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r/newyorkcity

318.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.2K upvotes, which works out to 20 per 1,000 members.

20peak upvotes per 1,000 members
318.4Kmembers
6.2Kbest post
774most comments
101posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

57% 24% 9% 8%
Image 57% Video 24% Gallery 9% Link 8% Text 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Video 9 Politics 7 News 4 Photo 4 Art 3 Historical Photo 2 AI Art 1 Sports 1 Opinion 1 Crime 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Pregnant NYC nurse accused of taking a CitiBike from a black man outside hospital is NAMED as friends start Go Fund Me to pay her legal bills - and l…

↑ 6.2K πŸ’¬ 774 link 2023

Zohran Wins

↑ 6.2K πŸ’¬ 437 image 2025

Hot girls for Cuomo…

↑ 5.2K πŸ’¬ 229 video 2025

50501 protest on 5th Ave

↑ 4.9K πŸ’¬ 186 image 2025

Zero arrests

↑ 4.6K πŸ’¬ 81 image 2025

If only the city had a mass transit system to make this man’s life easier

↑ 4.4K πŸ’¬ 566 image 2025

Guilty on All Counts

↑ 4.2K πŸ’¬ 432 image 2024

love to see a real New Yorker testifying in front of the senate today

↑ 3.9K πŸ’¬ 241 image 2022

Sunset on the N train

↑ 3.5K πŸ’¬ 77 video 2023

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO!

↑ 3.4K πŸ’¬ 513 text 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/newyorkcity, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.