City Hall Park

City Hall Park, New York, NY (1989)

1989

Thousands of artifacts were excavated from what was once the kitchen of New York City's first municipal Almshouse. This collection represents one of the few almshouse grounds to have been excavated by archaeologists in the United States. The site provides ...

City Hall Park, New York, NY (1999 / 2008)

1998 - 1999

Brooklyn College analyzed the discoveries made by archaeological testing completed in 1998–1999 in City Hall Park by Parsons Engineering Science. Most of the artifacts that were recovered are from the 18th century and may be associated with the civic ...

City Hall, New York, NY (1991)

Testing, monitoring, and excavations uncovered historic burials, thousands of disarticulated human remains, a privy, a cold storage shed and other finds. The burials are either from the almshouse (most likely), African Burial Ground, or Revolutionary War prisoners. The artifacts and ...

City Hall Park, New York, NY (1988)

1988

Archaeological Sensitivity evaluation from 1988 for an area within Northern City Hall Park which noted that the area had the potential to contain archaeological resources associated with the 18th-century Barracks and Almshouse.  Click here to access: Archaeological Sensitivity Evaluation ...

Tweed Courthouse, City Hall Park, New York, NY (2003)

2000 - 2001

Archaeological work completed adjacent to Tweed Courthouse in City Hall Park uncovered many archaeological resources dating to the 18th and 19th centuries. Most significantly, a burial ground and fragmentary human remains were revealed as well as a privy, and a ...

City Hall Park, New York, NY (1992)

1992 - 1995

Project completed in 1995 within City Hall Park at the corner of Chambers and Centre Streets in Lower Manhattan. Testing uncovered 18th and 19th century artifacts and the foundations of the 18th century foundations. The artifacts are within the NYC ...

City Hall Park, New York, NY (2011 / 2013)

2010 - 2011

Excavations at New York's City Hall Park between 2010 and 2011 produced artifacts and features from the 18th through 20th centuries. Many of these come from the Revolutionary War period when the park was the site of British barracks, an ...