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r/nyc

996K 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
996Kmembers
12.1Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
228posts 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.

44% 36% 17%
Link 44% Image 36% Video 17% Text 4%

The topics it labels

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

Photo 6 News 6 Breaking 3 Art 3 COVID-19 2 Video 2 Funny 2 Interesting 2 Snow Day ❄️ 2 Mayor Mamdani 1

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.

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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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.