18th Century Ship Found Under WTC Site

[mookiemookie]

On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...e-center-site/

Amazing. Whenever I walk around old cities like NYC or Boston, I wonder how the street I'm walking on looked 100 or 200 years ago. Who walked it? What stores were here? What happened to them? It's amazing what can be found buried under a city street.