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Interview: Urban archaeologist Joan Geismar on the artifacts she’s dug up across New York
May 12, 2017

 

Archaeologist Digs for Ancient Outhouses in Gowanus
April 7, 2017

 

The New York Times

 

Red-Brick Remnant of a Beer-Brewing Past Appears, Only to Vanish
March 27, 2014

 

Raiders of the Lost City
July 22, 2010

 

Builders Unearth a Mystery in Times Square
December 21, 2009

 

Clues Emerge to Life of Irishman Buried Under Park
November 12, 2009

 

Gravestone From 1799 is Found in Washington Square Park
October 28, 2009

 

LETTERS | Survivors' Stairway
August 12, 2007

 

What May Have Made Good Neighbors Now Present a Puzzle
February 28, 2007

 

Do You Know the Muffin Man was on West 20th Street
July 28, 2006

 

Found: A Wall of Old New York, and It’s Blocking the Subway
December 8, 2005

 

In Manhattan, Dig this Find: Wall Dates to Colonial Times
December 7, 2005

 

Archaeologists Trace Mystery Wall Not to War but to Beer Archaeologistsr
July 31, 2005

 

Pipe Dreams
March 13, 2005

 

What Remains of the Day; In Vinegar Hill, a Last Look at a Revolutionary War Grave Site
December 13, 2003

 

How the History of New York City, in Little Pieces, Is Being Unearthed
April 16, 1989

 

Tenth Street Privy Yields Artifacts
November 17, 1987

 

Back to School and Back in Time
November 21, 1982

 

The Legends of Skunk Hollow
January 10, 1982

 

 

Wall Street Journal

 

An Urban Archaeologist's Manhattan Privy Mystery

August 24, 1993