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Odds for Love in New York Favor Young, Single Ladies

By Amy Zimmer | January 22, 2012 1:34pm
A map released by the city's Economic Development Corporation on Jan. 20, 2012 shows the ration of young, single women to men in each neighborhood.
A map released by the city's Economic Development Corporation on Jan. 20, 2012 shows the ration of young, single women to men in each neighborhood.
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MANHATTAN — All the young, single ladies of New York, despair not — there are enough men to go around.

New city data shows that there are actually more never-married single men than women between the ages 20 and 34 — cutting against the widely-held notion that it is harder for ladies to find a love connection in the Big Apple.

The StatsBee column from the city's Economic Development Corporation crunched census data and found there are 742,400 men in that age group compared to 729,500 women.

The oft-cited statistic about the city's population — 53 percent female and 47 percent male — "often supports and argument that the gender imbalance makes it more difficult for some women to find a partner," the column says.

Young single women are actually outnumbered by young single men in New York.
Young single women are actually outnumbered by young single men in New York.
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But in reality, different neighborhoods have very different ratios when it comes to young, single New Yorkers.

Young single women outnumber men by a ratio of nearly two to one on the Upper East Side, for instance, but across the East River, in Jackson Heights, Queens, there's a surplus of young men — 1.7 males for every female, the study found.

Young single women also outnumber their male counterparts in East Midtown (which includes Murray Hill) and Downtown (including the Financial District) and in Brooklyn's Brownsville and East New York.

Washington Heights is the Manhattan neighborhood where young single men most outnumber single women. Other neighborhoods where more single men live include Flushing, Bayside and Kew Gardens in Queens; Sunset Park, Boro Park, Bay Ridge, Sheepshead Bay and Coney Island in Brooklyn; and Staten Island's South Shore.

Check out your neighborhood's ratio here.