Tag: Lower Manhattan

Ground Zero Yields African Burial Ground Relics By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

Thursday, November 15, 2001 Even as the grim recovery work at Ground Zero continues, another casualty of the World Trade Center terror attacks has emerged: the controversial African Burial Ground project. Officials say that some 100 boxes of burial ground artifacts were recovered from a laboratory in the basement of 6 World Trade Center, which…

November 15, 2001
Five Points Had Good Points By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

THE FIVE POINTS ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT In the early 1990s, a group of archaeologists began an excavation in Five Points. Their research revealed that there was much more to Five Points than the filthy, poor, and crime-infested area that early visitors had described. On February 22, 1998, the Daily News published an article by Michael O.…

February 22, 1998

Ground Zero Yields African Burial Ground Relics By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer