Vor New York City:
The ship graveyard has a storied history reaching back to World War 2, when the nearby scrapyard bought obsolete boats to scrap for parts. The influx of vessels outpaced the shipbreaker’s ability to take anything useful off of them, especially since people started dumping busted out dinghies there.
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