Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, England.
Stuyvesant is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 2,027 at the 2010 census. The town is in the northwest corner of Columbia County. U.S. Route 9 crosses the southeast corner of the town.
Lido Beach is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 2,897 at the 2010 census.
North Bay Shore is an unincorporated neighborhood on Long Island in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The area is a suburb of New York City. The hamlet of North Bay Shore is within the northern part of the CDP of Bay Shore, New York. The census-designated place (CDP) named North Bay Shore is north of, and adjacent to, the hamlet named North Bay Shore. The CDP of North Bay Shore contains the hamlet of Pine Aire and part of the hamlet of Brentwood. The population of the North Bay Shore CDP was 18,944 at the time of the 2010 census.
Katonah is one of three hamlets and census-designated places (CDP) within the town of Bedford, Westchester County, in the U.S. state of New York, specifically northern Westchester. The Katonah CDP had a population of 1,679 at the 2010 census.
Bedford–Stuyvesant is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 3, though the eastern part of the neighborhood is located in Brooklyn Community Board 8. The neighborhood is patrolled by the NYPD's 79th and 81st precincts. In the City Council, the district is represented by Robert Cornegy of the 36th Council District.
Brooklyn Community Board 3 is a New York City community board that encompasses the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Stuyvesant Heights and Ocean Hill. It is delimited by Classon Avenue on the west, Flushing Avenue and Broadway on the north, and Saratoga Avenue on the east, as well as by Atlantic Avenue on the south.
Ocean Hill is a subsection of Bedford-Stuyvesant in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 16 and was founded in 1890. The ZIP code for the neighborhood is 11233. Ocean Hill's boundaries start from Broadway (Bushwick) in the north, Ralph Avenue (Bedford-Stuyvesant) to the west, East New York Avenue in the south, and Van Sinderen Avenue to the east.
A community development corporation (CDC) is a not-for-profit organization incorporated to provide programs, offer services and engage in other activities that promote and support community development. CDCs usually serve a geographic location such as a neighborhood or a town. They often focus on serving lower-income residents or struggling neighborhoods. They can be involved in a variety of activities including economic development, education, community organizing and real estate development. These organizations are often associated with the development of affordable housing.
Stuyvesant Square is the name of both a park and its surrounding neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park is located between 15th Street, 17th Street, Rutherford Place, and Nathan D. Perlman Place. Second Avenue divides the park into two halves, east and west, and each half is surrounded by the original cast-iron fence.
The Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps (BSVAC) is America's first minority volunteer ambulance corps, founded in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York in 1988 by James Robinson. BSVAC- was established organically in response to the lack of citywide first aid services coming to the area. Although the majority of all homicides in New York City occur within the confines of this neighborhood, BSVAC remains the dominant ambulance service.
Bedford Avenue is the longest street in Brooklyn, New York City, stretching 10.2 miles (16.4 km) and 132 blocks from Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint south to Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, and passing through the neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Midwood, Marine Park, and Sheepshead Bay.
Westchester County, New York, has 6 cities, 19 towns and 23 villages.
The Billie Holiday Theatre is as 218 seat theatre located in the New York neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It opened in May 1972, It was founded by the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
The Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation is a community development corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, and the first ever to be established in the United States.
Black Americans constitute one of the longer-running ethnic presences in New York City. The majority of the Black American population largely claims descent from West and Central Africa by way of importation to the American South via the Atlantic slave trade, with smaller portions of the population claiming Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin American, and more recent Sub-Saharan African nations.
