{"id":75881,"date":"2020-11-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75881"},"modified":"2020-11-16T07:05:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T13:05:44","slug":"where-have-you-gone-david-dinkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75881","title":{"rendered":"Where Have You Gone, David Dinkins?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New Yorkers are leaving NYC in record numbers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve added emphasis in a few places:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>City residents filed 295,103 change of address requests from March 1 through Oct. 31, according to data The Post obtained from the US Postal Service under a Freedom of Information Act request.<\/p><p>Since the data details only when 11 or more forwarding requests were made to a particular county outside NYC, <strong>the number of moves is actually higher<\/strong>. And a single address change could represent an entire household, which means far more than 300,000 New Yorkers fled the five boroughs.<\/p><p>Whatever the exact number, the exodus \u2014 which began when COVID-19 hit the city in early spring \u2014 is much greater than in prior years. <strong>From just March through July, there were 244,895 change of address requests to destinations outside of the city, more than double the 101,342 during the same period in 2019<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As long as they don&#8217;t bring their infantile New York politics with &#8217;em&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers are leaving NYC in record numbers. I&#8217;ve added emphasis in a few places: City residents filed 295,103 change of address requests from March 1 through Oct. 31, according to data The Post obtained from the US Postal Service under a Freedom of Information Act request. Since the data details only when 11 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,416,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-fragility","category-covid19","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75882,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75881\/revisions\/75882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}