What is NYC’s day/night population?

I may sound like I have a fixation with NYC…I do ;-) but there are plenty of reasons why. One of them is sheer population density of this place. Think of it this way…the city’s night time population is estimated (according to the last US Census estimate) @ 8.4 million +/-. The day time population is estimated to be much higher than that! According to the source:

Just to get warmed up, chew on this -- from 8:00AM to 8:59 AM on an average Fall day in 2007 the NYC Subway carried 388,802 passengers into the CBD on 370 trains over 22 tracks. In other words, a train carrying 1,050 people crossed into the CBD every 6 seconds. Breathtaking if you ask me.

Over this same period, the average number of passengers in a vehicle crossing any of the East River crossings was 1.20. This means that, lacking the subway, we would need to move 324,000 additional vehicles into the CBD (never mind where they would all park).

Truly fascinating!!!

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