Location

Neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, bounded to the north by Flushing Avenue, to the east by Broadway and Saratoga Avenue, to the south by Atlantic Avenue, and to the west by Classon Avenue.

Description

The neighborhood name is an extension of the name of the Village of Bedford, expanded to include the area of Stuyvesant Heights.  In the last decades of the 19th century, most of the pre-existing wooden homes were destroyed and replaced with brownstone row houses, which are highly sought after in the neighborhood's contemporary renaissance.  In the late 1980s, the neighborhood began to experience a renaissance which continues to the present day, which has greatly improved and increasingly stabilized the community. The revitalization and renewal of Bedford-Stuyvesant has prompted an increasingly diverse range of people to seek affordable housing among the many blocks of handsome brownstone townhouses. The gentrification has rehabilitated and reoccupied formerly vacant and abandoned properties. As a result, Bedford Stuyvesant is becoming increasingly racially and ethnically diverse.