Many of the Collages and Wearable Art shown on this website
are made from artifacts saved from the sites identified below.
Of course, I am always digging and looking for new sites so this is just a small list of many locations.



Montgomery Street, Staten Island
1850s Backyard Privy


Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
Backyard Privy: 1895 - 1910


Crosby and Broome Streets, Manhattan
1830s-40s Backyard Privy

Franklin Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1850s-70s Backyard Privy

Second Street and Avenue A, Manhattan
1840s-50s Backyard Privy

Elizabeth Street, Manhattan
1840s-60s Backyard Privy

Van Duzer Street, Staten Island
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Multiple Privies & two cisterns in the Backyard: 1840s-1880s

Bay and Hannah Streets, Staten Island

Over 200 bottles including colored sodas and historical flasks, redware plates, many pounds of transferware, and many other artifacts came out of one wood-lined privy . . . and there were 5 privies in this yard. These privies dates from the 1830s to the 1890s.

Dean Street, Brooklyn :
Privy & Cistern in the Backyard: 1840s-60s

Water and Front Streets, Manhattan
This was a 3 to 6 feet deep pipe trench in which I recovered artifacts from a circa 1750s-80s landfill.

East 10th Street, Manhattan
1830s-50s Backyard Privy

Suffolk Street, Lower East Side :
20 feet deep stone lined privy: 1830s-60s

Carmine and Bedford Streets, Manhattan :
Backyard Privy: 1830s-50s

South Bronx Shoreline Landfill
1920s-30s

Bronx/Westchester Creek Landfill
1890s-1910s

Queens Marsh Landfill
1920s-30s

Eckford Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Deep construction site that exposed a pond inlet and marshlands that were filled in the 1890s.

North Bronx Landfill
1900s-10s

Staten Island Shoreline Landfill :
1890-10s

Pacific Street, Brooklyn
Backyard cistern and privy: 1840s-70s

West 19th Street, Manhattan
Backyard privy: 1840s-60s

West 21st Street, Manhattan
Backyard privy: 1820s-30s

Delancey and Forsyth Streets, Manhattan
Privy cut down by construction: 1820s-30s

State and Hoyt Streets, Brooklyn
Very large cistern: 1850s-70s

Gold and Tillary Streets, Brooklyn
Construction site with privy and cisterns; also the location of a glass factory: 1850s-70's

West 15th Street, Manhattan
Backyard privy: 1830s-50s

Driggs and Grand Streets, Brooklyn
Multiple privies and cisterns on large site before development: 1840s-70's

Cranberry Street, Brooklyn
Home of Reverend Beecher: 1850s-60s bottles with pottery dating to the 1830's

Degraw Street, Brooklyn
1850s-70s Privy

Amity Street, Brooklyn
1850s-70s Privy

Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn
1840s-50s Privy

Taffee and Myrtle Avenues, Brooklyn
1840s-50s Wood-lined Privy

Canal Street and West Broadway, Manhattan
Construction site salvage excavation: 1830s-50s

West side Highway Project
Landfill from deep trenches: 1850s-90s

Leroy and Bedford Streets, Manhattan :
1830s-60s Backyard Privy

14th Place, Astoria, Queens
Landfill location: 1870s-80s

12th Street and Astoria Boulevard, Queens
1840s-60s Backyard Privy

Greenpoint Avenue and Monitor Street, Brooklyn :
Landfill: 1880's


Shards of pottery and fragments of bottles.






Hotel Key Tag from the 1890s
found in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

 

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