Ocean Hill, Brooklyn

By the late 1960s Ocean Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant proper together formed the largest African American community in the United States.

In response to complaints from parents in poor minority neighborhoods that schools were failing their students, the Ford Foundation helped fund an experimental program in the district that gave control to local educators and families.

As the United Federation of Teachers protested the transfers, the two sides traded harsh accusations of racism and anti-Semitism.

An increasing number of people of various ethnicities are moving into the area due to slightly lower rent prices in Brownsville[5] and eastern Crown Heights.

[7] There are attempts to overhaul the area to resemble Fort Greene-Clinton Hill due to the low rents and massive retail space.

Due to gentrification, many real estate developers and the community board use the name Bedford-Stuyvesant/Ocean Hill or just Bedford-Stuyvesant, to avoid the neighborhood being confused with neighboring Brownsville to the southeast.

[10] Broadway Junction is split roughly in half by the Atlantic Avenue/LIRR viaduct, with few connections between the two parts of the neighborhood.

This disconnect, combined with small blocks and relatively underused streets, parcels, and public spaces, has led to the subsection's characterization as a blighted area, and as such, it is largely ignored by neighboring communities.

[10] Broadway Junction was originally known as Jamaica Pass, a name that became famous in 1776 as the route the British Army marched from southern Kings County to attack Brooklyn during the Battle of Long Island.