Now, let’s talk up. New York is tall. Really tall. The Empire State Building is 1,454 feet high. That’s 103 stories of steel and dreams.
But you can’t just look at one building. The city has 6,000 skyscrapers. Yes, six thousand. That’s more than any other city on Earth. Put them end to end? They’d stretch for miles.
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And the new Hudson Yards is a whole city on a platform. It’s built over train tracks. The whole thing is 28 acres. That’s like a small town floating above the trains.
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Now go down. The subway has 472 stations. That’s more than all of London and Paris combined. The tracks stretch for 665 miles of route—enough to reach from NYC to Chicago.
You could ride every line. It would take you 24 hours. And you’d see 35,000 mice. (Yes, the rats love it. They’re huge.) The subway moves 5.5 million people every day.
That’s like moving the entire population of Finland underground. Every. Single. Day. And it’s 24/7. No sleep for this city.
