New York City is sinking due to skyscraper weight, rising sea levels
Al Mayadeen English
3 min readAccording to the researchers, the city’s structures, including the famous Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, weigh a total of 1.68 trillion lbs - roughly equivalent to the weight of 140 million elephants.
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