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man, that is wack. I guess the sea level dropped dramatically? cause "old New York" being up on that island ridge in the back with the old bridges connecting it across is wild.
There was supposed to be more lore around sea levels dropping and the flying car that justified the vertical New York presented in the beginning.
See that makes more sense than what I thought, which is that weird sci-fi trope of stacking skyscrapers such that they form whole undercities, which never seemed like an especially good use of real estate to me, dystopic conditions notwithstanding
I think I read somewhere the earth had exported a lot of its water, possibly to Phloston Paradise? Hence the lower levels