He might be surprised at how clean the city is -- coal was still a major source of home heating when he went into the ice, and now it's almost entirely gone from houses. No one uses the coal chute anymore, even if their building is old enough to have one -- and the air is much *much* cleaner.
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Date: 2012-06-15 12:44 am (UTC)NYC probably looks familiar, but *smells* wrong.