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More buildings going up, less residential area. many more workers from the entire metropolitan area. You can't just count residence within the city limits. You have to count the entire metro area for those who commute to work.
I'll bet your blog didn't tell you about the daytime population increase of the metro area... It requires so much more water for an ever growing workforce.
Do you have any critical thinking skills? I said there were studies as well. The studies point to reduction of the ground water. I don't know if blogs do or not, because I don't seek the advice of blogs like you do. I already knew of subsidence, so I did appropriate searches for papers on the topic. There are several out there if you search.
It looks like you haven't been reading papers which disagree with your point about land subsidence. From Rutgers Univ, a brief explanation about sea level rise along the Jersey coast does note that land subsidence has contributed to sea level rise but that it is only about one fourth to one third of the increase
In the 20th century, sea level rose by 12 inches at bedrock locations
(Bayonne, Trenton, and Camden). Along the Jersey shore from Sandy
Hook to Cape May, it rose an additional four inches due to compaction of
sediments caused by natural effects and groundwater withdrawal. There is
a 95% probability that the 20th century rate of sea-level rise along the
New Jersey shore was faster than it was in any century in the last 4,000
years.