In an email blast this week, State Senator Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat, pegged the growing need to plan for senior services to support the aging Baby Boomer cohort as an issue that neither the city, state nor federal government has confronted.
As of 2013, New York City's elderly population was 998,000, with the numbers projected to swell by 35%, reaching 1.3 million by 2030, Krueger said