Crown Heights

Growth Spurt and Growing Pains in Crown Heights

Nick Juravich | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Crown Heights Community, Crown Heights Community Garden, Crown Heights, Crown Heights Gentrification, Crow Hill Community Garden, Art Not Arrests, Crown Heights Mural, New York News

Last Tuesday Crown Heights, residents said said goodbye to the Crow Hill Community Garden. While losing the garden doesn't cripple community-building efforts, it does eliminate an important public space for dialogue and exchange.

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Mind the Gap in Crown Heights

Radio Rookies | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Crown Heights Riots, Crown Heights, Hive-Learning-Network, Radio Rookies, Crown Heights Brooklyn, High School for Global Citizenship, Video, Teen News

We all attend the High School for Global Citizenship in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Around the school, there are different types of people -- it's like a mini-world in one neighborhood.

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DA's Office Knew About Woman's Rape Recantation, Jailed Men Anyway

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Brooklyn Da, Crown Heights, Jamali Brockett, Video, Rape, Jawari Grockett, Ny News, Sex Trafficking, New York News, Damien Crooks, Darrell Dula, New York News

The Brooklyn DA's office sat on a rape recantation for nearly a year while two men accused of the crime sat behind bars, documents reveal. Last Jun...

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WATCH: Teens Play Chicken With Subway Train

Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Crown Heights, Train Surfing, New York News, Teens Jumps Onto Subway Tracks, New York City Subway, Ny News, Teenagers, Video, New York News

Sure, the teens in this video don't get hit, but jumping onto the train tracks in the New York City subway is always a bad idea New York. Always. T...

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The Education I Never Had, And Why No One Is Doing A Thing About It

Chaim Levin | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Jewish Education, Chabad, Crown Heights, Education, Judaism, Lubavitcher Rebbe, Religious Education, Education Reform, Orthodox Judaism, Religion News

At the age of 17, I had a formal education more comparable to a third grader. I lacked the opportunity to function as an informed, educated young adult.

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National Education Day And The Education I Never Had

Chaim Levin | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Lubavitcher Rebbe, Religion, Education, Crown Heights, Chabad, Orthodox Judaism, Judaism, Education Reform, Religion News

Yesterday was proclaimed National Education and Sharing Day in tribute to the late Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Menachem Schneerson's birthday. It baffles me that the Chabad movement has inspired such an observance.

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Unorthodox: The Hasidic Campaign Against Deborah Feldman -- and Me

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Crown Heights, Deborah Feldman, Brooklyn, Hasids, Satman, Books News

You do not want the Satmars on your case. I learned this the hard way the other week, when I reviewed Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasi...

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Unorthodox? Try This: A Young Hasidic Wife Breaks With Her Tradition, Writes Tell-All Book

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: The View, Hasidic Jews, Crown Heights, Deborah Feldman, Satmars, Video, Jews, Hasidic Jew, Satmar, Judaism, Sex, Chastity, Female Sexuality, Sexuality, Books News

"I had to believe everything I was taught, if only to survive," she writes. And what was she taught? In the slow-track classes for girls, nothing very academic, for a girl could realistically have no higher destiny than marriage at 17 and motherhood a year later.

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WATCH: Oprah: 'I Was More Hasidic Jew Than I Thought'

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Oprah and Judaism, Crown Heights, Video, Oprah Winfrey, Chabad, Oprah Winfrey Brooklyn, Oprah's Next Chapter, Borough Park, Oprah Winfrey Network, Religion News

After visiting Hasidic communities in Brooklyn, N.Y., for a two-part episode on "Oprah's Next Chapter," Oprah Winfrey sat down for an exclusive interv...

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WATCH: An Art Installation Made Of Handcuffs

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: New York Around Town, NY Around Town, Zip-Tie Handcuffs, Art Installation, Crown Heights, Crow Hill Community Garden, Art Not Arrests, New York News

A rash of violence this past Labor Day weekend in New York (67 shot, 13 killed in three days) culminated in bloody shootout at Franklin Avenue and Par...

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Who Wears the Crown? Multiple Legacies of Change and Continuity in Crown Heights

Nick Juravich | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Crown Heights Neighborhood, Crown Heights Gentrification, Crown Heights Riots, Crown Heights, Ny Neighborhoods, Crown Heights Brooklyn, Procro, New York News

Change will continue in Crown Heights in 2012, and anyone who wants to affect that process will have to understand it in all its complexity first.

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FDNY Firefighters Severely Burned In Crown Heights Fire

Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Crown Heights, New York City Fire, Firefighters, Ny News, Brownstone Fire, Brooklyn Fire, Fdny, Video, New York News

A fire set ablaze a Crown Heights brownstone on Monday morning, leaving five firefighters injured, including one firefighter with severe burns to over...

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Astoria Characters: The Sister to the World's Women

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 02.05.2012

Maureen McGowan is the director of Handcrafting Justice, a Sisters of Good Shepherd project that sells handmade goods made by impoverished women in the developing world. This is no mom-and-pop charity.

