Wallabout, Brooklyn

Wallabout is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that dates back to the 17th century.

The name Wallabout comes from the 17th century, when a group of Walloons, French-speaking Protestants from what is now Belgium, settled along the nearby bay.

They called it “Waal-bogt,” or “bend in the harbor.” It is a mixed use area with an array of old wood-frame buildings, public housing, brick townhouses and warehouses.

The Lefferts-Laidlaw House was built about 1840 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

The neighborhood's name is rarely used anymore, being split into Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Bedford Stuyvesant.