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These Interactive Charts Show Top Grossing and Top Attended Broadway Musicals from 1997 to Present Day

2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00

TicketSource recently crunched the numbers and created these two interactive charts showing the Top Grossing and Top Attended Broadway musical from the 1997/98 season through present day. Click the Play button in the bottom left corner or click along the bottom timeline to see the stats for each year.

Analysing data from The Broadway League, TicketSource reveals the changing rankings of Broadway's top-grossing and most attended musicals since season 1997/98. Since season 1997/98, over $17 billion has been spent on Broadway musicals. Discover which musicals have had the staying power over the years, and those which have sky-rocketed to the top in the shortest amount of time.

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This New Website Gives a Detailed Summary of How Your NYC Building Fits Into Your Neighborhood

2018-04-09T14:30:00-04:00

Localize is an incredibly detailed and polished mobile website that lets you enter in any New York City address, and get presented with dozens of bits of insightful data as to how your building fits within its neighborhood and surrounding areas. For example, entering the info for Midtown Manhattan supertall skyscraper 432 Park gives back info on noise, trucking and delivery routes, upcoming transit disruptions, nearby dog parks, city code violations and much, much more. It also lets you subscribe to updates so you can learn more info about your building and neighborhood as soon as it is available. Check it out!

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Statistician Finds Correlation Between Average Neighborhood Incomes and Density of Gum on NYC Sidewalks

2016-10-01T09:17:05-04:00

Statistician Walker Harrison of the excellently named site Perplex.city recently studied the density of sidewalk gum stains across several NYC neighborhoods, then found that it correlates to the average income of that neighborhood.

[…] nice neighborhoods, like those aforementioned clusters of extreme wealth in the Upper East Side, have fewer gum stains on their streets. Poorer neighborhoods, like the ones north of 96th Street, are heavily gummed. […] The two have a correlation coefficient of -0.78, which scores as a strong, negative linear relationship. The trendline overlaid on the graph has a slope of -0.0000465, which means that on average every additional gumspot comes with about a $20,000 drop in per capita income.

Check out the full article for more info.

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Meet the Millennials: What Millennials Want in Our City

2016-06-20T11:59:07-04:00

Apartment search website ABODO recently ran a poll in which 2000 millennials chose their perfect city and its qualities.

The most eye catching result was the overwhelming plurality of millennials who chose New York City as the perfect city. Featuring many desirable qualities such as a thriving job market and quality pizza, it's easy to see why the City topped the chart.

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Infographic Reveals the Numbers Behind NYC's Tallest and Most Expensive Residential Building

2016-03-10T10:50:34-05:00

432 Park is the tallest residential building in the country, and one of the tallest overall in the City at 1,396 feet. After completion last year, how is the building doing in terms of occupancy and sales?

This infographic from real estate website City Realty takes a look at the closing numbers and makes it pretty for us.

City Realty takes a look at the sky-high numbers associated with 432 Park Avenue now that the first apartment sales have been recorded in the blockbuster new Billionaire's Row condominium.

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We Racked Up Nearly 1 Million Miles on Citi Bikes This February

2016-03-08T09:13:28-05:00

Citi Bike still remains one of the more popular ways to get around the City, even in the dead of winter.

Despite super cold temperatures in February, we collectively accumulated nearly 1 million miles with over a half million rides. Well done New Yorkers!

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New York City Health Department Releases Most Popular Baby Names

2015-12-31T10:24:24-05:00

If your newborn is named Sophia or Ethan, their name is not as unique as you thought. The NYC Department of Health released data on the most popular names of 2014 (a year behind, but that's always the case), revealing those two names at the top girls and boys spot. In addition, the Health Department also broke down the list by ethnicity, if the Mother specified it at time of birth.

Check out the full report for more on the most popular names in the City.

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