Further Investigation Required, Sleep, Also

So among the bildungsromans written about the gentrification of New York, I read an actually interesting article giving some of the history of the East Village in the New York Times today.

Here’s the weirdest part:

“We began in Tompkins Square Park, a focal point in the neighborhood’s history, which before the 1800s was soupy swampland and marshes. The East River shoreline was where Avenue C is now; everything east of that was built on progressive stages of landfill — including, amazingly, rubble from bombed London, shipped across the Atlantic after World War II to form part of the foundation for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive.”

Rubble from bombed London? What?