Part of This Magically Growing City Weeksville’s Growth and Disappearance, 1880–1910

• Published in: Brooklyn's Promised Land p. 211
• Main Author: Wellman, Judith
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States NYU Press 07.11.2014; New York University Press
• Subjects: African Americans; American minorities; Anthropology; Applied arts; Applied sciences; Architecture; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Biological sciences; Biology; Building construction; Buildings; Business; Child growth; Children; Civil engineering; Clothing industry; Construction engineering; Consumer goods industries; Dressmaking; Dwellings; Economic disciplines; Economics; Engineering; Ethnic groups; Ethnology; Families; Family members; Homes; Houses; Human geography; Human growth; Human physiology; Human populations; Human societies; Industrial sectors; Industry; Labor; Labor economics; Manufacturing industries; Neighborhoods; Persons; Physiology; Plasterwork; Population studies; Residential buildings; Social geography; Social institutions; Social sciences; Sociology; Sons; Tailoring; Workforce
• ISBN: 0814724159; 9780814724156
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814744468.003.0011

By the 1880s, Weeksville was clearly integrated into the city of Brooklyn.¹ A decade earlier, in 1874, the “whole district lying east of Bedford avenue was cultivated as farmlands and market gardens,” with separate settlements surrounded by “old farm houses, with corn fields, meadows, and gardens,” noted theBrooklyn Eagle. By 1884, all that had changed. TheEaglerejoiced that Bedford, Crow Hill, Weeksville, New Brooklyn, East Brooklyn, and Brownville were all “merged into the common city, and all distinctive lines have been obliterated.” Along Fulton, Flatbush, and Atlantic Avenues, “brown stone stores and Philadelphia bricks have been erected by