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Help CHNA Fight Bank to Save Oldest House in Crown Heights North
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...
Medgar Evers College Expands
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,...
Vote to bring $5,000 to community development in Crown Heights!
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...
4th Annual Crown Heights North House Tour – October 2nd
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...
CHNA’s Anti-Abandonment Program – Report that dilapidated building on your block!
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...
What the heck are the borders of 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...
Frederick Law Olmsted Film Premieres at Prospect Park
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...
Crown Heights Landmark District Continues to Expand
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...
Crown Heights Walking Tour with Morris, Hill and Sparrow!
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”...
Are revolutionary war artifacts located in Crown Heights?
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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