Around that same time, New York’s FDR Drive was being constructed, which ran along the east side of Manhattan. “Much of the landfill on which it is constructed consists of the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Second World War by the Luftwaffe’s blitz on London and Bristol. Convoys of ships returning from Great Britain carried the broken masonry in their holds as ballast.”

parts of manhattan are built on WW2 rubble from great britain

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