In the 1970s, New York City was in fiscal hot water. Everyone was leaving—either for the suburbs or to a financially stable city.
That's obviously no longer the case, with New York being one of the most popular living destinations in the country. But while the city's population has now far exceeded what it was in 1970, its median population density hasn't rebounded to the same extent. In fact, the average New Yorker actually lived in a denser neighborhood in 1970 than she lives in now, according to a new report by the NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.
