after people

we saw this show on the history channel yesterday called life after people. it was about what would happen to the earth over the months, years, decades, centuries if all the people on it suddenly disappeared. (died? were taken up by aliens? launched themselves into space? unknown; we're just gone.) how the flora and fauna would gradually retake the planet and human-made structures would fail and collapse. i've decided i would like to somehow live in new york city 100 or 150 years after all the other people have gone. i would like to bear witness to that kind of entropy on our major cities. maybe be like will smith in that new movie of his i haven't seen yet. oh well. it was an interesting show, anyway.