The New York Transit Museum is hosting an exhibit of archeological artifacts found during construction of the new South Ferry Terminal.  The exhibit, which will open in the Transit Museum’s Annex at Grand Central station on March 18th, should help give a picture of life in lower Manhattan during the 18th and 19th century.

The museum will display a myriad of clay pipes (a common household item before the cigarette became popular), household crockery, wall tiles and various other artifacts associated with New York long before the MTA.  The artifacts were discovered during the construction of the new South Ferry Terminal. The new station was built while the original 1905-era South Ferry Terminal was still in use, which created the need for an enlarged construction foot-print, which in turn led to the discovery of the artifacts.

–Christopher F. Schuetze