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New York's higher unemployment isn't its mix of workers. Give every kind of New Yorker, by race, education, age and citizenship, the nation's rate, and the city would sit about level with it. The gap is within groups.
Group by group: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
Group by group: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
November 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
New York's higher unemployment isn't its mix of workers. Give every kind of New Yorker, by race, education, age and citizenship, the nation's rate, and the city would sit about level with it. The gap is within groups.
Group by group: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
Group by group: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
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Marathon Sunday breaks subway ridership records in NYC
Marathon Sunday breaks subway ridership records in NYC
www.nydailynews.com
November 3, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Marathon Sunday breaks subway ridership records in NYC
New York's murder rate has fallen 88% since 1990. It is still the highest of five big cities, at more than three times London's.
Each police force's own count, 2016 and 2025: sparkydata.dev/articles/murder-… 📊
Each police force's own count, 2016 and 2025: sparkydata.dev/articles/murder-… 📊
November 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
New York's murder rate has fallen 88% since 1990. It is still the highest of five big cities, at more than three times London's.
Each police force's own count, 2016 and 2025: sparkydata.dev/articles/murder-… 📊
Each police force's own count, 2016 and 2025: sparkydata.dev/articles/murder-… 📊
Two million ballots for mayor sounds like a record. As a count it's the most since 1969. Per adult citizen, every presidential race since 1990 drew more, and so did the mayoral race of 1993.
Ballots since 1953: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-off… 📊
Ballots since 1953: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-off… 📊
November 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Two million ballots for mayor sounds like a record. As a count it's the most since 1969. Per adult citizen, every presidential race since 1990 drew more, and so did the mayoral race of 1993.
Ballots since 1953: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-off… 📊
Ballots since 1953: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-off… 📊
New York's arrivals from abroad are coming from somewhere new. Asia still sends the most, but people who lived in South America or Africa a year earlier went from about a sixth of these arrivals in 2015 to more than a quarter in 2024.
Region by region: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-is-… 📊
Region by region: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-is-… 📊
November 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
New York's arrivals from abroad are coming from somewhere new. Asia still sends the most, but people who lived in South America or Africa a year earlier went from about a sixth of these arrivals in 2015 to more than a quarter in 2024.
Region by region: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-is-… 📊
Region by region: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-is-… 📊
In a presidential year, schooling divides New York's reported voting most. In a governor's race, age does: about 12 points between oldest and youngest with a president on the ballot, 19 in a midterm.
Four divides, side by side: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-vot… 📊
Four divides, side by side: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-vot… 📊
October 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM
In a presidential year, schooling divides New York's reported voting most. In a governor's race, age does: about 12 points between oldest and youngest with a president on the ballot, 19 in a midterm.
Four divides, side by side: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-vot… 📊
Four divides, side by side: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-vot… 📊
Until 2019, 96 in 100 New York City voters said they voted in person on Election Day. By 2024, about half did; most of the rest voted early or by mail.
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/how-new… 📊
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/how-new… 📊
October 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Until 2019, 96 in 100 New York City voters said they voted in person on Election Day. By 2024, about half did; most of the rest voted early or by mail.
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/how-new… 📊
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/how-new… 📊
A third of New York City's adult citizens were born abroad and naturalized, nearly twice the share of 1990. Then it settled: between 31% and 33% in every yearly estimate since 2012.
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-can… 📊
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-can… 📊
October 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM
A third of New York City's adult citizens were born abroad and naturalized, nearly twice the share of 1990. Then it settled: between 31% and 33% in every yearly estimate since 2012.
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-can… 📊
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-can… 📊
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Congestion pricing is paying for subway elevators.
23 stations will be made accessible with its money.
Read the story from The City Reporter.
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/15/c...
23 stations will be made accessible with its money.
Read the story from The City Reporter.
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/15/c...
October 28, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Congestion pricing is paying for subway elevators.
23 stations will be made accessible with its money.
Read the story from The City Reporter.
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/15/c...
23 stations will be made accessible with its money.
Read the story from The City Reporter.
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/15/c...
Working from home is a Manhattan habit: 18% of its residents, against 6.7% in the Bronx. Jobs explain part of it, since Bronx residents hold fewer of the jobs that went remote. In the same industries they are home less often too.
