NYC with London-type boroughs and London with NYC-type boroughs

[King of Kensington]

You don't have to get exactly 33 subdivisions for NYC, but what would it be like with boroughs more in line with the size of London boroughs?  Or London with very NYC-sized boroughs?

[King of Kensington]

Impressive! 

[King of Kensington]

I'm just going to go with the lame names of Central, NW, NE, SW and SE.  Population (rounded), land area (sq. miles) and population density.

Central  3,019,000  116.2  25,981
Northwest  2,404,000  200.5  11,990
Northeast  1,308,000  108.0  12,111
Southwest  1,130,000  101.1  11,143
Southeast  555,000  81.4  6,818

Will try to calculate for ethnic groups, but may take a while as I'm not familiar with the ONS website.

[King of Kensington]

Here's average taxpayer income:

Central  £50,830
Southwest  £39,905
Southeast  £33,125
Northwest  £32,451
Northeast  £26,599

London  £39,100

http://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/average-income-tax-payers-borough/resource/392e86d4-f1d3-4f06-a6a5-7fcd0fd65948

[King of Kensington]

Ethnicity

London (Central):  60% White, 11.1% Asian, 16.4% Black
Middlesex (NW):  53.3% White, 23.9% Asian, 12% Black
Essex (NE):  52.1% White, 26.3% Asian, 14.1% Black
Surrey (SW):  69.3% White, 13.1% Asian, 10% Black
Kent (SE):  83.3% White, 4.8% Asian, 7.1% Black

Highest qualification (level 4 and above):

London (Central):  45.5%
Surrey (SW):  38.3%
Middlesex (NW):  35%
Kent (SE):  28.3%
Essex (NE):  24%

[King of Kensington]

I actually excluded Chinese from the Asian count.  I added up Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and "other Asian." I assume "other Asian" is mostly South Asians (those born in the UK who say "Asian British", Sri Lankans, some people of South Asian origin born in Africa etc.)

I'll try to get social housing figures. 

It's interesting that in London it's still commonly asserted that poverty is mostly an "inner city" problem and outer London is leafy, suburban and prosperous.   

http://npi.org.uk/blog/income-and-poverty/londons-poverty-shifting-suburbs/

[King of Kensington]

Are you classifying Newham and Haringey as inner or outer London?   They weren't part of the County of London in 1965 but they're often referred to as "inner London."

[King of Kensington]

The multicultural, interwar NW suburbs of London strike me as similar to Queens. 

[King of Kensington]

Maybe use the former "counties" as boroughs for five, or maybe have outer north (from Middlesex and Essex), inner north (former London County north of the Thames), inner south (former London County south of the Thames), and outer south (Surrey and Essex).