A Brooklyn historic district was tripled in size yesterday to protect one of the nation’s largest Caribbean-American neighborhoods from overzealous developers.
The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission extended the Bedford-Stuyvesant/Stuyvesant Heights Historic District to include another 825 buildings, most of which were constructed in the late 19th century.
The region is now bounded west by Tompkins Avenue, north by Macon and Halsey streets, east by Malcolm X Boulevard and south by Fulton Street.
The district, which previously consisted of 430 buildings, now totals 1,255 buildings.
The additions include wood-framed row houses and some place of worship, such as the stone-faced Bethany Baptist Church on Decatur Street.
“The historic-district extension speaks not only to Bedford-Stuyvesant’s rich architectural diversity but also to its extraordinary social and cultural diversity and deserves to be protected for present and future generations,” said commission Chairman Robert Tierney.