{"name":"Weeksville Heritage Center","city":"New York City, New York","canonical_url":"https://gydeinfo.com/new-york-city/places/weeksville-heritage-center/","markdown_url":"https://gydeinfo.com/new-york-city/places/weeksville-heritage-center.md","updated_at":"2026-06-20T00:36:02.127237+00:00","facts":[{"claim":"The organization was founded as the Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant in 1970, later becoming the Weeksville Heritage Center.","citation":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeksville_Heritage_Center","source_title":"Weeksville Heritage Center (Wikipedia)","source_type":"manual","allowed_use":"facts_with_citation","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:33.687114+00:00","fact_type":"history","as_of":"1970","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"By the 1850s, Weeksville had grown to over 500 residents and became a haven for Black New Yorkers seeking opportunity and safety.","citation":"https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/02/mayor-mamdani-announces-completion-of-weeksville-restoration--pr","source_title":"Mayor Mamdani Announces Completion of Weeksville Restoration (NYC.gov)","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:32.878638+00:00","fact_type":"history","as_of":"1850s","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"In 2014, the center opened an 18,000-square-foot education and cultural arts building designed by Caples Jefferson Architects, featuring state-of-the-art exhibition, performance, and educational facilities.","citation":"https://nylandmarks.org/explore-ny/weeksville-heritage-center/","source_title":"Weeksville Heritage Center (NYC Landmarks Conservancy)","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:32.052702+00:00","fact_type":"architecture","as_of":"2014","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"Local preservationists rediscovered the surviving houses in 1968, having nearly been lost to urban renewal, and successfully fought to preserve them.","citation":"https://nylandmarks.org/explore-ny/weeksville-heritage-center/","source_title":"Weeksville Heritage Center (NYC Landmarks Conservancy)","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:32.052702+00:00","fact_type":"history","as_of":"2026","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"Today, the center offers yoga classes, arts and crafts, film screenings, exhibitions, and intergenerational events that carry forward the spirit of self-determination from the original settlement.","citation":"https://nylandmarks.org/explore-ny/weeksville-heritage-center/","source_title":"Weeksville Heritage Center (NYC Landmarks Conservancy)","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:32.052702+00:00","fact_type":"history","as_of":"2026","confidence":0.95},{"claim":"Pre-registration is required for all guided tours; public tour tickets must be booked at least 48 hours in advance, and payment is made online only.","citation":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/visit/tours/","source_title":"Tours - Weeksville Heritage Center","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:30.419885+00:00","fact_type":"admission","as_of":"2026","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"Only visitors on guided tours may enter the historic Hunterfly Road Houses; self-guided visitors cannot enter the houses.","citation":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/visit/tours/","source_title":"Tours - Weeksville Heritage Center","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:30.419885+00:00","fact_type":"admission","as_of":"2026","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"The historic Hunterfly Road Houses, built during Weeksville’s 19th-century heyday along an old Native American trail and colonial road, are rare surviving examples of homes of free people of color in the urban North.","citation":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/visit/tours/","source_title":"Tours - Weeksville Heritage Center","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:30.419885+00:00","fact_type":"history","as_of":"19th century","confidence":0.95},{"claim":"The Weeksville Heritage Center is open Tuesdays–Fridays 10:00AM–5:00PM and Saturdays 11:00AM–5:00PM; it is closed Sundays and Mondays.","citation":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/visit/","source_title":"Visit - Weeksville Heritage Center","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:29.578824+00:00","fact_type":"hours","as_of":"2026","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"General admission to the site is free and open to the public; guided tours require pre-registration and booking at least 24 hours in advance and have separate costs.","citation":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/visit/","source_title":"Visit - Weeksville Heritage Center","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:29.578824+00:00","fact_type":"admission","as_of":"2026","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"Guided tour costs are $8 for children and seniors, and $10 for adults.","citation":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/visit/","source_title":"Visit - Weeksville Heritage Center","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:29.578824+00:00","fact_type":"admission","as_of":"2026","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"The Weeksville Heritage Center is an historic site and cultural center in Central Brooklyn dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of Weeksville, one of America's first free Black communities.","citation":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org","source_title":"Weeksville Heritage Center - Official Home Page","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:28.755553+00:00","fact_type":"history","as_of":"2026","confidence":0.95},{"claim":"The historic Hunterfly Road Houses were restored in a $4 million project completed in February 2026, preserving four 19th-century wood-frame homes that are the last remaining structures of one of the nation’s largest pre-Civil War free Black communities.","citation":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org","source_title":"Weeksville Heritage Center - Official Home Page","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:28.755553+00:00","fact_type":"history","as_of":"2026","confidence":1.0},{"claim":"Weeksville was founded in 1848 by James Weeks, a formerly enslaved man from Virginia, who purchased land with other free Black men to create an intentional landowning community.","citation":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org","source_title":"Weeksville Heritage Center - Official Home Page","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:28.755553+00:00","fact_type":"history","as_of":"1848","confidence":1.0}],"sources":[{"title":"Weeksville Heritage Center (Wikipedia)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeksville_Heritage_Center","source_type":"manual","allowed_use":"facts_with_citation","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:33.687114+00:00","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0"},{"title":"Mayor Mamdani Announces Completion of Weeksville Restoration (NYC.gov)","url":"https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/02/mayor-mamdani-announces-completion-of-weeksville-restoration--pr","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:32.878638+00:00","license":"unknown"},{"title":"Weeksville Heritage Center (NYC Landmarks Conservancy)","url":"https://nylandmarks.org/explore-ny/weeksville-heritage-center/","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:32.052702+00:00","license":"unknown"},{"title":"Tours - Weeksville Heritage Center","url":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/visit/tours/","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:30.419885+00:00","license":"unknown"},{"title":"Visit - Weeksville Heritage Center","url":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/visit/","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:29.578824+00:00","license":"unknown"},{"title":"Weeksville Heritage Center - Official Home Page","url":"https://www.weeksvillesociety.org","source_type":"official","allowed_use":"canonical_data","retrieved_at":"2026-06-19T23:08:28.755553+00:00","license":"unknown"}],"commercial_actions":[{"provider":"eventbrite","provider_label":"Eventbrite","kind":"event","url":"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-free-pleasure-histories-tickets-1988089116064?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true","title":null,"commercial_action":true,"not_for_citation":true,"rel":"sponsored nofollow noopener"}],"source_policy":{"booking_links_are_evidence":false,"denied_as_evidence":["google_places","google","yelp","tripadvisor"],"allowed_uses":["canonical_data","facts_with_citation","anecdote"]}}