They were resting beneath our feet: Children's marbles. Bottles of Coca Cola or alcohol. Horseshoe fragments and the soles of men’s and women’s footwear. A pig’s tooth and a long bone from a sheep or goat.

City workers uncovered thousands of artifacts during a historic restoration of dozens of cobblestone blocks in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood.

The yearslong construction, completed this week, rebuilt narrow cobblestone streets and upgraded the stormwater and sewer systems in 26 blocks of one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city that sits between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Municipal agencies, working with preservationists, uncovered 2,800 items, with most dating from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, though some went back as far as the 1600s.

Mark Tweedie, the archaeological m

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