8,336,697 people

Just a quick little entry about the population of New York City.

First of all - I want to preface this with the fact that NYC actually refers to all five boroughs - Manhattan - the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.

So the population of all five boroughs put together is approximately 8,336,690  people!  (that is from a census taken July 2012 - about a year ago.)

The breakdown is as follows:

Manhattan: 1,619,090
The Bronx: 1,408,473
Brooklyn: 2,272,771
Queens: 2,272,771
Staten Island: 470,728

(Staten Island - you're holding us back!!!!!)

Among these 8,300,000 million people, over 800 languages are spoken!  20% of them do no speak English or only speak very minimal English!  It is the most linguistically diverse city in the world.

I was also asked by a lovely Norwegian couple today if everyone in Manhattan is rich or if everyone is poor.  I told them it was a mix, you could have very rich living next to very poor, but here is a more official and researched answer:

Medium income: $188,697
Avergae Weekly Wage: $1453 (Now I'm feeling poor!)
Percentage living in poverty in Manhattan: 17.6%
Percentage living in poverty in NYC: 18.5% (about 13% of the entire US lives in poverty so NYC has more.)
What the richest man in New York (David Koch) is worth: $20 billion. (Think of all the Burberry he could buy!  Also - thank goodness he likes the Natural History Museum and The Met Opera - I know he's controversial but he funds my two passions so I have mixed feelings.)
What the second richest man in New York (Mayor Michael Bloomberg) is worth: $18.1 billion
Minimum wage in NYC: $7.25 and hour