Nearly 420,000 of NYC's richest residents have fled the city amid the pandemic with smartphone data showing Upper East Side and West Village populations down by 40 percent
Five percent of New York City's population, or 420,000 people, left between March 1 and May 1 amid the coronavirus pandemic
Some neighborhoods such as the Upper East Side and the West Village emptied by at least 40%
The majority fled to vacation homes in places such as Long Island, upstate New York, Pennsylvania and Florida
Residents who fled typically were white, had college degrees or higher and earned incomes of more than $100,000
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Published: 10:04 EDT, 15 May 2020 | Updated: 12:18 EDT, 15 May 2020
Five percent of New York City's population has fled since the coronavirus pandemic gripped the city, new smartphone data reveals.
From March 1 to May 1, about 420,000 residents of the Big Apple left, particularly from the wealthiest neighborhoods, reported The New York Times.
While there was relatively little change in some zip codes, others such as SoHo, the West Village, Morningside Heights, the Upper East Side, the Financial District, Midtown, Gramercy and Brooklyn Heights emptied by at least 40 percent.
Meanwhile, Manhattan's overall population fell by almost 20 percent.
Income was perhaps the strongest indicator of how many residents in a particular neighborhood had fled.
NYC has been the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak with more than 186,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 15,300 confirmed deaths with at least 5,000 more probable deaths.
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