While tunneling into the Battery Park City landfill recently, construction workers uncovered the concrete bulkhead set up there more than 100 years ago to protect against the Hudson River. The bulkhead is on the State Register of Historic Places and was one of the first structures ever to use concrete for construction. Nifty! But a state museum archaeologist who inspected the site still allowed the workers to remove part of the wall so a drainage system could be built because "it's just concrete." [Downtown Express]
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