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Originally Posted by Docere
Manufacturing employment:
Los Angeles 476,000 6.9%
Chicago 406,000 8.2%
New York 353,000 3.4%
Toronto (GTHA) 321,000 8.1%
Detroit 237,000 10.9%
Montreal 208,000 9%
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Interesting how the GTHA is pretty close to the much larger NYC metro area in terms of the numbers employed in manufacturing (and share in Chicago is basically identical). |
On this forum, and in the economic development lobbying community, people beat Toronto and Canadian cities over the head for having bad infrastructure for goods movement/logistics but, honestly, at least by North American standards, Toronto is built reasonably well to move trucks and especially freight trains around.
New York is uniquely awful for logistics and, by extension, for manufacturing. If you want to drive a truck across the NYC metro, you have to rely on a handful of expensive toll bridges and you have to drive on one of the traffic-choked Robert Moses-era highways. I don't think there's a major freight rail line through NYC; they mostly just terminate on the New Jersey side with all last mile deliveries to the city and Long Island being done by truck, again on those old freeways and toll bridges. The airports seem bad for air freight too - congested and far away from logistics facilities.
Did any city deindustrialize as completely as New York? Maybe as a percentage there are starker examples, but in absolute numbers, New York has to be up there in total jobs lost between, say, 1950-present.