CB8 — which represents North Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and Weeksville — passed a resolution in 2015 requesting a Department of City Planning study about rezoning the district.

Crown Heights is one of these communities, if you're familiar with it back in those days, is that there were Jews, there were Caribbeans, there were blacks—American—and basically everybody ...

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — The Crown Heights riots that pitted Black residents against Orthodox Jewish residents thirty years ago this week may seem like a distant memory, but there’s still one ...

Crown Heights community mourns deli worker shot to death, as police release photo of gunman By Christina Fan, Lisa Rozner Updated on: February 27, 2024 / 7:51 PM EST / CBS New York ...

Crown Heights today is not defined by racial tensions between blacks and Hasidic Jews. Today it is seen as the ground zero of gentrification, which is bringing into the area a steady influx of ...

Crown Heights — recently in the news because of violent anti-Semitic attacks — is home to followers of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. They have lived in the neighborhood since the early 1940s.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- It's now known as Crown Heights, Brooklyn, but more than 180 years ago Weeksville was a thriving community of free black people, one of America's first.

March 5, 2019 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle Marvelous mansions line Doctor's Row, aka President Street in Crown Heights South. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan Share this: ...

An affordable housing lottery has launched for 18 apartments in the under-construction Grand Pacific complex on the corner of Pacific Street and Grand Avenue in Crown Heights. The eight-story, 69-unit ...