Queens Borough President Helen Marshall (l.) and Tom Finkelpearl, head of the Queens Museum of Art, accept a City Council resolution from Councilmember Helen Sears commemorating the 350th anniversary year of the historic Flushing Remonstrance during a ceremony on Friday, June 6. The document, currently on display at the museum, was signed in Queens in 1657 and was the first declaration of religious freedom in the then colonies. It is considered by many to be the antecedent to the free exercise of religion clause in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights.

Photo Dominick Totino, Office of the Queens Borough President