Posted on 05/20/2008 2:23:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
NEW YORK -- A decade ago, 3-year-old Theo Carlston may have been considered part of an endangered species: a white toddler in Manhattan.
But here he is: blond, soft-eyed, sweet-faced, building a fort at a members-only indoor playground in fashionable SoHo neighborhood, surrounded by others like him.
Once upon a time, Manhattan was an island of adult thrills and vices. In the national imagination, it was a place of artists, musicians, socialites, Wall Street bankers -- or of hustlers, runaways, addicts, murderers. But it was not on the radar of the typical white, middle-class couple as a place to raise children.
Now demographers say Manhattan is increasingly a borough of babies, and more and more of them are white and well-off.
The number of children younger than 5 in Manhattan has increased about 30 percent since 2000, said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. The increase is driven by white toddlers, whose numbers have gone up by 60 percent, according to the 2000 census and the 2006 American Community Survey, he said. For the first time since the 1960s, young white children outnumber their black or Hispanic counterparts in Manhattan, demographers say.
"It's surprising," Frey said. "It's a selective part of the white population, a lifestyle of people who want to have children and can afford to live in the city."
Indeed, according to Andrew A. Beveridge, a demographer at Queens College, the median household income for this group of children was $280,000 in 2005.
In a reversal of a decades-long trend of flight to the suburbs, affluent couples are deciding to stay, at a time when crime is low, some schools have improved and urban life has a new allure, said Kenneth T. Jackson
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Keep news like that coming! I mean, I’m a “freerider” so far and I’ve lived in Manhattan (at the Chelsea Hotel and I “lost it” to Billy Idol as an innocent Catholic Southern girl back in ‘86 at the Chelsea) However I’m older now and plan on being in the great NYC for the summer and love the fact that if it’s safe enough for angelic children, it’s safe for us! I live in England now and have to go back to the States every couple of years to renew my visa. Now, I came over here from New Orleans but my best friends from there who are native New Yorkers now live in NYC! What a great set-up! Summer of ‘06 was the first time I had been back since ‘93 and I was elated at how much better it was!!! I can’t wait to go back in the next month or so...
If they can afford to live in the city (in a safe neighborhood, that is) I'd hardly call them middle class, and the $280K figure proves it. But, then, I guess that is all relative. $150K around here is upper middle.
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Those poor kids. Growing up in the stretch of the country around DC/Bawtimaw, Philthy, Noo Yawk, Joiseh, and Bahstahn is like a death sentence.
This is all true. My daughter is a fitness trainer at a gym on Central Park West at 73 Street. All of her 30-something clients either have babies or are expecting. These are the upwardly mobiles who can afford nannies, private schools and $1000 strollers. Central Park on a sunny day ( I seem to recall those) is teeming with little blond rugrats.
Umm, sorry! It’s nearly 11:00 over here in Blighty and I’ve been out for a couple of drinks, hiccup! I’m not a groupie slut I swear!!!
I’ve posted some things, when Having Drink Taken, that I later wished I’d kept to myself. Have a good evening :-).
To the extent the article is talking about the last year, I wonder how the real estate market affects this, i.e., the extent to which families might otherwise have moved to the suburbs are staying at least partly because of the difficulties and uncertainties associated with selling their place in NYC and/or buying one in the suburbs.
Thanks! By the way, your screen-name makes me want to ask if you know anything about taxes? I worked over here last summer but when converted to American dollars I don’t think I made enough to file this year so I didn’t...do I have to file even though I haven’t made enough and aren’t in America for the whole of 2007?! Great, if I have to file even though I didn’t make enought I’m gonna get charged, right?! Yikes!
The same thing is happening in Boston.
Take a look at your paycheck stubs (or records, etc.). If you were paid by a corporation and/or you were paid by check or direct deposit instead of cash, my guess would be that you had money withheld. If you don’t file, you’ll never see that money again.
The amount of money you can make and not have to file is quite low. I’d say that if you made any money at all, file. Even now; paying some penalty is better than having the IRS on your tail. If you go to the IRS rather than them having to come after you, you’re much better off. But in any case, you need to take your financial records to someone who knows what they’re doing to get specifics.
“But here he is: blond, soft-eyed, sweet-faced, building a fort at a members-only indoor playground in fashionable SoHo neighborhood, surrounded by others like him.”
And that sums up the problem to so many leftist, how dare white babies be in the “peoples” cities.
On local Black talk station in my town yesterday, the host, a “sister souljah’”, was railing about the gentrification of the in town neighborhoods and how the children of the people who couldn’t afford the property taxes, due to gentrification, were not allowed to pass on the wealth of the now 300k+ homes. 5 minutes later she attacked the tax system as unfair and the “wealthy” estate taxes, not being high enough.
Liberals are as dense as rock.
I have listened to the other sides radio for years, they make Savage and Levin look like Quakers.
I’ve been out of the tax business too long to advise you. I suggest you look at “IRS.gov” and see if the rules for expatriate filers are online.
Wow, they left San Francisco out of that graph. Wonder why?
Haha. What would be interesting to note is whether San Francisco has a higher birth rate than Western European countries.
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Except for your baseball team, I love Boston!
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