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nyc reddit. r/nyc, the subreddit about New York City Founded 2008 · 1M members · links only

1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 12.1K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1Mmembers
12.1Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
883posts 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.

68% 19% 11%
Link 68% Image 19% Video 11% Text 1%

The topics it labels

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

News 198 NYC History 20 Art 17 Photo 15 Video 10 Mayor Mamdani 9 Interesting 9 Breaking 8 Funny 6 PSA 6

What the ceiling looks like

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

New York's vanishing shops and storefronts: 'It's not Amazon, it's rent' | Business

↑ 12.1K 💬 1.3K link 2017

Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Fraud in 2012, But Manhattan DA Cy Vance Intervened After Visit from Trump Lawyer and To…

↑ 11.2K 💬 396 link 2017

9/11 Tribute in Light shimmering in the rain tonight. Worth getting soaked to see this IRL.

↑ 11.1K 💬 382 video 2020

Anti Trump protest

↑ 9.7K 💬 858 video 2025

My COVID-19 Story. Brooklyn.

↑ 9.2K 💬 1.7K text 2020

I Am a New York City Public High School Student. The Situation is Beyond Control.

↑ 8.6K 💬 1.4K text 2022

The Onion's 9/11 Front Page

↑ 7.7K 💬 527 image 2016

As Redditors Predicted: New York Post Takes Credit for My Parking Ticket Findings

↑ 7.5K 💬 330 text 2016

This is why i love NYC

↑ 7.5K 💬 238 image 2020

LaGuardia landing from yesterday 😍

↑ 7.2K 💬 158 video 2024

Communities its size

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

r/nyc, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/nyc?
r/nyc ("nyc reddit") describes itself this way: r/nyc, the subreddit about New York City. It was founded in 2008 and has 1M members.
How many members does r/nyc have?
r/nyc has about 1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 883 of its posts; the biggest reached 12.1K upvotes, which is 12 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nyc?
"New York's vanishing shops and storefronts: 'It's not Amazon, it's rent' | Business" reached 12.1K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nyc.
What subreddits are similar to r/nyc?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/nyc?
Of the posts we hold, 68% are link posts and 19% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nyc?
Across 883 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 13:00 UTC (5.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 03:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 02:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/nyc?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nyc has 5.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/nyc, 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.