Might not be literally, if you're only counting Manhattan (and depending on the time frame). I would venture to guess it might be in the hundreds of thousands per day in Manhattan. Only 332,000 commuters (I assume this is per day) commute to Manhattan by car: http://wagner.nyu.edu/files/rudincenter/ManhattanCommuting.p..., and I would venture to guess an even smaller number commute within Manhattan by car.
But counting all five boroughs, I am sure it is literally millions per day. Car ownership/use/commuting rates are much higher outside of Manhattan.
That's an interesting statistic. Where did you find it?
I ask because the available statistics I've seen on NYC car ownership and daily usage would make me wonder if there are even 1 million cars operated on NYC streets per day.
I didn't say that there were millions of cars each day. I said that there were millions of people who drive in NYC. 43.5% of households in NYC own a car[1]. That's approximately 1.3 million households[2]. When you take into account people driving in from the surrounding areas and households with multiple drivers, there are almost certainly at least 2 million people who sometimes drive in NYC.
less than 30% use cars daily, but even then that's something over 2 million cars from city residents alone. I would't drive if I lived in Manhattan or along the subway in another borough, but there's some places it makes sense.
