Survey Hints at a Census Undercount in New York City

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/nyregion/survey-suggests-census-undercounted-new-york-city.html?_r=1

“We demand a recount,” declared Assemblyman Rory I. Lancman, a Democrat from Queens.

The Brooklyn borough president, Marty Markowitz, pronounced himself “flabbergasted.”

“The numbers are dead wrong,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, “and it makes you wonder if the Census Bureau is living on a different planet.”

After learning that the population of Queens had increased by a mere 1,300 people in 10 years, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proclaimed: “As they say in Brooklyn: Fuhgeddaboudit!”