It seems like we are always having new and old problems with our facilities, people, and supply line. A new article in The Byte says that experts have proven that New York City is sinking into the ocean. Some parts of New York City seem to be sinking at a rate of 0.06 inches per year, while other parts seem to be rising for no reason. This has made some people wonder if the city is turning over like a boat that has capsized.

Under the waves of the Atlantic Ocean, New York City is slowly going away.

Some New Yorkers aren’t surprised by this; they just recently said that recent rains have caused flooding that has never been seen before. This may be because the City is so close to the water. There were people who thought that New York City might fall into the water because of the sheer weight of the trillions of pounds of steel that make up the city’s famous skyline. Scientists were quick to say, though, that the fact that buildings put weight on the five boroughs didn’t matter in this case.

Large parts of New York City are built on the land of an old ice shelf, which is why the city sinks every year.

Research shows that New York City is actually sinking into the water because of natural geological processes that happen all the time. Over time, large amounts of land are often eaten up and returned by the ocean. These changes in the land are obviously not good for a city with millions of people living in it and is an important part of culture, so scientists have been working hard to find ways to stop them.

Tens of thousands of years ago, glacial ice sheets melted, which is thought to be what caused New York City to sink so quickly. Still today, it looks like the heights are being affected, making a big part of New York sag and settle like a used memory foam mattress. Geographical data from NASA-led studies show that most of New England and many parts of New York are now buried on the Earth’s rock, where they used to be on top of a more than mile-high ice shelf, similar to the wall in Game of Thrones.

Of course, this melting has a bigger effect in some places than in others. For New York City, this means falling into the salty waters that circle the island of Manhattan. On the other hand, the westernmost parts of Connecticut will barely notice the small change in elevation. The NASA study even talked about how they think the continued loss of elevation will affect different parts of the five boroughs, with some surprising outcomes.

Different parts of New York City are falling faster than others, and some are rising for no reason.

Some isolated places are sinking at a rate even faster than 0.06 inches per year. For example, some parts of New York City are sinking more than 0.18 inches in the same amount of time. Some places that seem to be hotspots are Queens, which is mostly built on top of huge dumps.

This sinking could have huge effects on places in Queens like LaGuardia Airport, Arthur Ashe Stadium, and the house where the Heffernan family from the hit CBS comedy The King of Queens lives.

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Rising Waters, Sinking City: Scientific Confirmation of New York’s Subsidence