City officials were a bit confused this year when the Census came back and showed the city had grown by just 166,855, so of course Mayor Bloomberg demanded a recount. Some of the most suspicious data showed that neighborhoods like the West Village and Upper East Side lost housing units; City Councilwoman Gail Brewer told the Daily News, "That's crazy. It doesn't make any sense to me, like the rest of the census." However, it might just be the doorman's fault. You're off the hook, hipsters!
Some doormen admitted to the News that they didn't allow Census workers in their high-rises to count people or units for "security reasons." Some Census workers also assumed units were "vacant" in buildings that looked under construction, and city demographer Joseph Salvo says they found 120,000 addresses missing from the Census "master list." Senator Chuck Schumer said, "The numbers are dead wrong and it makes you wonder if the Census Bureau is living on a different planet."
The city could lose out on federal funding if the number of vacant units are too high or the population count too low. And without funding, how is the city going to build all those new bike lanes? Wait a minute, no funding and now fewer bikers? This reeks of conspiracy. We're onto you, New York Post.
