UES Loses Residents Amid Manhattan Population Boom
A new report shows Manhattan is alive and well, post-pandemic — but New Yorkers haven’t returned to the pre-pandemic level on UES.
| 16 Jan 2023 | 01:50
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The Upper East Side has lost locals, according to a population report released by Placer.ai at the start of the new year.
From November 2019 to October 2022, the Upper East Side saw an overall decline in “domestic net migration,” ranging from a 3.7% drop in a swath parallel with Central Park’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir (zip code 10128), to a less than 1% increase in a stretch farther south (zip code 10075). Across the park, it’s a different story: the Upper West Side is listed as the most popular of six “top destination neighborhoods,” with one pocket on the Hudson River (zip code 10069) seeing a 30.7% “domestic net migration” increase over the same time period.
In a matter of months at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, 8.1% of Manhattan’s population fled the borough, according to the report. “But over the summer of 2020, the tide began to turn — and by October 2022, Manhattan had more than recovered its pandemic losses,” Bracha Arnold wrote. The borough’s population increased around 4% from January 2018 to October 2022.
“Over the summer of 2020, the tide began to turn and by October 2022, Manhattan had more than recovered its pandemic losses.” Bracha Arnold