Andrew Beveridge

Beveridge Fizzy On Future

by Tom Acitelli
Jul. 1st, 2008, 5:30 pm
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Yale Ph.D. Andrew Beveridge, 63, chairs the sociology department at Queens College, runs the site socialexplorer.com and provides demographic analysis to The New York Times. He says it looks—now—like New York’s getting older, whiter and more economically stratified.
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Yale Ph.D. Andrew Beveridge, 63, chairs the sociology department at Queens College, runs the site socialexplorer.com and provides demographic analysis to The New York Times. He says it looks—now—like New York’s getting older, whiter and more economically stratified.

Location: The theme that unites the Mayor’s 2030 PlaNYC is that the city will grow by about one million people in the next 25 years. Do you agree?

Mr. Beveridge: It’s an interesting thing because the way they framed it was that it’s inevitable that the city’s going to grow that much. … If you take a look at it, that isn’t that much growth, percentage-wise, since they have it over 30 years.

 

So what happens in 20 years? How big is the city?

It will be bigger. Unless something bad happens! Then it will be smaller.  read more »