New research estimates that the city's land mass is sinking at an average rate of 1 to 2 millimeters per year. It will be hundreds of years before New York becomes the American version of Venice, which plunges into the Adriatic.
New Yorkers like Tracy Miles may be skeptical at first. "I think it's a made-up story," Miles said. "We have an excessive amount of skyscrapers, apartment buildings, offices," San Francisco company and commercial spaces isn't the only place sinking.