The New York State Dept. of Labor just released it's monthly county-by-county unemployment stats for August. New York City as a whole has an unmeployment rate of just 5.2%. Manhattan is 4.4% and Queens is 4.6%. This is absolutely incredible in a city that overflows with immigrants who are already working thousands upon thousands of jobs illegally. There are possibly more people actually working in NYC than there are people accounted for as part of the workforce. New York State as a whole is at 4.6%, less than the national average of 4.9%.