The increased bus traffic, belching exhaust, made things still bleaker.
Back in "the regular world", car exhaust made her feel sick for days.
Maico did his best to keep an accurate count the next day, but by lunchtime the exhaust made him swoon.
It took about two hours for the bus to wend its way from Times Square to Battery Park, by which time the heavy exposure to exhaust made for red eyes and a burning throat.
Inside, Cadillac comfort rules, even if the CTS-V's growling exhaust makes the ride somewhat noisier than it was in your grandpa's old atomic-powered Fleetwood.
But there was a side effect: The leftover oxygen in the exhaust makes it hard to remove smog-forming nitrogen oxides.
Young's version is lowered right to the ground with a chopped roof, fender flares, a "carbon-fibre" rear spoiler and an aftermarket exhaust made out of a Red Bull container.
Sure, it's fast, its exhaust makes all the right muscle-car roars and whomps, and the GTO (unlike those of yore) can at least give chase to European and Japanese sports car rivals when the road starts to shimmy and twist.
I left exhausted, making my way down the tower's endless segments of escalators.
