New Yorkers go about unaware of what’s beneath their feet: cables, power pulses, information flies, and steam flows. The city’s infrastructure starts just below street level, but it doesn’t stop there. This infographic by National Geographic goes to the bottom of that infrastructure.
The image above is not to scale. Click here for the scale version.
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