It seems that the borders of this neighborhood are always in question.  In the course of working on my Gentrifying Brooklyn film, I can say I have heard just about every answer in the book.   Some people told me – in all earnestness – that Nostrand Avenue divides Prospect Heights from...

The Prospect Park Alliance and the City Parks Alliance invite you to a special film premiere: Wednesday, August 4 The Celebrate Brooklyn Stage at the Bandshell in Prospect Park (enter the Park at 9th Street and Prospect Park West) Movie screening at 8 p.m. Free general...

As some may know, the Crow Hill Community Association (CHCA) has been working diligently to gain landmark designation for the new Crow Hill section of Crown Heights (that is the section is new, but the buildings are old). Their efforts have paid off.   The word from our friends at CHCA (and as...

Those who follow the popular Brooklyn website, Brownstoner, know that one of the best neighborhood historians to grace the blog is a local resident, Suzanne Spellen, who writes under the pen name “Montrose Morris” (a reference to  a prolific Brooklyn architect).  Well we just found that that “Montrose”...

An interesting article appeared in today’s Daily News about a potential historical site in Crown Heights.  According to the article,  Clove Road – a tiny road bounded by Nostrand, New York Ave, Empire Boulevard, and Sullivan – served as an American outpost during the 1776 Battle...

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If you’ve been following these young ladies’ progress with us this whole time, then you will be excited to here that the girls from the Crown Heights Oral History Project are ready to debut their .  I had the pleasure of meeting with the girls a couple of months ago, and let me tell you,...

Stadium Status from Internets Celebrities on Vimeo. In October we ran a post on the Internets Celebrities attempts at crowd-sourcing their film Stadium Status.  Stadium Status is a documentary  that explores the rush of new sports stadiums in NYC.  Given that new stadiums are built every year...

Most of us here at NP were mere sparkles in our parents’ eyes when “Fernando-Mania” was sweeping the nation in 1981, and given that since Fernando Valenzuela’s auspicious with the Dodgers, baseball fans have fawned over other pitching phenoms such as Dwight “Dr. K”...

Recently, I had to do an interview all by myself. I was unsure about how this conversation would go, but I left all of my insecurity at the door and went into Eunice Oden’s house with confidence. Ms. Oden was born in North Carolina and moved to New York City at 19 years-old in the 1950s. She...