By Julia Jacobs Two years ago, Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, which is dedicated to preserving the remnants of a thriving village established by Black New Yorkers in the years after the ...

Upgrades include a climate-controlled cellar, outdoor lighting, and additional improvements for the Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn’s largest African American cultural institution.

Weeksville was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest and first Black communities in America. The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the NYC Department of Design and Construction ...

Thousands of supporters of the Weeksville Heritage Center, a Crown Heights museum dedicated to the history of one of pre-Civil War America’s free black communities, have pooled together to raise ...

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Weeksville could have vanished altogether once before. The remains of the village of free African-Americans who had ...

It has been years in the making, and this weekend as tours of Weeksville’s historic Hunterfly houses resume, visitors will be able to get a glimpse of the completed ‘In Pursuit of Freedom’ exhibit.

The Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn is a really interesting historical site. The center aims to be a bridge between ...

at St. Marks Ave., Crown Heights; 718-756-5250 After taking a tour of the three wooden homes that remain from the Crown Heights village of Weeksville, thought to have been one of the first free ...

Scholars and specialists are gathering at Weeksville History Center to focus on the importance of acknowledging the contributions of women and you can play a role in the day. Visiting scholar Darold ...

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