Construction workers excavating the World Trade Center site in New York City happened upon a 30-foot-long ship, dating back to the mid-1700s, some 20 or 30 feet below street level. They also seem to have found a (18th-century) shoe. [NYT]

Using the 6 train of the New York City subway, Improv Everywhere staged the first scene of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. It's definitely an upgrade over their usually train station-clogging antics.

Has anyone seen a six-foot-tall septuagenarian with an oxygen tank and a cane around New York City recently? Because one just robbed a clothing store last week.

The Agriculture Department rounded up 400 Canada geese in Brooklyn's Prospect Park last week and killed them so they'd stop flying into jet engines. One Brooklyn resident said it looked like the geese had "been Photoshopped out." [NYT; pic]

Alleged al Qaeda leader Adnan el Shukrijumah was indicted for planning 2009's failed subway bombing.

New York's Philosopher-Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent the day reflecting on his final, inevitable battle: "The doctor says I will die not from anything they found so far, but some day I will die," he said. [WSJ via NYM]

Three weeks ago, the Library of Congress released more than 40 videos of life in New York City in the early 1900s, including this one that's like a semi-scripted reality show. Who knew The City had such storied lineage!

New York City has a budget! $63 billion, with 2,000 job cuts.

Like most Brooklynites, web developer (for Gucci!) Mark Suppes has a hobby and a craft project to occupy his free time. Only, his hobby is physics. And his "craft project" is a working nuclear reactor, that he built himself.

[Thousands of people gathered in Central Park today to do yoga with acclaimed yogi Elena Bower. God expressed his displeasure by causing a thunderstorm, which rained out the proceedings. Pic via AP.]

If you've visited Times Square, you've probably either seen the Naked Cowboy gyrating around or been sucked into taking a touristy photo with him. Now there are two Naked Cowgirls on the street—and Naked Cowboy is pissed.

NYU's brand-new Abu Dhabi-based "sister school" will open its doors this fall to a class of 150 irritating overachievers. Poor Abu Dhabi. What is it getting itself into?

[Salsa singer Marc Anthony, King of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, attends to his subjects with his consort, Duchess Jenny of Block, on Fifth Avenue in New York City on Sunday. Affleck never did anything this fun. Pic via AP.]

Tourists suck. Use this map to avoid them in New York. Using Flickr's geotagging feature, Eric Fisher created this heat map showing where tourists took pictures versus where locals did. Red is tourists, blue is locals. (Click to enlarge.)

Meet the 8,074 New York Transit Workers Who Earn More Than $100,000

Three tobacco companies are suing the city over these overly graphic posters that cigarette retailers are now forced to display. We hate to agree with Big Tobacco, but we don't wanna see open heart surgery while buying our Diet Coke.

So many questions about this! Like: Why Cipriani Wall Street, bees? What, did you want to get onto Page 6? God knows there are not a lot of great restaurants in the FiDi, but Zaitzeff is only a few blocks away!

The manhunt continues for Christopher "Dudus" Coke in Jamaica, where at least 73 people have been killed in gun battles between security forces and Coke's "Shower Posse" since last weekend. Coke's brother is out on bail in Manhattan awaiting trial.

New York is getting a new subway map! It's the first redesign in more than a decade, and it mostly looks the same as the old map, but with new colors. Here are some of the big differences:

We love New York. No, really—we do. But in case you don't share this devotion, watch Moviefone's mashup of movie scenes that take place in the city that never sleeps. How many movies can you identify?