While some states and cities are losing population, New York City and others around the country are gaining. Immigrants are the main reason. - - Donna Poisl
By ANDY SOLTIS
New York state is still growing, thanks to a surge of immigrants to the five boroughs, new census estimates show.
The state's population rose by 564,642 to 19.5 million between 2000, when the last census was taken, and last July when the latest data was compiled.
More than two-thirds of that increase -- about 384,000 -- occurred in the city, while rural and rust-belt counties upstate lost more than 8 percent of their population.
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