Brooklyn (Charlotte, North Carolina)

It developed commerce, was home to fine residences of Charlotte's prosperous and prominent African Americans as well as shanties.

The Brooklyn area also had a YMCA, a library, the A.M.E. Zion Publishing House,[3] numerous churches, and the Queen City Drug Store.

The area was razed in the 1960s and replaced by a government and commercial building project that forced out its residents.

Rose Leary Love wrote the memoir Plum Thickets and Field Daisies about growing up in Brooklyn.

[7][2] That same year, it was announced of a new mixed-use development, called Brooklyn Village, be built in Second Ward; the name pays homage to the former neighborhood.