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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.

‘The Last Slave’ of Queens: Department of Records uncovers life of George Rex who froze to death in Brooklyn

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