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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated May 30, 2023
New York City has long been known as the city that never sleeps, but it’s new moniker might be the city that is slowly sinking.
New research has found that the extraordinary weight of skyscrapers combined with rising sea levels is contributing to a 1-2 millimeter on average of sinking per year. Worse, some areas are even plunging down at
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