30,000 Rock: A Peek into New York City’s Geological Underpinnings – February 3, 2012

In a City Where Everyone’s Rushing, Few Ponder the Relentless, Plodding Progression of the Ground Beneath Their Feet

When I moved to Manhattan in August 2010, I already knew the city as a maze of crumbling, gum-stained sidewalks connected to what I considered the real word by ribbons of concrete and steel. Crossing one of the largest of those ribbons — the George Washington Bridge — one day, I found myself immediately lost. Highway entrance and exit ramps curled to and fro in an indeterminate tangle. Before too long, though, I'd regained my composure, and the rather serpentine course I'd taken through Harlem's grid of one-way streets led me more or less in the direction I wanted to go.

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by: Benjamin Preston

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