Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City

by Michael Woodsworth,
The Florida Courier, July 8, 2016

Located in central Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant was a shell of its former self by the 1950s. Tree-lined streets, beautiful brownstones, and an air of gentility had given way to crowded dilapidated dwellings or government constructed housing projects.