Posted on 05/02/2015 3:00:40 PM PDT by proxy_user
Over the past decade or so as $10 million apartments have prevailed in New York and more and more neighborhoods have been given over to the kind of luxury shopping required to fill them, it has been common to say that the city has turned into a “playground for the rich.” At the same time, of course, New York has turned into a playground of the more literal kind, with a child-centric ethos bearing well-established variants of urban nuisance: stroller gridlock in gentrifying areas, car services that cater to 5-year-olds, sidewalk whining that in some cases becomes its own source of noise pollution.
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It is not well-to-do families in TriBeCa who are responsible for this waning, as any casual examination of Greenwich Street at 3 p.m. and a look at the outsize apartments in real estate listings might make evident. TriBeCa, in fact, logged one of the highest birthrates in the city. In 2013, the highest rates of multiple births occurred on the Upper East Side and in Brooklyn Heights. Between 2004 and 2013, of all the racial groups that the city’s Health Department measures, birthrates increased only among whites.
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I think NYC is a great place to raise kids if you can afford it. I was tempted when my kids were young, perhaps I made a mistake in turning down the job offer.
If if if……
“If my aunt had wheels, she’d be a taxi,” said the great Fritz Perls.
Blacks also have the highest abortion rate
“But surprisingly, the lowest birth rate in NYC is among blacks.”
Not surprising when you realize that more than 1 in 3 pregnancies in NYC among black women end in abortion.
The echo baby boom is reproducing. My children’s friends are reproducing big time. I see families of three four five and six.
The wealthy have been reproducing for a while.
No longer is there belief in that zero population garbage
The wealthy reproducing is a very good thing.
That’s how nature and evolution are supposed to work.
A communist state, a great place to raise kids?
Sure you’re on the correct site?
We’re conservatives here.
And NY ain’t no conservative state.
You’d have to pay me to live there or even visit.
A relative just returned from a trip to nyc and a week after returning, realized her card number was stolen.
Yeah great place to raise kids /s.
My cousin who lives in NYC has 2 childhood friends who married billionaires and they live in NYC. She makes about $500/night babysitting their kids.
It is a great place to raise kids if you can afford it.
New York City is expensive so it make sense that only the rich are having kids.
Only reason the black birthrate is so low in NYC is that the black abortion rate in NYC is so high.
Art galleries, concert halls, cultural stuff you can’t get anywhere else. I doubt that Beethoven was a communist.
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