• Thumbnail for Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
    neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. BedfordStuyvesant is bordered by Flushing Avenue to the north (bordering Williamsburg)...
    109 KB (11,717 words) - 01:42, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
    19th century and the early 20th century, the neighborhood of BedfordStuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York, was home to middle class German, Dutch, Italian,...
    25 KB (2,918 words) - 20:02, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ocean Hill, Brooklyn
    Ocean Hill is a subsection of BedfordStuyvesant in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 16 and was...
    16 KB (1,889 words) - 21:51, 14 April 2024
  • neighborhood Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village Stuyvesant Apartments Stuyvesant High School...
    1 KB (157 words) - 22:31, 15 July 2024
  • town of Bedford Bedford Hills, New York, a hamlet BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn, a neighborhood Bedford, a neighborhood within BedfordStuyvesant This disambiguation...
    391 bytes (88 words) - 22:19, 26 February 2019
  • Thumbnail for Everybody Hates Chris
    Everybody Hates Chris (category Television shows set in Brooklyn)
    loosely on Rock's personal experiences as a teenager living in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City from 1982 to 1987. However, Rock's real-life adolescence...
    24 KB (1,720 words) - 12:04, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Brooklyn neighborhoods
    (separated from Bushwick in 1840, annexed to Brooklyn in 1854) Bedford-Stuyvesant Boerum Hill Brooklyn Heights Brownsville Carroll Gardens City Line...
    13 KB (739 words) - 19:44, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bedford Avenue
    Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Midwood, Marine Park, and Sheepshead Bay. Bedford Road, passing through Bedford Pass, was an...
    8 KB (576 words) - 17:01, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Forsythe (actor)
    William Forsythe (actor) (category People from BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    Forsythe was born in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, and grew up in its BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood. He is of partial Italian descent. Forsythe...
    15 KB (467 words) - 02:33, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boys High School (Brooklyn)
    school building in the BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States. It is regarded as "one of Brooklyn's finest buildings". The...
    13 KB (1,270 words) - 04:15, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mike Tyson
    Mike Tyson (category People from BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    children on her own. Kirkpatrick died in 1992. The family lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when...
    219 KB (18,265 words) - 20:33, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bed-Stuy Aquarium
    Bed-Stuy Aquarium (category Brooklyn)
    Aquarium) is a makeshift goldfish pond located on a sidewalk in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. The pond, formed by a puddle from...
    10 KB (851 words) - 21:02, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fulton Park (Brooklyn)
    Fulton Park is a park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. It is named after Robert Fulton, who is best known for launching the first commercially...
    1 KB (67 words) - 15:59, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fulton Street (Brooklyn)
    Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. At Franklin Avenue, Fulton Street then becomes the signature street of BedfordStuyvesant. At Broadway...
    19 KB (1,673 words) - 23:21, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bedford–Nostrand Avenues station
    at Lafayette Avenue between Bedford and Nostrand Avenues in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by the G train at all times. This station opened...
    16 KB (1,289 words) - 16:15, 26 October 2024
  • Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps (BSVAC) is America's first minority volunteer ambulance corps, founded in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn,...
    4 KB (385 words) - 21:45, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tony Rock
    Tony Rock (category People from BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    born in Brooklyn, New York. The son of Rosalie (née Tingman) and Julius Rock (d. 1988), he grew up on Decatur Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood...
    11 KB (569 words) - 18:22, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marcy Houses
    Marcy Houses (category BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and located in BedfordStuyvesant and is bordered by Flushing, Marcy, Nostrand and Myrtle avenues. The...
    6 KB (385 words) - 21:41, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Helen Palmer (writer)
    Helen Palmer (writer) (category People from BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    born in New York City in 1898 and spent her childhood in BedfordStuyvesant, a prosperous Brooklyn neighborhood. As a child, she contracted polio, but recovered...
    10 KB (1,070 words) - 18:17, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lola Brooke
    Lola Brooke (category People from BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    Records in 2023. Shyniece Thomas was born on February 1, 1994 in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn, where she was also raised. She is an only child and was raised...
    16 KB (958 words) - 05:32, 20 November 2024
  • Lesra Martin (category People from BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    Lesra Martin (born April 11, 1963) is an American-Canadian lawyer, motivational speaker and writer. He is perhaps best known for helping to bring about...
    4 KB (324 words) - 12:08, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Broadway (Brooklyn)
    neighborhoods of Bushwick, which lies above Broadway to the northeast, and BedfordStuyvesant, which is to the southwest. When Williamsburg was an independent city...
    10 KB (936 words) - 14:01, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ali Shaheed Muhammad
    Ali Shaheed Muhammad (category People from BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    producer Adrian Younge. Muhammad was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and was raised in the BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood. He began to DJ at age eight...
    13 KB (1,051 words) - 01:58, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jay-Z
    Jay-Z (category People from BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    December 4, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York City. He was raised in Marcy Houses, a public housing project in Brooklyn's BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood. His...
    170 KB (15,393 words) - 08:30, 20 November 2024
  • Junior M.A.F.I.A. (category Musical groups from Brooklyn)
    Junior M.A.F.I.A. was an American hip hop group from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. The backronym M.A.F.I.A. stands for Masters At Finding...
    13 KB (1,322 words) - 01:14, 31 July 2024
  • and meeting place formed in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Through first-hand interviews with founding members and people...
    7 KB (617 words) - 04:22, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Myrtle Avenue
    thoroughfare through the neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Ridgewood, and Glendale. In the neighborhoods of Fort Greene...
    15 KB (1,366 words) - 11:07, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street)
    Franklin Avenue station (Fulton Street) (category BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    City Subway, located at Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn. It is served by the: Franklin Avenue Shuttle at all times C...
    26 KB (2,119 words) - 02:34, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Weeksville, Brooklyn
    the formation of The Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History (now the Weeksville Heritage Center). Joan Maynard was a founding...
    10 KB (1,036 words) - 10:27, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kadeem Hardison
    Kadeem Hardison (category People from BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn)
    Netflix series Teenage Bounty Hunters. Hardison was born in BedfordStuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Donald McFadden, an antique and...
    17 KB (699 words) - 05:34, 19 October 2024