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  • Vanity- NYC trip...best tour(s) suggestion

    06/14/2010 12:31:35 PM PDT · by WOBBLY BOB · 104 replies · 534+ views
    ME ^ | Wobbly Bob
    I did some searches on tours, so far Onboardnewyorktours.com looks to be a possible choice with their "See the Best" tour... I like Revolutionary War history and American history in general. (I also like pubs.)
  • Found: Old Wall in New York, and It's Blocking the Subway

    12/08/2005 3:09:12 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 88 replies · 2,659+ views
    NY Times ^ | December 8, 2005 | PATRICK McGEEHAN
    Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityThe top of an old wall was discovered by workers digging a new subway tunnel under Battery Park. Three weeks after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority started digging a subway tunnel under Battery Park, the project hit a wall. A really old wall. Possibly the oldest wall still standing in Manhattan. It was a 45-foot-long section of a stone wall that archaeologists believe is a remnant of the original battery that protected the Colonial settlement at the southern tip of the island. Depending on which archaeologist you ask, it was built in the 1760's or as long ago...