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It's insanely expensive to live in New York City, but is this a realistic solution? A professor at Rutgers named Jason Barr thinks the city should just EXPAND Manhattan and add more land at the bottom of it. (Here's a rendering of what he has in mind. It’s pretty wild.)
He published an opinion piece in the "New York Times", and wants to add 1,760 acres at the bottom of Manhattan, making it jut farther out into New York Harbor. He says it would make room for 180,000 more apartments. And it would also allow for big walls to be built to help deal with rising sea levels.
Manhattan has 10,890 acres of land right now, so his plan would make it about 16% bigger. The area he wants to add would be larger than the entire Upper West Side. It's not clear how much it would cost, but he claims it would pay for itself long term.
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