By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #econsky
By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #econsky
October 28, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Working from home is a Manhattan habit: 18% of its residents, against 6.7% in the Bronx. Jobs explain part of it, since Bronx residents hold fewer of the jobs that went remote. In the same industries they are home less often too.
By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #econsky
By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #econsky
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💡 As NYC looks to expand early childhood education programs, IBO's recent report identifies possible challenges with the current process for matching families to seats, especially for 3-K. buff.ly/g3XsP76 #education #publicschools #nycschools
October 27, 2026 at 5:03 PM
💡 As NYC looks to expand early childhood education programs, IBO's recent report identifies possible challenges with the current process for matching families to seats, especially for 3-K. buff.ly/g3XsP76 #education #publicschools #nycschools
$25.43.
That is what the Council bill's $30 minimum wage for 2030 is worth in 2024 dollars, at an assumed rate of inflation. Two in five private-sector workers in the city were paid less than that in 2024.
Where the bill's line lands: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky
That is what the Council bill's $30 minimum wage for 2030 is worth in 2024 dollars, at an assumed rate of inflation. Two in five private-sector workers in the city were paid less than that in 2024.
Where the bill's line lands: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky
October 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
$25.43.
That is what the Council bill's $30 minimum wage for 2030 is worth in 2024 dollars, at an assumed rate of inflation. Two in five private-sector workers in the city were paid less than that in 2024.
Where the bill's line lands: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky
That is what the Council bill's $30 minimum wage for 2030 is worth in 2024 dollars, at an assumed rate of inflation. Two in five private-sector workers in the city were paid less than that in 2024.
Where the bill's line lands: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky
New York's off-year vote came back. Last year's mayoral race drew 39 ballots per hundred adult citizens, nearly double 2021's and the most for a mayor since 1993. But look at the governor's line: up in 2018, back down in 2022.
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-off… 📊
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-off… 📊
October 26, 2026 at 2:25 PM
New York's off-year vote came back. Last year's mayoral race drew 39 ballots per hundred adult citizens, nearly double 2021's and the most for a mayor since 1993. But look at the governor's line: up in 2018, back down in 2022.
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-off… 📊
The long view: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-off… 📊
For fifty years New York's unemployment rate has run above the nation's, in 87% of months since 1976. September's gap, six tenths of a point, is the narrowest since February 2025.
The city and the nation, year by year: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
The city and the nation, year by year: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
October 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM
For fifty years New York's unemployment rate has run above the nation's, in 87% of months since 1976. September's gap, six tenths of a point, is the narrowest since February 2025.
The city and the nation, year by year: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
The city and the nation, year by year: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
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The City Reporter’s analysis of MTA elevator-availability data for a transit hub that served more than 6.1 million riders last year found that the lifts slid from being in service 99% of the time in April to 56% in August.
New Subway Elevators at Yankee Stadium Slump With Outages For Months
One of the lifts will be out of service until the new year, the MTA says.
buff.ly
October 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The City Reporter’s analysis of MTA elevator-availability data for a transit hub that served more than 6.1 million riders last year found that the lifts slid from being in service 99% of the time in April to 56% in August.
In New York's midterms, most adult citizens under 30 don't report voting: 28% said they did in the last four, against 47% of people 65 and over. With a president on the ballot, nearly half of the under-30s do.
By age: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-vot… 📊
By age: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-vot… 📊
October 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM
In New York's midterms, most adult citizens under 30 don't report voting: 28% said they did in the last four, against 47% of people 65 and over. With a president on the ballot, nearly half of the under-30s do.
By age: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-vot… 📊
By age: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-vot… 📊
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Just months after the MTA installed five new elevators at the station, several were sidelined during baseball season, transit authority data shows — and one lift is expected to remain out of service until winter 2027 because of power problems.
New Subway Elevators at Yankee Stadium Slump With Outages For Months
One of the lifts will be out of service until the new year, the MTA says.
buff.ly
October 23, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Just months after the MTA installed five new elevators at the station, several were sidelined during baseball season, transit authority data shows — and one lift is expected to remain out of service until winter 2027 because of power problems.
Fare evasion changes the answer. On paid rides alone, subway grand larceny looks level with 2019 and robbery higher. Count every entry, paid or not, and grand larceny is 13% lower, perhaps by chance, and robbery about the same.
