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Photograph of Weeksville Heritage Center
Photograph by Anonitect, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

1700 Bergen St.

Built in 1838. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.

From the record

“The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site on Buffalo Avenue between St. Marks Avenue and Bergen Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.”

Wikipedia article Weeksville Heritage Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 207 National Register listings published here for Kings County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1838.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1698, 1700, 1702, 1704, 1706, 1708 Bergen St., New York, 11213
  • When was it listed? December 1972
  • Category. building
  • Borough. Brooklyn
  • When was it built? 1838
  • National Register reference number. 72000853 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1889 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering 1700 Bergen St., surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering 1700 Bergen St., surveyed 1889

Fires near this property

2,751 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,751 fires within 5 miles of 1700 Bergen St. between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,336 acres in total. 156 started naturally. 190 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2029
Arson/incendiarism190
Natural156
Smoking115
Debris and open burning82
Misuse of fire by a minor73
Equipment and vehicle use64
Recreation and ceremony22
Fireworks7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance6

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresGateway National Recreation AreaFOUNTAIN1

Every fire recorded in Kings County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of 1700 Bergen St.: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
D Smith Steel/ Brooklyn, N.Y.IronUnknown
N L Industries/ Brooklyn. N.Y.LeadUnknown
Roosevelt Metal/ Brooklyn, N.Y.LeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Kings County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Parkway Theatre0.4 miles2010
Fulton Park Plaza0.4 miles2026
Immanuel Congregational Church0.6 miles2006
Stuyvesant Heights Historic District0.7 miles1975
Stuyvesant Heights Historic District (Boundary Increase)0.8 miles1996
Chevra Torah Anshei Radishkowitz0.8 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000853 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kings CountyAll 207 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.