New York City: Archaeology Treasure Trove

Two shots of the interactive map of New York City.

So apparently New York City has a whole lot more to offer than a mean hot dog and subway stench vents. As an article in the New York Times mentioned, a hull of an 18th century ship was found 20-30 feet below street level. The article also included an interactive map (see link) with several other archaeological finds throughout the city. Maybe it's just me, but I've never thought of NYC as a place to search for information on our past. The city is so lively, so bustling, so now. It's easy to forget that underneath the trash and graffiti lies some of our country's most important history. Logically, it's a no-brainer. People have infested NYC for quite some time now, and I use infested because, well, have you ever been there? People constantly leave stuff around, and after fifty years or so, that stuff may become interesting to someone else. I wonder what we could find in Burlington.