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.
With a census-estimated 2014 population of 8,491,079 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km 2), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.