An Exodus of Children from New York City
The five boroughs lost 150,000 children in four years
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 …
