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There was no damage to skyscrapers in Manhattan, but there was also no damage to any buildings built on sediments in Brooklyn, Queens, or anywhere else in the city. The bedrock story is a myth. https://buildingtheskyline.org/bedrock-and-midtown-i/ |
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In the United States, the '''Manhattan Prong''' of the [[New England Uplands]] is a smaller belt of ancient rock in southern [[New York (state)|New York]] (including [[Manhattan]], [[the Bronx]], and segments of [[Brooklyn]] and [[Staten Island]]), parts of [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]], and upland portions of southwestern [[Connecticut]]. The [[bedrock]] underlying much of Manhattan consists of three rock formations: ''Inwood [[marble]]'', ''Fordham [[gneiss]]'', ''Manhattan [[schist]]'', and ''[[Tuckahoe marble]]'', which are well suited for the foundations of Manhattan's [[skyscrapers]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865–1913|page=24|author1=Sarah Bradford Landau|author2= Carl W. Condit|year=1996|publisher=Yale University Press}}</ref>
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