Can New York Grow Again?

New York City is hemorrhaging population at a pace not seen since the 1970s—and the exodus shows no signs of abating. The departures are not, as conventional wisdom holds, struggling families priced out by unaffordable housing: they are young, well-educ

New York City is having a moment.

COVID migrants are returning, plutocrats who decamped to Miami are slinking back, and the city's firms are hiring. A Muslim socialist mayor is about to take office but—despite the panic among Upper East Side moms—there are no signs of imminent Sharia law, nor is there any evidence of a tax-avoidance flight from the five …