Brooklyn was a largely African American section of Charlotte, North Carolina. It was home to many businesses, residences, and churches. The neighborhood was demolished for an urban renewal project in the 1960s [1] [2] and is now part of what is known as the Second Ward. [3] Tower at the Old Grace A. M. E. Zion Church

Located in Charlotte’s Second Ward, the Brooklyn neighborhood was a predominantly black community that thrived as a self-sustainable town within a town. With vibrant shops, schools and places of worship, Brooklyn was home to some of the black community’s families from all socioeconomic backgrounds.

Brooklyn Village is a 17 acres (6.9 ha) development in Uptown Charlotte that broke ground in Fall 2023. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] It is paying tribute to a former black neighborhood in the Second Ward of Uptown that was demolished in the 1960s as part of an urban renewal campaign.

Jul 18, 2023 · In its heyday, Brooklyn was a thriving Black business center; “an African American city-within-the-city, complete with its own downtown.”2 While the socio-economic level of residents spanned from shanty housing, like Blue Heaven, to the homes of Charlotte’s Black professionals, the community marked many “firsts” for Charlotte’s Black residents.

Apr 17, 2023 · Brooklyn was a predominantly African-American neighborhood that resided in what takes up most of Charlotte's Second Ward today. After facing demolition in the 1960s-1970s from the Urban Renewal Act, Brooklyn essentially ceased to exist.

Brooklyn was a largely African-American neighborhood which emerged in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina at the turn of the 20th century.

Dec 16, 2020 · Brooklyn was a neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, located in the Second Ward of the city. It was a majority black community, developing its own churches, schools, and culture separate from the rest of the city.

after its sister city in New York, "Brooklyn" conveyed the sense of a city within a city, one with an equally vibrant nightlife and community-spirit. The decline of this community began in the late 1930s when federal guidelines red-lined African American communities and the all-white Charlotte Planning Commission re-zoned Brooklyn in 1947 as an

Mar 18, 2016 · Much of this occurred in the 1960s and ’70s, as Charlotte embarked on an “urban renewal” plan that destroyed its largest black neighborhood – a community known as Brooklyn. The original aim of...

Jul 30, 2019 · Instead of a mixed-use complex that welcomes broadly diversified mixed-income residents (55% Workforce Housing; 25% Exclusively Market Rate Housing; 20% Transitional and Affordable Housing), Brooklyn Village is a 17-acre mixed-use …