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New York City,
it's my kinda town.
Millions of people, crammed into
just a few square miles.
A hundred times
that many pigeons.
But there's also
national parks.
So right now, I'm gonna meet
a couple of my friends.
They don't know
they're my friends yet,
and visit
a few parks.
Lets see what happens.
Greetings, greetings.
Bill Nye?
Oh, my... hahaha
What are you
doing in here?
We're gonna check out
some national parks
Ok sounds good!
So this is Grant's Tomb.
This thing has 8,000
tons of granite.
The Eiffel Tower has
7,300 tons of steel.
There's 700 more tons of granite
than the Eiffel Tower.
That's a big deal.
On behalf of
the National Park Service,
welcome to the General
Grant National Memorial.
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Here let me show you
a couple of other things.
I'm sorry, a little
unconventional,
the guy behind me honked
when I stopped at the stop sign.
Our second stop,
Castle Clinton.
So was it actually
a castle?
Eh, No.
It was a fort.
So it is round.
Cannon balls would bounce off,
there's no sharp edges.
From here we can see
Liberty Island
and that's our next
national park, come on.
The thing that the statue
stands on is it's plinth.
And the Statue of Liberty has
got a fabulous plinth.
Gift of France,
she is coated in copper,
enough copper to make
30 million pennies.
So if it's made of copper
then why is it green?
Copper turns green in air,
in oxygen.
The same way
iron turns rust colored,
it's rust.
If you look closely I believe
you will see another
national park,
The African Burial Grounds.
And you know the old saying
if you can find a national park
in New York City,
you can find
a national park anywhere.
I'm not sure that's
an old saying.
But it should be!
So get out there
and find your park!
