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 ...

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

For Brooklyn’s African-American population in the 19th century, some of whom were recently freed from slavery, this remarkable town was called Weeksville. And it survives today in bits and pieces, ...

[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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

NEW YORK -- It's not exactly hidden, but is certainly a gem. Weeksville Heritage Center is tucked away in the midst of a residential community in Crown Heights, and stands as a testament of the ...

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