Season 1

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  8.2/106 votes

  Rats

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/2022

  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...

  Director: Unknown

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  8.3/106 votes

  Taxis

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/5/2022

  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...

  Director: Unknown

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  8.6/105 votes

  Trash

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/5/2022

  Many things come to mind when thinking about New York City, but how the city deals with its garbage is usually not one of them. New Yorkers produce over 14 million tons of trash each year - and a combination of city agencies...

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.2/105 votes

  Sewage

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/5/2022

  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...

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.4/105 votes

  Steam

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/5/2022

  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.

  Director: Unknown

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  8.6/105 votes

  Bridges

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/5/2022

  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...

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  Parks

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/5/2022

  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 ...

  Director: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  Airports

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/5/2022

  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.

  Director: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  Electricity

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/2022

  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.

  Director: Unknown

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  N/A/100 votes

  Water

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2022

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown