This Neighborhood has more young kids than ever

This whole area of lower Murray Hill/Kips Bay had a noticeable number of small children when I first moved in here ten years ago, and seems to have more than ever now.

Was just walking around the other day and realized how many windows on houses have child window guards on them...required by City law. Usually, you really see a lot of these mostly in housing projects where poorer people live ( fact: poorer people in NYC have always had more kids than better off people, also, number of singles and childless couples in Manhattan in particular is a much bigger percentage of the population than most places in America).

And, of course, you see the endless parade of nannies and young mothers with baby buggies and strollers out on nicer days --they seem to favor certain hours but I have never kept a log of this so I am not sure what those times are...

I guess the same pattern has been holding true for years: people move in here and have a couple of kids and then move on to some place else, and are replaced by new young(er) couples who start to have children.  As elsewhere in America, a lot of the mothers are over 30 I would say, because they wait to finish school and establish themselves somewhat in careers before they have kids. The double incomes are a necessity for many people, especially because it costs so much to live in Manhattan.