Remnant Of Lovelace Tavern, Old NY: New Amsterdam — Attraction in New York

If you want to know more about this important dig, a first for urban archaeology in NYC back in 1979-1980, you can check out a couple of interesting posts from the Museum of the City of New York and the NYC Department of Records and Information Services respectively. Each has great photos of the aggregated collection of artifacts found and a photo of the site as it looked when still a parking lot before construction of the then new Goldman Sachs HQ, which began in 1983. https://blog.mcny.org/2016/04/19/smoking-drinking-and-governing-archaeology-of-the-lovelace-tavern/ And here is the other: https://newamsterdamstories.archives.nyc/blog/archaeology-stories-lovelace-tavern You can access the report through the Landmarks Preservation Commission by searching...

If you know, you know. Archeological NY. The rectangular yellow bricks was where the original City Hall was located, going back to the 1670s. The white lines are the remnant of the Lovelace Tavern and the metal under the blue.umbrellas were where the ships would port. The sailors would drink beer at...

I really want to give this 5 stars because it is awesome that they let the public see this old 1670's tavern, however the site really needs some work. You can hardly see the plaques below the glass. It is still cool to see the ruins of a 17th century tavern in downtown NY but I wish they would...