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I'm in Bristol, a port town in the South West of England.

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You see this plaque? Remember this plaque -- It's going to be important in a minute --

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because what this plaque and its counterpart commemorate is the fact there is

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very literally, a bit of this city in New York.

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Same plaque, different location, here at Waterside Plaza in New York.

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See, here, on the East River, is a lot of landfill.

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Originally this whole section was a bit further away from the water,

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but in World War II, American supply ships went to Bristol, found that it was almost completely bombed out

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and, well, they needed something to help weigh them down on the way back across the Atlantic,

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so they literately took the rubble -- the stone, the brick of bombed out Bristol – loaded it onto their ships,

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took it back here, and then just dumped it in the East River.

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This little bump on the map, right here – this entire housing development which has the same 60's and 70's

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square brick architecture as Bristol because they were built at the same time – this development here,

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and for a few streets either way, is literally built on the rubble of Bristol.

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I am standing on a bit of England, here, in New York City. Something you might not have known.

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