Inside the day-to-day operations of the Empire State Building.
New York rebuilds the World Trade Center.
Pigeons and New Yorkers: it's a relationship that dates back centuries, and like most New York City relationships it's complicated; some hate them, while others can't get enough of them.
How America's biggest city builds the country's tallest towers.
How New York City operates the country's largest commuter rail system.
New York's ports handle 3.75 million containers a year.
A rare, behind-the-scenes look into the sprawling network of infrastructure systems that keep New York City breathing.
New York City runs the largest recycling program in the United States.
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 four-legged friends. Here is how New York City rats out its rodents.
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 and city scandal has left cab drivers in thousands of dollars of debt.
Many things come to mind when thinking about New York, but how the city deals with its garbage is usually not one of them; here is how the city hauls away its trash.
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 7,500 miles of pipes.
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.
New York has some famous bridges; these engineering examples have helped set the tone for how bridges around the world are designed.
New York's three closest airports move 140 million people in and out of the most visited place in the United States; but these three travel hubs were not designed to handle this growing number of visitors; here's how New York's airports are evolving.
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.
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.