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The show is a family sitcom, patterned on Chris Rock's recollection of his teenage years growing up in the 1980s with a wholesome, tight-knit, African-American family, while living in drug-and-gang infested Bedford–Stuyvesant, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and also attending a cross-town, all-white public junior high school.
From Bedford–Stuyvesant, African Americans have since moved into the surrounding areas of Brooklyn, such as East New York, Crown Heights, Brownsville, and Fort Greene. Since the early 2000s, Bedford-Stuyvesant has undergone significant gentrification, resulting in a dramatic demographic shift combined with increasing rent and real estate prices.
The BSRC also produced a television series about the neighborhood, Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant, which premiered in April 1968. [28] By December, the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation had restored 400 brownstones and tenements with the help of 272 local residents, 250 of whom were later hired in full-time construction jobs.
Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina, on February 7, 1965. [2] Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.A few years later, they relocated and settled in the working class area of Bedford–Stuyvesant. [3]
Elsie Richardson (February 24, 1922 – March 15, 2012) [1] was a community activist and civil servant in Brooklyn, New York.She is best known for founding the Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council and contributing to the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, created after she advocated to Robert F. Kennedy.
The Bed-Stuy Aquarium (also known as the Hancock Street Bed-Stuy Aquarium) is a makeshift goldfish pond located on a sidewalk in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. The pond, formed by a puddle from a leaky fire hydrant, garnered attention from locals and the press beginning at the time of its creation in August 2024 ...
People from Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (113 P) Pages in category "Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
Boys and Girls High School, the oldest public high school in Brooklyn, is a comprehensive high school in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, United States. The school is located at 1700 Fulton Street. [2]