ABOUT WEEKSVILLE

WEEKSVILLE was a 19th century Black community located in the ninth ward of Brooklyn, New York. It was named for JAMES WEEKS, a Black man who purchased land there in 1838 from the Lefferts family estate.

There were earlier Black landowners, however they did not live there and the area became known as WEEKSVILLE.
   
     "Mr. Weeks, a stevedore and a respected man of the community owned a handsome dwelling at Schenectady and Atlantic Avenues." (The New York Age - 1906)