stripes forever

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.


18 posted on 05/17/2020 6:33:37 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
That the well-to-do can afford to get out is news?

Class warfare brought to you by the Slimes. How very Stalinist.

19 posted on 05/17/2020 6:43:20 AM PDT by SKI NOW
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
When does the looting and squatting begin?

Some swank places and easy pickin's there, and the cops busy elsewhere.

20 posted on 05/17/2020 6:46:38 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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