Sometimes gang members talk to each other using just symbols. This is known as 'stacking'. And in other cases a word may have more than one slang translation, such as gun. A generic gun becomes a 'biscuit', or a 'gat'. If you're talking about a 9-mm handgun it's a 'nine', or a 'pump' for a shotguns.
The U.S. Census Bureau has estimated New York Cityâs population at 8,537,673, as of July 2016. This represented an increase of 362,500 residents (or 4.4 percent) over the April 2010 decennial census count of 8,175,133. The city has not witnessed such a robust pace of growth in over a half-century.
About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City. New York has the highest population density of any major city in the United States, with over 27,000 people per square mile. Over 3 million of New York Cityâs residents are foreign-born; over one-quarter arrived in 2000 or later. Nearly 2 million New Yorkers are under the age of 18.