The heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant is still found in the near-forgotten settlement of Brooklyn\'s Bedford Corners, a Dutch township colonized in 1667, where ancient Native American trails determined its now major thoroughfares, and where Colonial patriots fought the British in the country\'s struggle for independence.
Bedford-Stuyvesant remained a quiet farming hamlet until the 1880s when rapid subway transportation, construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the burgeoning population of Manhattan c.
The heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant is still found in the near-forgotten settlement of Brooklyn\'s Bedford Corners, a Dutch township colonized in 1667, where ancient Native American trails determined its now major thoroughfares, and where Colonial patriots fought the British in the country\'s struggle for independence
