Chapter 4 "Population and Consumption"

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Wikipedia

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The population in New York City is massive. Since many of the financial people live in New York City, so do others. Architects, Newspaper journalists, entrepreneurs, all live within the City. The long history that it represents shows that people, such as immigrants from the 1700s-1900's brought a population boom that used more resources than ever to build housing and urban areas.

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New York's two key demographic features are its population density and cultural diversity. The city's population density of 26,403 people per square mile (10,194/km²), makes it the densest of any American municipality with a population above 100,000.^[15] Manhattan's population density is 66,940 people per square mile (25,846/km²), highest of any county in the United States.^[16][17]

New York City is multicultural. About 36% of the city's population is foreign-born,^[18] one of the highest among US cities. The ten nations constituting the largest sources of modern immigration to New York City are the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Guyana, Mexico, Ecuador, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, and Russia.^[19]

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The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel.^[20] It is also home to nearly a quarter of the nation's Indian Americans and 15% of allKorean Americans^[21][22] and the largest Asian Indian population in the Western Hemisphere; the largest African American community of any city in the country; and including 6Chinatowns in the city proper,^[23] comprised as of 2008 a population of 659,596 overseas Chinese,^[24] the largest outside of Asia. New York City alone, according to the 2010 Census, has now become home to more than one million Asian Americans, greater than the combined totals of San Francisco and Los Angeles.^[25] New York contains the highest total Asian population of any U.S. city proper.^[26] 6.0% of New York City is of Chinese ethnicity, with about forty percent of them living in the borough of Queens alone. Koreans make up 1.2% of the city's population, and Japanese at 0.3%. Filipinos are the largest southeast Asian ethnic group at 0.8%, followed by Vietnamese who make up only 0.2% of New York City's population. Indians are the largest South Asian group, comprising 2.4% of the city's population, and Bangladeshis and Pakistanis at 0.7% and 0.5%, respectively.^[27]

The nine largest ethnic groups as of the 2005 census estimates are: African American, African or Caribbean, Puerto Ricans, Italians, West Indians, Dominicans, Chinese, Irish,Russian, and German.^[28][29] The Puerto Rican population of New York City is the largest outside Puerto Rico.^[30] Italians emigrated to the city in large numbers in the early 20th century, establishing several "Little Italies". The Irish also have a notable presence, along with Germans.

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