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wtg
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New York City May Be Sinking Under the Weight of Its Skyscrapers

A scientific journal suggests that the city’s 1.68 trillion pounds of buildings are causing the city to descend, in some neighborhoods faster than others


https://www.architecturaldiges...placement=newsletter


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New York City May Be Sinking Under the Weight of Its Skyscrapers


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that's cray-cray!


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If true, this must have been happening for decades. Did someone just decide to take a guess on the weight of all those buildings and go all alarmist?


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The paper is kind of interesting.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary....10.1029/2022EF003465


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Just build higher.


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