Weeksville Heritage Center is intent on preserving the history of 19th-century African Americans.
For the past few years, Brooklyn has been charmed. From the New York Times to the HBO show Girls, the media has taken to calling this borough “the New Brooklyn,” a place of coffee shops and artisanal wares and gentrifying newcomers paying top price for real estate. Yet one of the most important things happening today in Brooklyn–on a few acres of land between the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and Brownsville neighborhood borders–is not new, but as old as the 19th century. Weeksville, a multidimensional museum and historic site, is bringing the past together with today’s Brooklyn in a way that is further improving an already-rich community.