Posted Mar 24, 2011, 6:15 PM
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/c...Yg4DVSAmat8HdK
City to census: Where’d all the people go?
By DAVID SEIFMAN and BOB FREDERICKS
March 24, 2011
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Ride the No. 7 — New York’s ghost train!
Perplexed city planners today said federal bean counters came up a several hundred thousand short in the latest U.S. Census, and that their data incredibly suggests entire neighborhoods along the Flushing local are a virtual moonscape.
The feds say Brooklyn’s population grew by a scant 1.6 percent while Queens’ barely budged, up just .1 percent, which translates to 1,300 people since 2000. Other boroughs averaged about a 4 percent jump.
"I’m flabbergasted, I know they made a big, big mistake," said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.
Overall, the city claims New York’s population is 8.4 million, compared to the census bureau’s estimate of 8.175 million .
The discrepancy could mean hundreds of millions in lost federal aid, and city officials vowed to fight to force the feds to revise the numbers upward.
City officials say other census numbers simply don’t add up. They point out that about 170,000 new housing units have sprung up in the past decade – while the census says the population increased by only about 166,000.
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