New York: America’s Busiest City
Travel Documentary hosted by Anita Rani and Ade Adepitan and Ant Anstead and Dan Snow, published by BBC in 2016 – English narration
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New York: America’s Busiest City
Anita Rani, Ade Adepitan, Ant Anstead and Dan Snow are in New York to reveal the astonishing daily systems that allow America’s biggest and busiest city to function day and night.
1) Grand Central Terminal
Ade Adepitan, Anita Rani, Ant Anstead and Dan Snow take a closer look at one of the most complex and powerful cities in the world, focusing on transport links in the first edition. Anita, Ade and Ant head to Grand Central Terminal, joining the daily commute on the iconic Staten Island ferry as well as the subway, suburban railroad and citibikes. Dan visits Times Square to see how the 230 LED advertising hoardings are maintained, while Ade takes a ride in a #FF0000 cab, discovering that the business model is under threat from newly created taxi apps.
2) Fulton Fish Market
Anita Rani, Ade Adepitan, Ant Anstead and Dan Snow look at food consumption in the Big Apple. From dusk until dawn at the New Fulton fish market in The Bronx, they uncover the hidden night time operations, hard-nosed negotiations and price fluctuations of this enormous wholesale operation. Ade also looks into local apple production, Anita visits a cattle farm that supplies the region’s steakhouses, Ant visits the New NY Bridge, and Dan heads to Freshkills on Staten Island. Once the world’s biggest landfill, it’s been transformed into 2,200 acres of parkland.
3) Central Park
Behind the scenes with the team who look after all 843 acres of Central Park, revealing the hidden systems and organisational miracles that keep the world’s busiest urban park clean and green. Plus, Ant Anstead sees how an entirely new district is being built on top of a functioning rail depot in Manhattan and Dan Snow is in Coney Island, where he discovers that television, air conditioning and extreme weather almost killed off this historic amusement zone.
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Published on: Sep 14, 2016 @ 17:19
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