Remember when nearly every cruise ship hull was painted a crisp white or navy ... lips to a Peter Max-drawn New York skyline to the front and sides of ships. And the designs keep getting more ...

Workers at the World Trade Center site are excavating a 32-foot-long ship hull that apparently was used in the 18th century as part of the fill that extended lower Manhattan into the Hudson River.

The undertaking is being called 'urgent' by archaeologists as the ship's wooden hull, believed to be made ... project will give visitors a lifelike view of the site and what it may have looked ...