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Originally Posted by xzmattzx
New York City expanded long ago. Battery Park City was all underwater long ago, and Castle Clinton in Battery Park used to stick out into the ocean.
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Difference is a place like Hong Kong will build 10x what we can, and in 10x less time. A project like this here, within the confines of the tri-state, would take 50+ years the way things move here with our bureaucracy, lawsuits, NIMBYS, environmental studies, regulations that gives me irregularity in the bowels.
But its great for Hong Kong, but at the same, makes me sad because we don't build massive infrastructure projects efficiently. Bloody road projects take 5+ years, meanwhile some folks build whole cities in that time. Hudson Yards maybe, but even that is slow relative to others.
Hong Kong is a great city on a side note.