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Originally Posted by jd3189
The change here wasn't really significant, if any. As soon as the first US census was made, NYC had already overtaken Philly as the largest city. Things just stayed like that ever since.
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I don't agree. New York was only larger than Philadelphia on the first census because of technicality. If you compared the population in 1790 of Philadelphia with present day borders versus New York with present day borders then Philly would be the largest city.
Three of the 10 largest cities in the 1790 census are within present day borders of Philadelphia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest...by_decade#1790
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