The Gentrification of a "Plague-Stricken Spot"

An 1833 Quarantine on Staten Island.

Writing for BKLYNR, a subscription-based indie site, Bay Ridge journalist Henry Stewart revisits the 19th century Yellow Fever epidemic that led to Bay Ridge's emergence as the "Greenwich Village of Brooklyn."



One of the most feared diseases of the 18th and 19th centuries, Yellow Fever is believed to have followed the slave trade out of Africa, killing