Just for grins, I looked to see how the ten largest cities around the time I was born have changed in terms of rank. The top ten in 1960 and their current rank: New York (still # 1) Chicago (now 3) Los Angeles (now 2) Philadelphia (now 5) Detroit (now 18) Baltimore (now 21) Houston [...]
When the 2010 census count for New York City came out today, it struck me as a little light. So I decided to compare the 2009 population estimates for the ten largest cities in the country againt that 2010 counts. In all cases expect San Diego, the census count was lower than the 2009 estimate. [...]