The Brooklyn Collection presents a selection of resources on Bedford-Stuyvesant. This neighborhood was born when the Village of Bedford expanded to include the area once known as Stuyvesant Heights.
Bed Stuy on the Move
Urban Planning Program Master Thesis by Matias Echanove about changes in the neighborhood
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Restoration), is the oldest community development corporation (CDC) in the United States
Brooklyn Community Board 3
Website for Brooklyn Community Board 3, which serves the neighborhood of Bed-Stuy
Department of City Planning’s Brooklyn Community District 3 (Bedford-Stuyvesant)
Neighborhood profile containing census information and a listing of selected facilities
NYC-architecture.com
Photographs of Bed-Stuy's architectural highlights
Walking Tours: Bedford-Stuyvesant
From the Department of Housing Preservation & Development
Weeksville Heritage Society
Website for the Weeksville Heritage Society, an organization dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th Century African American community located in current day Bedford-Stuyvesant/Crown Heights. The organization offer tours, children's programs, and genealogy workships.
Welcome to Bed-Stuy
A fun website for kids from the Brooklyn Children's Museum
A Ghetto Grows In Brooklyn
Harold X. Connolly
An African American history of Brooklyn that details the emergence of Bedford-Stuyvesant as one of the largest African American communities in the country.
Bedford-Stuyvesant place-names
Nicholas J. Marlow
This Master's Thesis provides a history and description of Bedford-Stuyvesant, and details the basis for the neighborhood's street names. A dictionary of place names is included.
Glory in a snapshot : a photographic look at Bedford-Stuyvesant then and now!
Bryant Johnson McInnis
Historic photographs of the people and landmarks of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Also provides a history and explanation of street names
The Black churches of Brooklyn
Clarence Taylor
Includes a chapter on the role of black churches in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn c.2004
Kenneth Jackson and John Manbeck
An invaluable introduction to Brooklyn’s many neighborhoods, with an illustrated chapter on each, including Bedford-Stuyvesant. Includes a map, a neighborhood profile and neighborhood facts.
The people of Brooklyn : a history of two neighborhoods
David Ment & Mary S. Donovan
Provides a history of Bedford-Stuyvesant (as well as Sunset Park) and its economic development. Includes maps and illustrations.
Wednesday at Weeksville
Edward Mapp
A work of historical fiction for children that describes an eventful day in the life of an eleven year old living in Weeksville, an early community of free African Americans in the current day Bedford-Stuyvesant/Crown Heights neighborhoods.
Weeksville then and now: the search to discover the effort to preserve memories of self in Brooklyn, New York
Joan Maynard
A history of Weeksville, a 19th Century community of free African Americans in the modern day Bedford-Stuyvesant/Crown Heights neighborhoods.
