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Crown Heights Oral History Project: A Girl Who Grew Up With Her Neighborhood
Posted by Crown Heights Oral History Project - Treverlyn Dehaarte, Monica Parfait, Floyya Richardson, Alex Kelly, Quanaisha Phillips in Local History on 05 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Jannel is the youngest of our storytellers. She has been living in Crown Heights for sixteen years and she is sixteen-years-old. She loves the neighborhood and says, “I feel like the neighborhood is growing up with me.”
Jannel lives in one of the apartment buildings near where Ebbets...
Nostrand Park Round Up
Posted by Abeni G. in Art/Culture, Business, Crown Heights 360, Local History, Real Estate, Uncategorized on 04 30th, 2010 | No Comments
De La Soul To Headline 2010 Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival – Tickets Go On sale May 3rd [Brooklyn Bodega]
Will Crown Heights look Like park Slope In 5, 10, 20 Years? – Video [NP]
Nelson George’s Brooklyn Atlas – Video [NP]
Crown Heights Author Zetta Elliot shares Her Story [NP]
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Crown Heights Oral History Project: Ms. Rosella’s House
Posted by Crown Heights Oral History Project - Treverlyn Dehaarte, Monica Parfait, Floyya Richardson, Alex Kelly, Quanaisha Phillips in Crown Heights 360, Local History on 04 26th, 2010 | No Comments
…On Monday April 19th, we went over to Rosella LaFontaine’s house on Park Place to interview her. She lives in a huge house. The house is so beautiful. She has been living in Crown Heights and the house for 60 years. She was the first person we have interviewed that has been living in Crown...
Crown Heights Oral History Project – Crown Heights History From A Long Time Ago
Posted by Crown Heights Oral History Project - Treverlyn Dehaarte, Monica Parfait, Floyya Richardson, Alex Kelly, Quanaisha Phillips in Local History on 04 19th, 2010 | No Comments
Wilhelmena tells us about her book
…I was in charge of the interview that Treverlyn and I did, but Treverlyn was a big help when I couldn’t think of a question to ask next. There is nothing like a little team work. Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly talked about her childhood and her experience in...
What Will Crown Heights Look Like in 30 Years?
If the saying is true that, “Change is inevitable”, how do you think Crown Heights will change and look like in 5 years? 10 years? 30 years?
40 years ago Hal Asby directed the film The Landlord, shot in Brooklyn. The film centers around a young, wealthy, white suburbanite who buys...
Zetta Elliott Tells Us Her Stories
Posted by Crown Heights Oral History Project - Treverlyn Dehaarte, Monica Parfait, Floyya Richardson, Alex Kelly, Quanaisha Phillips in Local History on 04 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Zetta Elliot Tells Us About Her Books
On Wednesday March 24th, we met with Zetta Elliott. She is (so far) the youngest person we have interviewed. Zetta was born in Canada and first came to the United States when she was a little girl. She fell in love with Eastern Parkway when she first visited. She...
Crown Heights Oral History Project – Ms. Bernadine’s Advice
Posted by Crown Heights Oral History Project - Treverlyn Dehaarte, Monica Parfait, Floyya Richardson, Alex Kelly, Quanaisha Phillips in Local History, Uncategorized on 04 9th, 2010 | No Comments
Ms. Bernadine and Our Crew
On March 13th, my girl Floyya and I interviewed two people in one day. We rocked the conversations.
The second woman we interviewed was Melina Bernadine. She answered questions about the neighborhood that I didn’t even know I had to begin with. She also gave us some interesting...
Starlite Stories this Weekend
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Starlite Stories: WE NEED YOURS
A weekend dedicated to recording the history of the Starlite, Crown Heights, and the community as told by you- the patrons, friends, and family of the Starlite Lounge.
This event is crucial step in establishing cultural landmark status. The Starlite Lounge...
Crown Heights Oral History Project’s First Interview: Evangeline Porter
Posted by Crown Heights Oral History Project - Treverlyn Dehaarte, Monica Parfait, Floyya Richardson, Alex Kelly, Quanaisha Phillips in Crown Heights 360, Local History on 03 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment
Folks – here is the latest update from the young ladies with the Crown Heights Oral History Project:
Last week we recorded our first interview! Ms. Evangeline Porter.
Ms. Porter made a comparison for us, showing us what Crown Heights has now that it didn’t have then – things like drugs...
Warehouse Row
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All photos: Jennifer Macchiarelli
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ostrand Park serves as a virtual town square for Crown Heights, and to offset the dearth of available resources, Crown Heights is a complex neighborhood. It is a neighborhood of mansions, projects and historic districts. Crown Heights is so much fuller than what is currently available in the media and we wanted to create a space to honor that. Thus, Nostrand Park was born.
Nostrand Park is a program of the Fund for the City of New York.
