5 things you never knew—but should—about Bed-Stuy's Stuyvesant Heights

… StreetEasy … 1 The name isnt brokerese … While skeptical Brooklynites are correct to sideeye madeup neighborhood … about until the late 1890s as a combination of two adjacent neighborhoods Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights Indeed BedStuy … wanted to show offthey had money and wanted to be able to live in a place that sounded like Brooklyn Heights  That …

By Virginia K. Smith |September 1, 2015 - 8:59AM