Construction at Ground Zero revealed a 110-foot deep pothole that is offering geologists a crazy glimpse into an archeological wonderland. The cavernous site revealed rock imprints over 500 million years old (so take that, creationism).

A fantastic landscape in Lower Manhattan - plummeting holes, steep cliffsides and soft billows of steel-gray bedrock, punctuated by thousands of beach-smooth cobblestones in a muted rainbow of reds and purples and greens - has basked in sunlight this summer for the first time in millennia.

This monumental carving was the work of glaciers, which made their last retreat from these parts about 20,000 years ago, leaving profound gouges in the earth and rocks from the Palisades, the Ramapo Mountains and an area of northern New Jersey known as the Newark Basin.

Sweet. Does it almost make up for 9/11? Nope. But at least one guy at the site had a good idea for the Ghostbuster 2-esque ravine memorial:

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The confidential blueprints for the new Freedom Tower at Ground Zero were found by a homeless guy in a trash can. That's also where Al Qaeda was planning to plant a bomb had it got its hands on 'em. [NYP]

• Did you guys hear? The restaurant business in New York gets pretty crooked at times. Shocking, we know. [NYDN]

• New Yorkers can't appreciate the cultural mecca (read: drug haven) that is The Chelsea Hotel. [Gothamist]

• There is still beauty left in the city. But only of the Japanese breed. [NYT]

• In no time, the Freedom Tower will be built, along with a handful of other buildings, and New York won't just feel like another country. It will look like another planet. [Curbed]

• It's so non-Financial District, they're even calling it Greenwich St. [NYO]

• The World Trade Center attacks: the terrorism gift that just keeps on giving. [NYT]

• Ellen Degeneres spends the week in New York City. Though, she may want to watch her back after taking over Oprah's time slot … the Hearst building is right at Central Park! [Ellen]

• He hands out money to kids and runs a homeless male shelter and nobody suspected anything? Sometimes, it's OK to trust your "creepy guy" gut. [NYP]

• We thought it seemed quieter out on the streets. Thankfully, all those damn kids are back indoors now. [NYDN]

• Stuyvesant and Peter Cooper Village tenants aren't too quick to give up their rent stabilized apartments. [Gothamist]

• This whole Anthony Pellicano thing is really funny, until some Vanity Fair journalist gets hurt. [DHD]

• A girl blogs about her life as a hooker in Brazil … [NYT]

• … While another blogs about her life as a hooker for Ron Burkle. Think Nobu and crazy girls who are now pregnant. [Live Journal]

• Things are moving at Ground Zero. No, they are. We're not lying. [AP]

• It wasn't Amy Fischer's fault she shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the face. It was totally the ecstasy's fault. [AP]

• Because being attacked by a lightbulb wasn't bad enough, Teri Hatcher then gets attacked by the paparazzi … who mind you have lots of flashing bulbs on their cameras. [TMZ]

• It's actually quite comforting to see evidence that Donald Trump is as unpersonable as he appears, especially when it comes to the gays. [MSNBC]

• With 10 articles totaling 11,500 words, the Washington Post makes it clear: Nobody gives a fuck about Prince Charles and Lady Camilla. [Slate]

• New ads promoting Howard Stern's move to Sirius are, fittingly, not appropriate for radio or TV. [NYP]

• Celeb weeklies are in a sales funk? Say it isn't so — we need a reason to exist beyond the $2.99 price point. [NYP]

• Why did Aaron Brown's NewsNight suck so much, at least compared to Anderson Cooper? Not because of his talent but because of the shitty way the show was produced. So they say. [Radar]

• Six hybrid cabs have hit the streets of New York and, while they won't officially be unveiled until next week, try your hand on getting the only ride in a Ford Escape you can brag to your friends about. [NY1]

• Construction has begun on the World Trade Center site, and we mean more than a ribbon cutting. In fact, actual concrete has been poured. [NYT]