i feel like it's important to demystify new york, what makes it distinctive is that a lot of people live there and that it's dense, that's it, everything else is a product of that, there's nothing magic, you just get a lot of stuff going on with a lot of people close together
Notice how they don’t put the 300 million gallons of water into a per household per year figure (look up how much water a typical household consumes per year)