How we measured it: sparkydata.dev/articles/is-the-… 📊 #statsky
How we measured it: sparkydata.dev/articles/is-the-… 📊 #statsky
October 23, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Fare evasion changes the answer. On paid rides alone, subway grand larceny looks level with 2019 and robbery higher. Count every entry, paid or not, and grand larceny is 13% lower, perhaps by chance, and robbery about the same.
How we measured it: sparkydata.dev/articles/is-the-… 📊 #statsky
How we measured it: sparkydata.dev/articles/is-the-… 📊 #statsky
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CUNY CARES focuses on helping Bronx students meet four essential needs in an era of skyrocketing rents and new SNAP and Medicaid restrictions: food, health care, housing and mental health.
CUNY Expands One-Stop Shop for Help With Housing, Food Aid and Health Care
More than 1,000 college students in The Bronx regained their SNAP benefits through the CUNY CARES program last year, the university said.
buff.ly
October 22, 2026 at 1:53 PM
CUNY CARES focuses on helping Bronx students meet four essential needs in an era of skyrocketing rents and new SNAP and Medicaid restrictions: food, health care, housing and mental health.
Call 911 in the Bronx with a life-threatening emergency and the average wait for an ambulance is 12:16, the city's slowest. Every borough's ambulances got slower in fiscal 2026; Queens and the Bronx the most.
By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-amb… 📊
By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-amb… 📊
October 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Call 911 in the Bronx with a life-threatening emergency and the average wait for an ambulance is 12:16, the city's slowest. Every borough's ambulances got slower in fiscal 2026; Queens and the Bronx the most.
By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-amb… 📊
By borough: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-amb… 📊
You'd expect a minimum wage that nearly doubled after inflation to lift the middle. In New York it didn't: the median worker earns about what the median worker earned in 1989.
The floor, the middle and the $30 bill's line: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky
The floor, the middle and the $30 bill's line: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky
October 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
You'd expect a minimum wage that nearly doubled after inflation to lift the middle. In New York it didn't: the median worker earns about what the median worker earned in 1989.
The floor, the middle and the $30 bill's line: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky
The floor, the middle and the $30 bill's line: sparkydata.dev/articles/paid-un… 📊 #econsky
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NYC’s subsidized childcare waitlist is moving, starting with 3K families gothamist.com/news/nycs-su...
NYC’s subsidized childcare waitlist is moving, starting with 3K families
The city notified 3,000 families on the waitlist that they were eligible for a voucher.
gothamist.com
October 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM
NYC’s subsidized childcare waitlist is moving, starting with 3K families gothamist.com/news/nycs-su...
New York's unemployment runs above the nation's, and most of the extra is spells of six months or more.
Short spells are about as common here as anywhere; six-month spells are twice as common, 2.2 in every 100 workers against 1.1.
By length of spell: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
Short spells are about as common here as anywhere; six-month spells are twice as common, 2.2 in every 100 workers against 1.1.
By length of spell: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
October 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
New York's unemployment runs above the nation's, and most of the extra is spells of six months or more.
Short spells are about as common here as anywhere; six-month spells are twice as common, 2.2 in every 100 workers against 1.1.
By length of spell: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
Short spells are about as common here as anywhere; six-month spells are twice as common, 2.2 in every 100 workers against 1.1.
By length of spell: sparkydata.dev/articles/the-lon… 📊 #econsky
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The project at 100 Gold is expected to bring about 8,080 residents to the neighborhood, increasing the Financial District’s population by about 10%. That could just be the beginning of a population boom.
The Densest Apartment Building in the US Could Be Coming to FiDi
The proposed development at 100 Gold Street could hold 4,000 units across two towers, one of which would rival the Empire State Building in height.
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October 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The project at 100 Gold is expected to bring about 8,080 residents to the neighborhood, increasing the Financial District’s population by about 10%. That could just be the beginning of a population boom.
Pedal-bike deaths in New York fell from 28 in 2019 to 7 in 2025. Before anyone claims a win: e-bikes got their own police label only in August 2019, so some riders may be filed elsewhere. Bicycles and e-devices together: still up.
How we checked: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #statsky
How we checked: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #statsky
October 20, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Pedal-bike deaths in New York fell from 28 in 2019 to 7 in 2025. Before anyone claims a win: e-bikes got their own police label only in August 2019, so some riders may be filed elsewhere. Bicycles and e-devices together: still up.
How we checked: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #statsky
How we checked: sparkydata.dev/articles/who-sti… 📊 #statsky