Bedford

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Bedford is a sub-community within greater Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood a part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, centered approximately at the corner of modern-day Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue and stretching to the north from Calasson Ave in the west to Tompkins Ave. in the east.Its name is better known today as part of the larger community of Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Bedford, in pre-American Revolutionary War times, was the first major settlement to the east of the then-Village of Brooklyn on the Brooklyn & Jamaica Turnpike to Jamaica, Queens and the rest of Long Island. It formed a major crossroads with roads to Williamsburg to the north and Bedford Road to Flatbush to the south.

The advent of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in 1836 early established Bedford as a major railroad town as well and, in 1878, the building of a terminal and junction with the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway made Bedford an important gateway to Coney Island.