So NYC is sinking. No need to abandon the city (just yet), but there are parts that are slowly subsiding to their weight in time. With rising sea levels from global warming that can’t be a good thing to be happening to such a highly populated island that is the center of the financial world.
Before you get too concerned (or as is the case with most Americans and the topic of global warming – not concerned enough), you should know “that on average the metropolitan area subsided by about 0.06 inches (1.6 millimeters) per year – about the same amount that a toenail grows in a month.” (gross) So not too big of a deal, but when you extrapolate that out a hundred years I wouldn’t be buying oceanfront property in NYC anytime soon.
NASA-Led Study Pinpoints Areas of New York City Sinking, Rising