[civilian]

As long as we're being pedants, it's actually more like 2.6% (8.406 / 318.9) of Americans who live in NYC.

The author does have a grip on reality, I think it's just they aren't talking about what you want them to talk about.

[S_Daedalus]

I don't think that opening with an insult is in the spirit of what this site is about, do you?