NYC Revealed
From garbage trucks to power plants, giving viewers a rare behind-the-scenes look into the sprawling network of infrastructure systems that keep New York City breathing.
Empire State Building
S2 E1
Inside the day-to-day operations of the Empire State Building.
World Trade Center
S2 E2
New York rebuilds the World Trade Center.
Pigeons
S2 E3
How the pigeon took over New York City.
Skyscrapers
S2 E4
How America's biggest city builds the country's tallest towers.
Food
S2 E5
How New York City feeds its 8.5 million residents.
FDNY
S2 E6
Inside the largest and busiest fire department in the United States.
Trains and Grand Central Terminal
S2 E7
How New York City operates the country's largest commuter rail system.
Ports
S2 E8
New York's ports handle 3.75 million containers a year.
Roads
S2 E9
A rare, behind-the-scenes look into the sprawling network of infrastructure systems that keep New York City breathing.
Taxis
S1 E2
The yellow taxi cab is the quintessential New York City ride. What started as a small fleet of cars nearly 100 years ago, has turned into a bustling system of thousands of yellow taxi cabs. But now the threat of ride-share apps and city scandal has left cab drivers in thousands of dollars of debt.
Sewage
S1 E4
Underneath the ground of New York's fabled streets exists a vast network of pipes that make up the city's sewer system. New Yorkers create, on average, 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater per day that makes its way through these 7,500 miles of pipes.
Steam
S1 E5
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.
Bridges
S1 E6
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.
Parks
S1 E7
New York City might be known as the concrete jungle, but its parks have been an ever-present part of this bustling metropolis from the beginning. The city's 30,000 acres of parks serve as an escape for New Yorkers and serve the city itself in many unseen ways.
Electricity
S1 E9
Keeping the lights on in New York City is no easy task and as New York moves towards a greener future how we generate electricity will have to evolve.
Water
S1 E10
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.