This just in from the Crown Heights North Assoc. (CHNA): CHNA, the organization responsible for the landmarking of Crown Heights North “is now in a position to further advance its mission by acquiring and restoring the Elkins House at 1375 Dean Street and transforming it into a vital community...

Credit: Michael Del Castillo/The Brooklyn Ink This news comes by way of Brooklynian and BrooklynInk: CUNY’s Medgar Evers College has opened a new $247 million School of Science, Health and Technology building on the former site of a sanitation garage. The building, known as Academic Building I,...

Great news!  One of your favorite neighborhood development organizations (ahem) has the opportunity to be awarded $5,000 towards our groundbreaking community development initiatives for Crown Heights.  That is because yours truly has been nominated for a Brooklyn DoGooder award (I am honored). This...

The Crown Heights North Association is proud to announce that the Fourth Annual Crown Heights North House Tour will take place on Saturday, October 2, 2010. Once again, homes, churches and cultural institutions in Crown Heights North will open their doors to the touring public, in a celebration...

Do you have a building on your block that looks like this? Credit: Shawn Rosvold Well, now thanks to the Crown Heights North Association, maybe this eyesore can be helped. We received a letter in the mail from CHNA recently announcing their new “Anti-Abandonment” program: Crown Heights...

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...