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Crown Heights

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Teenage Idiots Play Subway Chicken (VIDEO)

    Some young people probably won't make it to adulthood because of the stupid, stupid choices they make, as evidenced by this now viral video of teenagers in Crown Heights.

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Q&A: Southpaw Co-Owner Matt Roff Talks About The Venue's Closing

    Yesterday the news that the Park Slope club Southpaw would be turning into an educational center for children broke, and we got comment from co-owner Matt Roff—whose business interests also include Williamsburg's Public Assembly, Greenpoint's No Name Bar, and Crown Heights' Franklin Park— ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    This Week In The Voice: Lana Del Rey, Japanese Sound Systems, The Lijadu Sisters, And Wheelchair Sports Camp

    The Lijadu Sisters.​In this week's Village Voice, out now: Camille Dodero gets the cover with her profile of Kalyn Heffernan, a 24-year-old with the brittle-bone disability osteogenesis imperfecta and leader of the hip-hop outfit Wheelchair Sports Camp; Marlon Bishop gets down with the Japanes ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 9, 2011

    Elysian Fields

    The Lijadu Sisters.​In this week's Village Voice, out now: Camille Dodero gets the cover with her profile of Kalyn Heffernan, a 24-year-old with the brittle-bone disability osteogenesis imperfecta and leader of the hip-hop outfit Wheelchair Sports Camp; Marlon Bishop gets down with the Japanes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Darell Smith, 17, Stabbed to Death in Crown Heights; Teen Suspect ID'ed

    Orpheus Nelson, wanted in connection with death​Cops are looking for Crown Heights teen Orpheus Nelson in connection with the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Darell Smith in Crown Heights late Tuesday night. Smith, who lived in Bed-Stuy, was found shortly before 11 p.m. at 1785 Pacific Avenue, with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Scruffy Bank Robber Sought in Crown Heights Stickup

    Bank robbery suspect​Cops are looking for a scruffy bank robber who held up the Apple Bank at 318 Albany Avenue, near Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, around noon Tuesday, February 1. The guy walked up to a teller at 12:14 p.m., displaying a silver handgun and handing over a note deman ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    AOL Dubs Bedford Avenue "Safest NYC Neighborhood"

    ​AOL's WalletPop site has revealed the safest neighborhoods in America's major cities based on neighborhood and FBI crime data. Guess what!? Bedford Avenue has ranked as one of those cozy locales, where your chance of becoming the victim to a crime is but 1 in 500 each year.

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Are Black Jews in New York Really All That Surprising?

    ​In some parts, actually: yeah. Take Crown Heights, for example, where the African-American and Orthodox Jewish communities rioted against each other only less than two decades ago. The New York Times pointed out the seemingly surprising crossover in Crown Heights specifically as a Black Ortho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Murders Up 17 Percent, NYPD Crime Stats Show

    ​Periodically, we here at Runnin Scared take a look at the city's crime statistics. Well, almost three quarters of the way through the year, crime citywide is at about the same level as it was this time last year. But murders are up 17 percent. And, in all, six of the seven major crime categor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    How Does Last Night's Riot at South Street Seaport Over Drake Show Rank Among NYC Riots?

    ​So, last night, the typically quiet and touristy South Street Seaport basically went insane when the gimp kid from Degrassi showed up to play a free show. There was a riot, mace was fired, some chairs got thrown, and the show was cancelled. It's the first riot New York City's had in a while! ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Trinidadian Potato Pie at R&A West Indian Products

    A delicious, vegetarian cheap eat​"Best Potato Pie in Brooklyn" proclaimed a colorful hand-written sign outside the storefront on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights.

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Ain't No Bodega Like a Brooklyn Bodega 'Cause Brooklyn Bodegas Might Sell You a Blunt, SON. Also, Jerk Chicken.

