Way cool!
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ ... -site/?hpw
My local paper just posted a photo, so I went to the New York Times for this article. As noted in the comments, the ship was likely a whaling ship of the type that frequented New York before the American Revolution. It's possible that the ship burned at dock-there were two major wharves at that spot-and was allowed to sink. In the 18th century the site of the World Trade Center-Ground Zero-was half on land, half in the Hudson River. The island was gradually filled and expanded. I've lived in San Francisco, so boats under the city is old hat to me-the shore was at Montgomery Street in the beginning, so there's a LOT of boats under the financial district (or were, before they were dug up for the skyscrapers). New York has considerably fewer boats, but excavations of areas like the old Five Points have yielded great stuff.
15 Jul 2010, 6:53 pm