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Crime Spree Leaves Teen Fatally Shot In The East Village, Three Stabbed, 16 Others Shot

Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Crown Heights, New York Crime, Shootings, East Village, Keith Salgado, Leroy Webster, New York Violence, New York News

A 17-year old high school senior was shot to death on Avenue C and 12th Street in the East Village at 1:50AM Sunday morning. Keith Salgado was sho...

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67 People Were Shot In NYC This Weekend [UPDATE]

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Video, Crown Heights, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Nypd, New York Crime, Ny News, West Indian Day Parade, New York News, Labor Day Weekend, New York News

A violent Labor Day weekend in New York City, in which a total of 48 67 people were shot, [UPDATE: The NYPD now confirms 67 people were shot in violen...

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Time for the Jewish Community to End the Sharpton Wars

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Rev. Al Sharpton, Crown Heights, Al Sharpton, Politics News

There can be no doubt that many of Al Sharpton's actions at the beginning of his career were dishonorable and incendiary. But there can likewise be little doubt that he has shown immense personal and professional growth over the past few years.

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My Message To The Churches, Mosques And Synagogues: Do Your Job!

Russell Simmons | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Crown Heights Violence Anniversary, Black-Jewish Relations, Crown Heights, Al Sharpton, Rabbi Marc Schneier, Russell Simmons, Crown Heights Violence, 1991 Crown Heights Riots, Crown Heights Riots, Religious Tolerance, Crown Heights Violence Al Sharpton, Religion News

The haters will always hate. It is the solemn and fundamental obligation of ALL religious institutions and leaders to fight relentlessly for understanding and reconciliation.

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WATCH: 20 Years After Violence, Crown Heights Residents Reflect

Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Crown Heights Violence Anniversary, Black-Jewish Relations, Crown Heights Pogrom, Crown Heights, Video, The Jewish Daily Forward, Crown Heights Riots, The Forward Crown Heights, Religious Tolerance, Crown Heights Brooklyn, Religion News

On Aug. 19, 1991, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old Guyanese boy, was struck by the motorcade of the Lubavitcher...

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Re-framing The Racial And Religious Narratives In Crown Heights

Henry Goldschmidt | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Black-Jewish Relations, Crown Heights Pogrom, Crown Heights, Ari Goldstein Crown Heights Op-Ed, Religious Tolerance, Crown Heights Violence, Crown Heights Riots, Crown Heights Community Mediation, Crown Heights Race Riot, Crown Heights 1991, Religion News

If New Yorkers and others are ever going to get past the violence of August 1991, we all need to recognize that our perceptions of this violence are only that

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Brooklyn Race Riots Approaching 20th Anniversary

Stuy, NY Patch | C. Zawadi Morris Email the Author | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Black-Jewish Relations, Crown Heights, Jewish-Black-Relations, Crown-Heights-Hasidic-Jews, 1991 Crown Heights Riots, Crown Heights Riots, Religious Tolerance, Brooklyn Race Riots, Crown Heights Brooklyn, Religion News

“When everyone else was leaving the neighborhood, we stayed,” said Rabbi Eli Cohen, executive director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Counc...

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WATCH: Two Leiby Kletzky Tributes In Brooklyn

Posted 09.24.2011

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Two Brooklyn communities this week held tributes for Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year old Brooklyn boy who was kidnapped and brutally murdered earlier this m...

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No Pro-Cro! Assemblyman Cheers Realtor For Correcting Boundary

Bed-Stuy, NY Patch | Amy Sara Clark | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Hakeem Jeffries, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, NY Real Estate, Corcoran Group, New York Real Estate, Pamela Liebman, Pro-Cro, New York News

An area pol has won a major victory in his personal "Pro-Cro" war. Ever since it came out that real estate agents have been calling the swath betwe...

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Can One Brooklyn Democrat Stop 'Crown Heights' From Becoming 'ProCro'?

Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Washington Heights, Ny News, Crown Heights, Hakeem Jeffries, New York Real Estate, NY Real Estate, New York State Assembly, Hudson Heights, East Williamsburg, Prospect Heights, Bushwick, New York News, Pro-Cro, New York News

Naming New York neighborhoods is a traditional free-for-all and it's no secret that real-estate brokers shamelessly rebrand areas to make them more at...

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WATCH: A Wedding Planner For Needy Families

Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Hasidic Wedding, Crown Heights Hasidic Jews, Crown Heights, Hasidic Jews Wedding, Devorah Benjamin Weddings, Devorah Benjamin, Crown Heights Brooklyn, Hasidic Jews, Ny Impact, New York News

Devorah Benjamin said she's planned or help finance around 4,000 weddings. In the Hasidic section of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Benjamin said she's a ...

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CeaseFire: Success Beyond Chicago

Tio Hardiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Violence, Harm Reduction, Gangs, Chicago, Gang Violence, Crown Heights, Ceasefire Illinois, Chicago Impact, Chicago News

Shootings and killings plague too many of our nation's neighborhoods. But the good news is that CeaseFire is moving to cities across the nation.

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