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It's almost enough to make you finally pack up and move to Brooklyn:

After a decade of steady decline, the number of children under 5 in Manhattan increased more than 26 percent from 2000 to 2004, census estimates show, surpassing the 8 percent increase in small children citywide during the same period and vastly outstripping the slight overall growth in population in the borough and city.

Until you remember it's so much worse in Park Slope.

Fuck, we're going to have to retire to Florida. At 30.

Manhattan's Little Ones Coming in Bigger Numbers [NYT]