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How many miles of sewer pipe run beneath New York City?

7,400

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NYC's sewers stretch about 7,400 miles — laid end to end they'd reach from New York to Tokyo and still have pipe left over.SOURCENYC Department of Environmental Protection

Scale check: 7,400 is roughly a village.

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