Yes, it seems we're addicted to The City Concealed series produced by Thirteen. The latest segment visits Brooklyn's Weeksville, one of the nation's earliest free African American communities. The Weeksville Heritage Center explains that "the area was named after free African American James [Weeks], who acquired property in the area in 1838, only eleven years after slavery ended in New York State." In 2005 restoration was completed at the Hunerfly Road Houses, the last remaining residence and symbols of the historic community.
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