The line between Brooklyn and Queens is not a natural thing. North of Ridgewood it follows Newtown Creek and south of it Jamaica Bay, but the landlocked stretch in between has been redrawn street by street for generations. A boulder now sitting in the back yard of the Onderdonk House on Onderdonk Avenue once marked that boundary.
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An Ice Age boulder settled the Bushwick-Newtown border in 1769. The city paved over it in 1930, and it took historians seven years to dig it back up
An Ice Age boulder known as Arbitration Rock settled the colonial border between Bushwick and Newtown in 1769, was paved over in 1930, and recovered by historians in 2001 for display at the Onderdonk House in Ridgewood.
An Ice Age boulder settled the Bushwick-Newtown border in 1769. The city paved over it in 1930, and it took historians seven years to dig it back up
An Ice Age boulder known as Arbitration Rock settled the colonial border between Bushwick and Newtown in 1769, was paved over in 1930, and recovered by historians in 2001 for display at the Onderdonk House in Ridgewood.
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