Sometimes we forget how old New York City is, given the constant development and redevelopment. But really, European settlers have been here for about 400 years. 

(You can even see what your neighborhood looked like way back before settling, when Manhattan was a primeval Lenape paradise.) 

Now, 400 years isn't so long on the global scale, there are cities that are thousands of years old, but a lot has gone down here in NYC since the Dutch dropped roots.

So, is it any surprise that construction workers unearthed a burial vault of unidentified bones from the Revolutionary Times? 

That's right, right next to Washington Square Park. Who would have thought?

It may not be as shocking as you might think, at first, given the history of this city. At the time the remains were buried, the area was being utilized as a "potter's field," or public burial site. So it's likely there are even more remains laying around the area.

Now if you add that to the amount of people who have died around the City, laid out on the convenient and creepy map of NYC death sites, it's pretty obvious, albeit macabre, that we're surrounded by death and bodies everywhere we go.

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But what did the public think of the unearthed burial vault? Some people were creeped out to find out they'd been strolling over a huge pile of centuries-old bones, but some of them were pretty cool with it. 

All that being said, CBS News was on the scene last night and took some great shots; take a look at the footage below.