The Hunterfly Road Houses at the Weeksville Heritage Center have reopened following exterior renovations and has received $1 ...

Nestled inside Prospect Park, Brooklyn sits an 18th-century farmhouse with white panels and a brown roof known as the Lefferts Historic House. Originally built in the 1680s, ...

The restoration of the Hunterfly Road Houses at the Weeksville Heritage Center preserves four wood-frame homes built in the 19th century that stand as the last remaining structures of one of the ...

This Black History Month, a piece of Brooklyn’s past has been brought back to life, restored, and ready to inspire a new generation. In Crown Heights, the Weeksville Heritage ...

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As the borough loses many Black residents, the business group highlighted a group of Black leaders at a celebration at ...

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Often called Brooklyn's best kept secret, the Weeksville Heritage Center sits on a quiet plot of land - the crown jewel of the Hunterfly Road Houses. In 1838, it was ...

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 more ...

In 2019, the Weeksville Heritage Center was in danger of closing. Situated on land that was once part of one of the largest free Black communities in the United States in the nineteenth century, the ...

A slice of Brooklyn that was home to one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America sought the promise of steady financial help from the city. By Julia Jacobs Two years ago, ...