While traveling through Manhattan, an NYU expert uncovers troubling air pollution levels in places you wouldn’t expect.

By Lauren Dalban

George Thurston stood at a bus stop on Manhattan’s east side, just a block from his office and the FDR Drive, a major highway in the city. He looked down at his large air monitor—a plastic tube jutted out of it, sucking in the surrounding air and measuring the amount of invisible particle pollution that surrounded him.

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