The city ordered construction to stop at the Trump Soho Hotel Condominium New York site after human remains were excavated. Construction workers discovered the bones at 246 Spring St. last week, and the office of the medical examiner confirmed their authenticity, reporting that they could be up to 100 years old. The Department of Buildings subsequently issued the stop-work order, and the developers have hired a private archeologist to inspect the area. When the Bayrock Group, the Sapir Organization and The Trump Organization purchased the property in September 2005, it was a parking lot. Before that, it had been a church, complete with, that’s right, a graveyard (cue eerie music). The hot-condo should be completed by 2009—but we all know what finding human remains can do to a construction schedule.

