City grid map8/9/2023 ![]() And they unearthed a roughly three-foot-tall, nine-inch-square white stone, two sides of which were inscribed with numbers. ![]() They found eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Chinese porcelain, blue earthenware fragments, and the rim of a pearlware teacup, as well as the stem of a clay pipe and brown, olive, aqua, and purple glass shards. As they dug, they filtered excavated soil through a screen. ![]() They started at seven-thirty in the morning, and by midday the hole was big enough for them both to stand in. On an overcast day in November, 2014, just before Thanksgiving, two men dug a rather large hole in a lawn in Central Park. Photograph by Michael Appleton / The New York Times / Redux ![]() The intersection in focus, Sixth Avenue at West Eighty-sixth Street, is now a part of Central Park. An original copy of John Randel, Jr.’s Manhattan grid map at the County Clerk's Office, in New York. ![]()
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