    ​The beautiful thing about New York is that you never have to go too far to find a corner deli or bodega with whatever you need in it: ice cream, laundry detergent, smokes, small-batch beer, sandwiches, cooking supplies, feral cats waiting to be adopted, etc. Which is why today we mourn the si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2010

    Deborah Blount, 51, Slain in Her Crown Heights Apartment

    View Larger Map DATE: Friday, March 12, 2010, 2 p.m. LOCATION: 1518 Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Deborah Blount, 51, was found dead in her apartment at the above address. While the cause of her death has not been determined, her paramour John Brandon, 51, has been arrested on murder c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Man Shot Dead in Crown Heights, Female Bystander Wounded

    View Larger Map Date: Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 at approximately 6:49 p.m. Location: In front of 1610 St. Johns Place, Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Two people were shot outside the above address yesterday evening in Crown Heights. One victim, 21, had been shot repeatedly in the chest. He was taken to Ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Have You Seen... These Alleged Crown Heights Muggers

    These five guys are suspected of attempted robbery. Cops say they mugged a 17-year-old girl in an attempt to snatch her cell phone at 5 p.m. Monday, January 18, on a sidewalk in front of 357 Troy Avenue, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Cops say the guys approached her, demanded her cell and pushed h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    Say Goodbye to 2009: Looking Back at the Year in Concerts

    Last year's Stupid Party in Crown Heights. All photos by Rebecca Smeyne.​We're closing up shop early today, and getting a head start on the New Year by doing snow angels outside for a while. Last minute guidance on your own New Year's Eve plans can be found here and here. In the meantime, plea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Jewish Patrol Assault Trial "Close to Farce"; Messiah to Be Called as Witness

    ​The Flatbush Shomrim -- a safety patrol of observant Jews -- has been on fire lately. Last week they caught a graffiti artist and a car-breaker, and yesterday they took down a burglar. The Crown Heights Shomrim, meanwhile, has been much busier in court, with six of its members charged with be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Rubashkin Trial Opens; Kosher King Accused of Immigration Fraud

    The much-anticipated trial of Sholom Rubashkin -- former CEO of the country's largest kosher meat processing plant and a member of a powerful Crown Heights Lubavitch family -- began in at a federal court in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Wednesday, with a slaughterhouse worker testifying that she fak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    6th Ave Trains OK Now; Lex Ave Trains Bollocksed

    ​The Sixth Avenue line delays earlier reported by MTA have been resolved, but there's trouble on the tracks for the Lexington Avenue line: 4 service is suspended in both directions between 149th Street-Grand Concourse and Crown Heights-Utica Avenue, and there are delays on all 4,5, and 6 train ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Posts of the Week

    It's a dreary Friday afternoon, which means it's time to liven things up a bit with a rundown of this week's greatest hits:Our 10 Best Thai Restaurants: Take that, L.A.! Ice cream vendors talked about their plans for the winter. In a shocking Battle of the Dishes upset, Babycakes' doughnuts prevaile ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Butt-Slapper Terrorizes Subway, Tish James Speaks Out

    NY1 says there's a serial butt-slapper riding the trains. Cops say they've received about a dozen reports of the man slapping butts in and around Crown Heights. Councilmember Tish James denounces the assailant as a "lowlife" and a "coward." He is thought to be in his mid-20s, between 5' 10" and 6' a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Beaten in Court, Rubashkins Battle to Keep Crown Heights Religious Leadership

    Just when you think things in Crown Heights couldn't get any stranger, they do. Last December, we chronicled the tale of the powerful Rubashkin clan -- the Crown Heights Lubavitch family that practically ran the kosher meat-processing business in America, until they were brought down by a huge immi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Posts of the Week

    It's that time again! Welcome to your Friday afternoon round-up of some of our favorite posts of the week. Maybe we'll see you at the BBQ party this weekend. For now, let's relive the glory, shall we? We got excited about the advent of strawberry season, and got even more excited when a commenter s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    New York Hotel Rates Fall 26%; Steepest Drop in U.S.

    We keep hearing that rents are going down -- and so they are, on paper, but in reality we still live in the Age of the $1350 Upper East Side Studio. We sometimes wonder if it would be cheaper to live in a hotel room. Well, guess what? Hospitality analysts Noble Investment Group say New York has had ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2009

    Housing Collapse Makes Real Estate More Affordable to Millionaires

    Brownstoner celebrates the dip in local real estate prices caused by our housing price collapse. The Park Slope brownstone that was going for $2,990,000 six months ago? Slashed to $2.8 million! And there's a building in Crown Heights that you can get for (just barely) under a million. We hope wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Happy Hanukkah, Too!

