Any time you start a project in an old city you’re bound to make some interesting finds. When the new Federal Building was being constructed in lower Manhattan near Broadway and Canal, they found an old cemetery. It held up construction for a year as they excavated this archeological find and created a memorial to those buried there. [As an aside, a city isn’t necessary. When my son wanted to do his Eagle Project in Jockey Hollow (he was to realign a trail as part of the project) he came a cross an unusual pile of rocks. Since it might have been a chimney for one of the Revolutionary soldiers’ huts an archeologist had to be called. It took several months for them to determine it was not of importance.]
Apparently, a new subway tunnel under Battery Park ran into a wall. Riehl World View has the story and a link
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