NYC's Smallest Landmark Is An 1800s Crown Heights Home

Although it's no longer recognized on the map as a Brooklyn neighborhood,Weeksville was a bustling community founded in the 1800s, of which remnants still exist today. According to PropertyShark, one remaining home even claims the distinction of the city's tiniest landmark. The settlement, bounded by Fulton Street and Ralph, Troy, and East New York avenues in today's Crown Heights (disputed by other sources as Bed-Stuy), was founded in the mid-1800s by ex-slave James Weeks as a free African American community within the city of Brooklyn. At a time of civil discord and reconstruction, Weeksville was a thriving, self-contained community.