New York City may be sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, according to a new study.
The research says the Big Apple is getting bigger by the day, and its collected buildings now weigh 1.68tn pounds, or 762m tonnes.
Geophysicists from the University of Rhode Island have said because many of those buildings are skyscrapers, they are causing the island of Manhattan to subside.
Tom Parsons, a geophysicist at the US Geological Survey, who was the lead author on the study, said: “Skyscrapers apply way more pressure.”
The authors, writing this month in the journal Earth’s Future, added that every new skyscraper was contributing to future flood risk.
