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where the boys at

I’ve written about NYC’s gender ratios before… here’s a little tidbit from Sunday’s Times:

Men now outnumber women [in Lower Manhattan] by a ratio usually found in towns with all-male colleges, military bases and prisons, and in a few enclaves in Silicon Valley, with high concentrations of engineers and workers in other male-dominated fields.

Since 2000, men, mostly between ages 25 and 44, have accounted for more than three-fourths of the population increase in Lower Manhattan. As a result, according to a special census calculation, the sex ratio there increased to 126 men per 100 women in 2005, from 101 men per 100 women in 2000. In the rest of Manhattan, and in the city over all, there were only 90 men for every 100 women.

“For a normal, noninstitutional setting,” said A. Peter Lobo, deputy director of the City Planning Department’s population division, “I would say it is among the highest sex ratios that you would see.”

The article speculates downtown is male-dominated because men working in the financial industry like short commutes and because guys may be more willing to live in a neighborhood that empties out at night. (C works downtown and says when she works late it’s like a ghost town). “I think that men may be a bit more prepared to move into a weird, slowly developing neighborhood than women are,” Marcus Friedman, 25, told the paper.

“I don’t mean to generalize — but most of the girls I am cool with have a bit more vested in their neighborhood than commute and apartment size. They would rather sacrifice one or the other to have the restaurants and bar scene that they want close by”

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