{"id":1734,"date":"2006-11-03T10:56:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/oh_my_god_an_old_rock.html"},"modified":"2006-11-03T10:56:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T18:56:31","slug":"oh_my_god_an_ol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/oh_my_god_an_ol.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh My God, An Old Rock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Greene residents are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/467714p-393591c.html\">protective of their rocks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Residents of Fort Greene don&#8217;t want a 400-million-year-old boulder that was dug up during a sewer upgrade project 10 days ago to be lost to their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the city yesterday used a flatbed truck to move the 10-ton stone to a new Queens park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It belongs to us,&#8221; said Nicco Beretta, 32, who lives on the Vanderbilt block where the stone was discovered. &#8220;They pulled it out of our street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The unusual rock was the first, and biggest, of four giant boulders uncovered on the block between Myrtle and Park Aves.<\/p>\n<p>Its removal has turned into a stone of contention in Fort Greene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The big one, the first one, should stay here where they found it,&#8221; said an emphatic Joseph Vollaro, 55, a 16-year resident of the block.<\/p>\n<p>The other rocks were discovered this week and pulled out of the ground by contractors working for the Department of Environmental Protection.<\/p>\n<p>One is destined for Fort Greene Park. The two smallest ones are going to Pugsley Creek Park in the Bronx, Parks Department officials said.<\/p>\n<p>One woman said all the rocks should stay in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are we, chopped liver?&#8221; asked Louise Barlow, 75, who lives five blocks from where the rocks were unearthed. &#8220;They should stay in their own hometown.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Just so we&#8217;re clear, the oldest known rock dates back about four billion years.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Greene residents are protective of their rocks: Residents of Fort Greene don&#8217;t want a 400-million-year-old boulder that was dug up during a sewer upgrade project 10 days ago to be lost to their neighborhood. Even so, the city yesterday used a flatbed truck to move the 10-ton stone to a new Queens park. &#8220;It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}