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Francis Lewis Playground

Francis Lewis Blvd., 201 St. bet. 42 Ave. and Station Rd.

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This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

What was here before?

The area now known as Bedford-Stuyvesant was originally inhabited by the Canarsie. In the 1630s and 1640s, the Dutch West India Company colonized the area, naming it Bedford. It began as a farming village populated by Dutch families and enslaved Africans. By 1790, over a quarter of Bedford's residents were of African descent. 

 

Stuyvesant Heights was named for the last Dutch Director General of New Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672). Stuyvesant granted the land patents for this land in 1664.

 

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