Some 1999 research

Thanks for the info, my info is dated for New York State and the comparison I was alluding to, by Ezra Zubrow, I remember was a statistical comparison of east-west differences in archaeological survey. One was the surface walk over, in the east 3 or 4 would walk down the furrows of a field, "out west" 3 would walk and one would zig-zag behind the 3. Other info was analyzed, i.e. average size of the survey, costs per acre etc., sort of "raw" analyses. That certainly sounds great for analysis! I have that feeling too sometimes that the research hasn't been completed, before the work. The research and other factors get very complicated in urban settings, especially back around the time those German tourists died in the Concorde crash in France on their way over here to be tourists in America. I could research the torn down empty lots but not some of the buildings now since torn down next to one another that perhaps were the "Steuben House" (for returning Civil War veterans and prior the National Guard called out to defend Washington, D.C.) and "Germania Hall" where a now National Register house owner from Troy, NY, Kate Mullaney, sitting next to Susan B. Anthony, was the first woman elected to a union. She had organized the white collar workers who washed and ironed the newly invented detachable men's collar. It's listed simply in a new history of gotham as a "bowling alley". Complicating the situation was that later "Steuben House" was known as the notorious "McGurk's Suicide Bar" where some women in the oldest profession had poisoned themselves, and in it were artists and noted feminist Kate Millet, an Oxford grad feminist and the people there trying to save some of the old buildings in the Bowery, once NYC's theater district before it moved up to Broadway, leaving the Yiddish Theater which was sort of destroyed in subway expansion, though by then pretty run down on NYC's Houston St. ("Howston" we still say after the Scottish merchant). The older records, like phonebooks are listed by name one year another listed by address, making it hard to compare the lot "chain of title" owners with the residents. But with IT there's more and more info, like indexed photos of every building at one time in NYC, and other info that's a little easier to get to than I imagine my grandfather a real estate reporter working in the "Hall of Records" during the Great Depression. His son, with polio in a wheelchair, died in an elevator accident there just before my father was to ship out in WWII to Italy. They've fairly recently fixed up the elevators there under the federal disabilities act to be more handicapped accessible.