New York’s Insane $119BN Mega Sea Wall

Anything to avoid fixing Pot Holes...

The Netherlands has entered the chat

Imagine if New York, especially lower Manhattan, decided to just raise their streets and sidewalks by 22 feet like Seattle did in 1889 XD
That would provide enough sea level protection for lower Manhattan, transforming the lower streets into an underground path for pedestrians + flood protection.

If you want to build the mega barrier in less than 25 years, say around 7 years or less, and at half the price, give the project to Chinese companies. Oops, forgot—national security.

Godzilla !!!!!

New York is really becoming New Amsterdam indeed, its original name

That's my backyard! My front yard actully...

Mannahata could finance the whole project..

We have a historical track record of setting up ambitious plans that will take a long time and cost a lot, going way over on cost and experiencing significant delays, and then giving up, leaving billions of dollars wasted and the public no better off. There are things that can be done immediately, far more cheaply, and far quicker that can have a measurable benefit. This would also be helpful at a time when New York has a massive budget deficit and significant debt.

Just empty the first 3 floors of all buildings,fill them with concrete. That's all.

China would build the wall in probably 5 years

Step 1: Let the Government take 120 billion dollars of taxpayer's money for a 25 year eco-fantasy.
Step 2: Watch the Government spend 1 trillion dollars on a 50 year project that under-deliverers.

With Trump and Hegseth in charge what could possibly go wrong?
I hear Trump knows a pool guy...

the solution is to leave New York to the elements, place is absolutely not worth saving , it could be a theme park for urban explorers . a lot of the worlds problems come from NY and it would be better to let nature take its course

The Dutch did it already.

I find it incredible how, all over the world, people simply built anything anywhere, regardless of the planet's ever changing landscape over time, without the slightest regard for long-term viability.

Abandon the city and move to higher ground inland. That's the only really workable solution

ah yes... everything can be solved with walls.

How about stop building in stupid places. I'm from CT. Sometimes I wonder what goes through some minds. Most times it's the rich that build on the water. Not my problem. I built on top of the hill. And every time some rich person house goes into the sea, they want my taxes to fix it.

Why would new York be preparing for something that was done in a movie?

Extrapolations on Apple TV 🤔

New York’s Dutch heritage being leveraged

4:53 wouldn't the design be better being convex rather than concave. When the wave hits the design spreads the pressure and force through the wall better and means less risk of it collapsing?

It won't be enough to keep up with the glacial ice melt and the sea level rise. They will just have to keep building it higher and higher...

1:07 So $500 billion by the time it's nearly finished and is already crumbling seeing as it'll be "American made" 😂

Six feet of sea-level rise by 2100 ??
Don't make me laugh. That's hilarious. I'm splitting my sides. Oh, it hurts so much I've spilt my tea all down my front.

Sea-level rise is exponential good fellows. By 2100 the rise will be more along the lines of 15 feet (that's close on to 5 metres for the met. heads).

Under-estimating an approaching calamity is like to cost 50X the bill of the inadequate band-aid solution.
... ... ... (though complainee's of visual pollution and incongruence will gain enhanced waterfront views, to be sure)

119 billionis a pistake. Just as much as 50b is. Just people giving themself a big bonus, wouldnt cost more than 10b to do the wall 😂😂

Let's have the fossil fuel companies pay for it

119billion is ridiculous 😄

Things that are so hard to understand. USA has so many inland, but somehow they think their cities are trapped and they be like Netherlands issues.

Instead of growing the city to inland higher lands, they want to grow the city to more insea expansion...

Just unlogical.

Blocking water flow by building the sea wall to protect NYC from storm surge is like diverting Colorado River to Imperial Valley to grow alfalfa and cotton (both are water intense crop) and not the river flow down to Gulf of California in Mexico and eventually the Pacific Ocean and call as "drought." I'm wondering what people will call this Blocking the Hudson River flow to the Atlantic Ocean as, as people call diverting Colorado River to Imperial Valley as drought. How about visiting Mexico - US border and see how the river has been diverted and keep deceiving and lying and breaking the international law at the same time by disrupting the natural flow of the river?

Seems appropriate for New Amsterdam