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New York: America's Busiest City

New York: America's Busiest City

A three-night stripped event, revealing the astonishing daily systems that allow America's biggest and busiest city to function. Anita Rani, Ade Adepitan, Ant Anstead, and Dan Snow are in New York.

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StatusEnded
Original NameNew York: America's Busiest City
First Air DateAugust 30, 2016
Last Air DateSeptember 13, 2016
Seasons1
Episodes3
Episode Runtime1h 0min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production Countries
Production Companies
NetworksBBC Two
Episode 3
S01E03

Episode 3

Anita Rani, Ade Adepitan, Ant Anstead and Dan Snow are in New York's Central Park. From their base, they reveal the hidden systems and organisational miracles that keep the world's busiest urban park clean and green. Ade heads to Harlem and meets residents who are benefiting and suffering at the hands of gentrification. Meanwhile, Ant is at Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan where an entirely new district is being built on top of a functioning rail depot - an innovative building solution to the island's lack of land. Historian Dan Snow is in Coney Island discovering that television, air conditioning and extreme weather almost killed off this historic amusement zone. And viewers are taken inside a multi million dollar penthouse apartment - accompanied by an estate agent who holds the record for selling New York's most expensive house.

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