Today there are 150,000 fewer children living in New York City than on the eve of the pandemic—a nearly 9% drop. For context, the five boroughs lost three-and-a-half times as many kids in the four years after 2020 as they did in the preceding ten. The number of children in the city had been on a volatile but downward path since peaking in 2000, but the …
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