Didn’t We Think That We Are What We Thought We Were?

Or maybe New York City is not as wonderful as everyone there believes it is:

For many New Yorkers, what seems to be at stake is nothing less than the city’s supersize reputation. In a place that likes to dream big, an increase of about 167,000 people over 10 years feels anemic and, to some, embarrassing.

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Still, there are signs that after growing by 9 percent from 1990 to 2000, New York’s population boom might have begun to ease.

To that last point, we’re still waiting . . .

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