Sunset Park rock gets new home

A fabled rock in Sunset Park now has a new home, thanks to Green-Wood Cemetery. The Martense Lane rock has a popular following in Sunset Park, with legend saying it arrived thousands of years ago stamped

News 12 Staff

Nov 14, 2014, 12:41 AM

Updated 3,639 days ago

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A fabled rock in Sunset Park now has a new home, thanks to Green-Wood Cemetery.
The Martense Lane rock has a popular following in Sunset Park, with legend saying it arrived thousands of years ago stamped with the devil's footprint. After it was pulled out of the ground from a construction site, residents moved it to a new location on Fifth Avenue outside Green-Wood Cemetery.
The cemetery embraced it and gave the rock a new home behind their fence.
"We know we couldn't take it away, so we just found a safer way to display the rock and preserve it," says Ken Taylor, the cemetery's vice president.
The cemetery just put in cobblestone around the rock because the surrounding grass had worn away from foot traffic.