We drew inspiration for The “New” New Yorkers from a report published by the New York Department of City Planning, Population Bureau, titled The Newest New Yorkers 2000: Immigrant New York in the New Millennium.

The report, which is based on the results of the 10-year census, found that the city's population is at an all-time high.

Of the more than 8 million people living in New York City, nearly 2.5 million are foreign born.

    
    Data drawn from The Newest New Yorkers 2000: Immigrant New York in the New Millenium, New York Department of City Planning.  
  Nearly 43 percent of New York City's foreign-born arrived in the United States during the last 15 years.

Newcomers from Latin America account for nearly one-third of the city's immigrants, and close to half of immigrants nationwide. In the last decade, Mexcians have been arriving in New York in large numbers. Since 1990, the number of Mexican immigrants in the city has grown by 275 percent. 		 
  Data drawn from The Newest New Yorkers 2000: Immigrant New York in the New Millenium, New York Department of City Planning.      

 

But it's more than just immigrants who move to New York City. In 2003, 451,601 students enrolled at over 60 colleges and universities in the city, including students from all fifty states and around the world.

Moreover, the city added over 441,000 jobs during the 1990s, drawing job-seekers from across the country.

In 2000, more than a quarter of the people living in New York City had lived in another county or state in 1995.

  Data drawn from the 2003 Annual Report on Data Indicators, New York City Department of City Planning
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