Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City
|
Getting Started
Index
NYC Neighborhoods
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
Bronx
Staten Island
NYC Icons
Chrysler Building
Flatiron Building
Empire State Building
Safe NYC
NYPD
FDNY
NYC Weather
NYC Climate
NYC Weather Forecast
Winter Season
Spring Season
Summer Season
Fall Season
NYC History & Politics
New York City History
Tammany Hall and Politics
New York City Politicians
New York City Personalities
Culture of Gotham City
Culture of the city
Cultural diversity
City in popular culture
|
Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. This neighborhood extends through much of Brooklyn Community Board 8 and 9. The main thoroughfare through this neighborhood is Eastern Parkway, which divides the north and south sides of this neighborhood. Crown Heights is bounded by Washington Avenue (west), Atlantic Avenue (north) and Ralph Avenue (east), Clarkson Avenue (south). The neighborhoods that border Crown Heights are: Prospect Heights (to the west); Prospect Lefferts Gardens (to the southwest), Wingate and Rugby (to the South), Brownsville (to the east); Bedford-Stuyvesant (to the north).
Demographics
The worldwide headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Jewish community, at 770 Eastern Parkway, is located in Crown Heights.
A large number of Blacks from the Caribbean coexists, uneasily at times, with Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights. In recent years, a considerable number of Latin American and Russian immigrants have also moved into the neighborhood.
More recently, Crown Heights has seen an upwardly mobile influx -- a racial mix of artists, professionals, students, and gays and lesbians. These new inhabitants are mostly middle-class professionals that are very different from previous residents.
Violence has erupted in this neighborhood on more than one occasion, including during the New York City blackout of 1977. However, the best-known series of events -- the Crown Heights Riot -- occurred in 1991.
Crown Heights is also known for its annual West Indian Carnival. Its main event is the West Indian Carnival Parade, also known as "The Labor Day Parade." The parade route goes along Eastern Parkway, from Utica Avenue to Grand Army Plaza. According to the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association, over 3.5 million people participate in the parade each year.
|
New York City Search
Quick NYC
|
|
|
How safe is New York City? Contrary to popular belief, the City consistantly ranks in the top ten safest large cities in the United States. The NYPD is the largest municipal police force in the world and has it's own Movie/TV Unit.
|
New York has a humid continental climate resulting from prevailing wind patterns that bring cool air from the interior of the North American continent. New York winters are typically cold with moderate snowfall. New York Weather Forecast
|
New York's two key demographic features are its density and diversity. The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel. It is also home to nearly a quarter of the nation's South Asians, and the largest African American community of any city in the country. Ethnic composition
|
New York Newspapers
|