The Bedford-Stuyvesant community in northwest Brooklyn is a residential area, home to ornate rows of brownstones, early middle-class apartment buildings and several institutional structures. Bedford-Stuyvesant is characterized by its wide, tree-covered avenues and low-scale residences; generally only church spires and school towers rise taller than four stories. The majority of the buildings were constructed on speculation to house New York’s growing middle class, generally between 1870 and 1920.
Stuyvesant Heights Historic District was designated in 1975
Bedford-Stuyvesant/ Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District was designated in 2013
Bedford Historic District was designated in 2015
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Bedford-Stuyvesant/Stuyvesant Heights Historic District and Extension
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Historic District
Brooklyn Carnegie Library: Bedford Branch
Alhambra Apartments
500-518 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Bedford Historic District
STATUS: Designated Historic District
Stuyvesant Heights Historic District
Stuyvesant Heights Neighborhood, MacDonough Street, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Historic District
677 Lafayette Avenue (Magnolia Grandiflora)
677 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
678 Lafayette Avenue (Magnolia Grandiflora)
678 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
679 Lafayette Avenue (Magnolia Grandiflora)
679 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1698 Bergen Street
1698 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1700 Bergen Street
1700 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1702-04 Bergen Street
1702-04 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1706-08 Bergen Street
1706-08 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Antioch (Formerly Greene Avenue) Baptist Church and Church House
Antioch Baptist Church, Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Boys’ High School
832 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Girls High School
475 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Public School 73
241 Macdougal Street, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Renaissance Apartments
140-44 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Saint George’s Protestant Episcopal Church
800 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USASTATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
Harriet and Thomas Truesdell House / 227 Duffield Street
STATUS: Designated Individual Landmark
All Buildings in Bedford-Stuyvesant
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- 677 Lafayette Avenue (Magnolia Grandiflora)
- 678 Lafayette Avenue (Magnolia Grandiflora)
- 679 Lafayette Avenue (Magnolia Grandiflora)
- Alhambra Apartments
- Antioch (Formerly Greene Avenue) Baptist Church and Church House
- Bedford Historic District
- Boys’ High School
- Brooklyn Carnegie Library: Bedford Branch
- Girls High School
- Harriet and Thomas Truesdell House / 227 Duffield Street
- Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1698 Bergen Street
- Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1700 Bergen Street
- Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1702-04 Bergen Street
- Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1706-08 Bergen Street
- Magnolia Grandiflora
- Public School 73
- Renaissance Apartments
- Saint George’s Protestant Episcopal Church