Case Study - Cities Changing Over Time - New York

Question 1

What was the population of New York in 1950?

Answer 1

7,895,957

Question 2

What was the population of New York in 2015?

Answer 2

8,582,000

Question 3

What will the population of New York be in 2020?

Answer 3

8,550,971

Question 4

What is the population density of New York per sq mile?

Answer 4

27,000

Question 5

Which areas in New York has the city grown?

Answer 5

Kings County, Queens County and Richmond County

Question 6

Give some facts about housing in New York

Answer 6

• There are 761,000 residential properties in total
• there are less than 400,000 residents
• most properties have five rooms

Question 7

How many hospitals are in New York?

Answer 7

62

Question 8

How many restaurants are in New York?

Answer 8

26,642 restaurants

Question 9

In 2016 what was the poverty rate?

Answer 9

Respectable 19.5% for working age adults

Question 10

How many affordable homes were built to reduce the how many people homeless?

Answer 10

300,000 affordable homes were built to reduce the 63,839 people homeless

Question 11

What is suburbanisation?

Answer 11

People moving from the cities to the suburbs

Question 12

What is reurbanisation?

Answer 12

Where people who used to live in the city move to the countryside then back to the city

Question 13

How many people live in New York?

Answer 13

8.623 million

Question 14

What has led to suburbanisation in New York?

Answer 14

Transport like the rail system and subway which first opened in 1900

Question 15

Why would some rather live on Long Island instead of Manhattan?

Answer 15

You get more space and you can get to Manhattan in 40 minutes

Question 16

What is white flight?

Answer 16

Where white second generation migrants were doing well enough in NYC to move out

Question 17

What happened to New York between 1950 and 1960?

Answer 17

12% of the population was lost

Question 18

Why did people move back to New York after being reurbanised in 1980?

Answer 18

City became safer due to zero tolerance towards crime and the knowledge economy created employment

Question 19

What happened to New York’s population by 1860?

Answer 19

The population went from 60,000 in 1800 to 860,000

Question 20

What triggered the suburbanisation and when?

Answer 20

In 1930 cars and bridges were built so people could leave the center

Question 21

When did white Flight happen?

Answer 21

1950