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Bedford-Stuvvesant is the amalgam of two middle-class communities of the
old City of Brooklyn: Bedford, the western portion, and Stuyvesant Heights, to
the east. Today's BedfordStuyvesant is one of the city's two major black
enclaves; the other is its peer, Harlem. Bed-Stuy differs from its Manhattan
counterpart in its much larger percentage of home owners, although Harlem is
rapidly following its lead in gentriying its own blocks. The southern and
western portions comprise masonry row housing of distinguished architectural
quality and vigorous churches whose spires contribute to the area's frequently
lacy skyline. The northeastern reaches have considerable numbers of wooden
tenements, containing some of the nation's worst slums. But on the whole,
Bed-Stuy has a reputation that doesn't fit with reality: a stable community with
hundreds of blocks of well-kept town houses.Where Bedford-Stuyvesant has
distinguished architecture, it is very good. Its facades of brownstones and
brickfronts create a magnificent townscape as good as-and sometimes better
than-many fashionable areas of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Parts of Chauncey,
Decatur, MacDonough, and Macon Streets, and the southern end of Stuyvesant
Avenue, are superb. Hancock Street, between Nostrand and Tompkins Avenues, was
considered a showplace in its time (why not now too?). Alice and Agate Courts,
short cul-de-sacs isolated from the macrocosm of the street system, are
particularly special places in the seemingly endless, anonymous grid.
Bed-Stuy comprises roughly 2,000 acres and houses 400,000 people, making
it among the 30 largest American cities.
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