The City: Changing the Skyline

High above the traffic's boom and deep below the granite surface, New York relentlessly carries on the task of renewing itself. To keep up with the pace, Manhattan alone will spend $1 billion this year, and no city on earth can build faster, taller, bigger or better. Whole avenues are changing as outmoded structures come tumbling down and stores cheerfully bid their customers goodbye with placards: "We'll be back next year, right here in the new building." Never were the signs of change more evident than this summer.

Trains still run underground...

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