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0.2% is a huge percentage?
by camjw 5y ago
0.2% is a huge percentage?
- adam_arthur 5y agoWell, how are you computing it? Majority of looting was in retail businesses in lower Manhattan. If you're computing overall number of businesses in New York then you're just being disingenuous. So you're counting retail stores in Staten island too? Are you including non retail businesses? How about watch literally any video of the protests in Manhattan to see for yourself? To say there wasn't widespread looting in Manhattan is just wrong, and easily disproven by the evidence. Here you go: https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Manhattan+2020+looting https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Manhattan... Don't believe your lying eyes, right? Funny all this pushback from people who most likely don't even live there.
- cardamomo 5y ago450 businesses is about 1.4% of NYC's retail businesses. According to the state, "In 2019, New York City’s retail sector comprised 32,600 businesses" [0]. That's enough to be noticable, but I wouldn't describe it as a huge percentage. Per my understanding, most of the thefts occured at high-end retail in Lower Manhattan. Is that what you saw? [0] https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/retail-sector-new-york-city-recent-trends-and-impact-covid-19 https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/retail-sector-new-y...
- adam_arthur 5y agoVast majority was in lower Manhattan. Which represents about 5% or less of NYC landmass. So you can multiply 1.4% by 10-20 to get a more accurate number