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Welcome to New York City, population 8,008,278.
Minimum. That's the Census Bureau's unadjusted count. Or not-entirely-adjusted: there may or may not be 9 percent more people here than in 1990, but the government found, and sent census forms to, a lot more households than it did ten years ago.
And, of course, that's "population" as in "people who live here, get their mail here, etc." and doesn't count the millions who are only here during the daytime.
I work in the middle of all this hubbub: Times Square, a monument to something or other, sculpted in steel, glass, and neon.
Busy, busy, busy, as the Bokononists say.
Minimum. That's the Census Bureau's unadjusted count. Or not-entirely-adjusted: there may or may not be 9 percent more people here than in 1990, but the government found, and sent census forms to, a lot more households than it did ten years ago.
And, of course, that's "population" as in "people who live here, get their mail here, etc." and doesn't count the millions who are only here during the daytime.
I work in the middle of all this hubbub: Times Square, a monument to something or other, sculpted in steel, glass, and neon.
Busy, busy, busy, as the Bokononists say.
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