October 05, 2004
New York Unearthed by appointment only
New York Unearthed, a museum whose hours used to be merely inconvenient, are now nonexistent. The city's tiny archaeology museum is now open by appointment only, though some of its items can be found at the nearby South Street Seaport. NY Unearthed's web site offers a sad reminder of the "little things" lost Sept. 11: Artifacts from The Five Points, the 19th century neighborhood featured in Gangs of New York. These fascinating and evocative objects were recovered from an archaeological dig that yielded a total of 850,000 artifacts that were taken to an underground laboratory beneath the World Trade Center for further study. The objects now on display at 12 Fulton Street are the only ones from the dig to survive the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Another much-overlooked fact about the museum is that it sits at the site of the birthplace of "Moby Dick" writer Herman Melville.
October 5, 2004 08:20 AM in Downtown, History, Museums, Sightsology
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