SOMETIMES, WE CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND history from above. That, anyway, seemed to be the outlook of historian James Hurley and pilot Joseph Hays when, in 1968, they flew a plane over Brooklyn. They were looking for the remnants of a village founded 130 years earlier, the free Black community of Weeksville.
Read more at Atlas Obscura. Featured image: A map of Weeksville and surrounding neighborhoods in what is now Brooklyn, 1869. Public Domain.
Reina Gattuso 