[3] Many African Americans saw land acquisition as their opportunity to gain economic and political freedom by building their own communities.

[1] A 1906 article in the New York Age recalling the earlier period noted that James Weeks "owned a handsome dwelling at Schenectady and Atlantic Avenues."

[6] Weeksville had one of the first African-American newspapers, the Freedman's Torchlight, and in the 1860s became the national headquarters of the African Civilization Society and the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum.

After the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge and as New York City grew and expanded, Weeksville gradually became part of Crown Heights, and memory of the village was largely forgotten.

[8] The search for Historic Weeksville began in 1968 in a Pratt Institute workshop on Brooklyn and New York City neighborhoods led by historian James Hurley.

[9] Weeksville is currently a working-class neighborhood with African-American and Hispanic residents as well as Caribbean immigrants from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada, among others.