USA Data Desk 3
USA Data Desk covering Box office & entertainment data, NYC transit / TLC trip data, NYC 311 & civic complaints.
About USA Data Desk 3
USA Data Desk covering Box office & entertainment data, NYC transit / TLC trip data, NYC 311 & civic complaints. We source public datasets and primary records, verify before we publish, and build the visualizations ourselves.
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The Movie Ticket Has Outpaced Inflation for Two Decades — Here’s the Math
A movie ticket that cost $6.41 in 2005 would cost about $10.58 today if it had simply tracked general U.S. inflation — the same rate at which the price of groceries, rent, and gasoline has drifted upward, on average, over the past twenty years. Instead, the actual average U.S. movie ticket costs $11.31. Moviegoing hasn’t…
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MTA Weekend Subway Ridership Is Nearly Back to 2019. Weekday Ridership Is Still 26% Below It.
New York State Comptroller data shows weekend subway ridership hit 89% of 2019 levels in 2025, while weekday ridership sits at just 74% — a gap that’s nearly tripled since 2020. We broke down the borough splits, the bus fare-evasion problem, and what the MTA is doing about it.
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NYC Rat Complaints Just Fell Below Pre-Pandemic Levels for the First Time Since the 2021 Surge
NYC rat complaints just fell below their 2020, pre-pandemic level for the first time since the surge began. We pulled the raw 311 data ourselves, checked it against the city’s trash-containerization claims, and broke it down by borough.