According to the Department of City Planning, the population center lies in Maspeth, Queens, near the intersection of Galasso Place and 48th Street, near Maspeth Creek. The geographic center is in Bushwick, Brooklyn, on Stockholm Street between Wyckoff Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue.
The Tin Man
I am surprised they’re so close together. I would have figured that Manhattan’s high density would have skewed the population center westward.
It looks like the population center is slightly closer to Manhattan and the Bronx than the geographic center… though not by much.
Yeah, just barely..
See, it’s true? Manhattan’s NOT the center of the world. Queens rules!