Workers at a Greenpoint home unearthed parts of a skeleton in the backyard, the Times reports. The owner of 119 Kent St seems particularly nonchalant about human remains being found on his property: "Growing up in New York, not much surprises me. Of course, there's a skull in my backyard." In addition to a skull, police found a few pieces of vertebrae, and teeth. No word on whether a map to One-Eyed Willie's fortune was found along with the bones.
The Times traces the ownership of the property to a Russian physician who lived there from 1905 through 1967, and the block also has many other homes that are old: "the cornerstone to the Church of the Ascension at 127 Kent Street was placed in 1853." A passerby told the Times that this rules out foul play, saying "It makes sense that there would be a body or two buried in these backyards." True, especially if it happened to be a constable who trapped himself back there.
