Construction workers at the World Trade Center site uncovered a historic wall that once separated the streets of Lower Manhattan from the Hudson River, DNAinfo reported. While sections of the wall have always been visible above Chambers Street, this piece, found today along West Street between Liberty and Vesey streets, has been hidden by the landfill on which Battery Park City was built. So far, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has exposed a section of granite blocks 19 feet long and 8 feet tall, part of Manhattan’s first seawall, which was built over 100 years ago and is part of a much larger blockhead that runs to 59th Street. But the Port Authority plans to demolish an 80-foot long section of the wall to make room for an underground passage to connect the World Trade Center with Battery Park City, slated for completion
in December 2012. [DNAinfo]
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