Bedford-Stuyvesant

Bedford-Stuyvesant (aka Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York.

Post-war problems

A series of problems led to a long decline in the neighborhood. Some of the new residents who had been rural workers had difficulty finding reasonably paid work in the urban New York economy. The city itself was in a period of steady decline, exacerbated by abandonment of parts of the transportation network, decline of public facilities and services, inability to deal with increasing crime, difficulties in municipal government and movement of significant parts of its population to suburban areas.

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