    Brownstoner celebrates the dip in local real estate prices caused by our housing price collapse. The Park Slope brownstone that was going for $2,990,000 six months ago? Slashed to $2.8 million! And there's a building in Crown Heights that you can get for (just barely) under a million. We hope wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Sky Watch Returns to Dumbo; Where's Ours?

    Brownstoner celebrates the dip in local real estate prices caused by our housing price collapse. The Park Slope brownstone that was going for $2,990,000 six months ago? Slashed to $2.8 million! And there's a building in Crown Heights that you can get for (just barely) under a million. We hope wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    The Gods Must Be Crazy

    Brownstoner celebrates the dip in local real estate prices caused by our housing price collapse. The Park Slope brownstone that was going for $2,990,000 six months ago? Slashed to $2.8 million! And there's a building in Crown Heights that you can get for (just barely) under a million. We hope wor ... More >>

  • News

    December 3, 2008

    The Fall of the House of Rubashkin

    As the nation's largest kosher empire implodes, Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews begin to break ranks

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    Chicken Slaughter on Kingston Avenue: Is Crown Heights Kapporos Cruel?

    As the nation's largest kosher empire implodes, Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews begin to break ranks

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2008

    Midnight Summ.: Violence and Indian-American Politics

    As the nation's largest kosher empire implodes, Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews begin to break ranks

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2008

    W. Indian American Day Parade Hot, Loud, Fun

    As the nation's largest kosher empire implodes, Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews begin to break ranks

  • News

    August 27, 2008

    The Crown Heights Lubavitchers

    Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions

  • NYC Life

    February 1, 2005

    Before Shabbos

    Twenty-four years in Crown Heights—lady, will you turn off our lights?

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    Rebel Yells

    Crown Heights—and depths

  • News

    January 27, 2004

    Machine Age

    Crown Heights—and depths

  • Dining

    May 27, 2003

    Doubles or Nothing

    Saturday Afternoon on Nostrand Avenue

  • NYC Life

    December 17, 2002

    Close-Up on Crown Heights

    Saturday Afternoon on Nostrand Avenue

  • Dining

    July 2, 2002

    The Birds

    Saturday Afternoon on Nostrand Avenue

  • News

    February 12, 2002

    A Cancer Grows in Brooklyn

    High Prostate Cancer Rates in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights

  • News

    January 15, 2002

    Faded Rage

    As a Divided Community Begins to Forget, a Court Reopens Old Wounds in Crown Heights

  • News

    January 15, 2002

    The Crown Heights Quiets

    The Black Community: Powder Keg or Powder Puff?

  • Specials

    June 5, 2001

    Letters

    The Black Community: Powder Keg or Powder Puff?

  • News

    May 22, 2001

    Who’s Afraid of Carl Thomas?

    A Black-Jewish Alliance Stirs Up Racial Fears in Battle for Crown Heights Seat

  • Specials

    September 7, 1999

    Letters

    A Black-Jewish Alliance Stirs Up Racial Fears in Battle for Crown Heights Seat

  • NYC Life

    August 31, 1999

    One-bedroom apartment with terrace in 1960s Mitchell-Lama regulated high-rise

    A Black-Jewish Alliance Stirs Up Racial Fears in Battle for Crown Heights Seat

  • News

    August 24, 1999

    Hillary 'Banned' In Crown Heights

    The First Lady's embrace of Former Mayor David Dinkins ignites an orthodox Jewish backlash

  • News

    August 17, 1999

    Hillary's Crown Heights Problem

    If Rudy Giuliani plays the race card, he most likely will try to attack Former Mayor David Dinkins's legacy in one of the city's ethnic hotbeds

  • Dining

    April 13, 1999

    Cuckoo for Cou-Cou

    If Rudy Giuliani plays the race card, he most likely will try to attack Former Mayor David Dinkins's legacy in one of the city's ethnic hotbeds

  • News

    October 6, 1998

    Holy Daze

    Rebecca Segall investigates the problems of young Lubavitcher Hasidim in a world without the Rebbe

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