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Inside the day-to-day operations of the Empire State Building.
New York rebuilds the World Trade Center.
Pigeons and New Yorkers -- it's a relationship that dates back centuries, and it's complicated; some hate them while others can't get enough of them.
How America's biggest city builds the country's tallest towers.
How New York City feeds its 8.5 million residents.
Inside the largest and busiest fire department in the United States.
How New York City operates the country's largest commuter rail system.
New York's ports handle 3.75 million containers a year.
A rare, behind-the-scenes look into the sprawling network of infrastructure systems that keep New York City breathing.
New York City runs the largest recycling program in the United States.
New York has long been known as one of the rattiest cities in America with some estimating close to 2 million rodents roam its streets. Both city workers and residents have been waging a never-ending battle against these four-legged friends. Here is how New York City rats out its rodents.
Many things come to mind when thinking about New York, but how the city deals with its garbage is usually not one of them; here is how the city hauls away its trash.
Many don't know it, but New York is a city that runs on steam. 27 billion pounds of it per year, in fact. It's one of the few cities that relies on the old, but reliable, technology to heat some of its most famous buildings.
New York City has some of the most iconic bridges in the world like the Brooklyn Bridge and the George Washington Bridge. These engineering marvels have helped set the tone for how bridges around the world are designed. Here is how New York builds and maintains its aging bridges.
New York has one of the busiest airspaces in the world; here is how New York's airports have evolved to handle 140 million passengers each year.
Getting water from upstate reservoirs to the taps of over 8.5 million people in New York City is no easy feat. From purification, through thousands of miles of underground tunnels, this is how New York City gets its water.