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The Crown Heights riots, 30 years later: Insiders recall tense three days between the mayor and the Jewish community
Aides for former Mayor David Dinkins and leaders of the Crown Heights Jewish community recall the events and the progress made since then.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden takes main role in latest Crown Heights gentrification clash
The Garden said the development threatens its whole collection, including endangered orchids and bonsai trees that are hundreds of years old.
Watch: NYPD tries to shut down Sukkot street party in Crown Heights
Hundreds could be seen celebrating the Sukkot holiday by dancing in close proximity on a blocked off street in Crown Heights.
Decades after the riots, Crown Heights’ anger is not what you think
“Our enemy was the successful Jew living in suburbia.”
“It should call out to every Jew:” Crown Heights rallies for Black Lives Matter
“This is such a blessing. I’ve been here through riots and we had different uprisings and different things that went on in the Crown Heights community between Blacks and Jews. This to me is, I’m almost choked,” said Felicia Gomes, 55, a lifelong Crown Heights resident after stumbling upon a Black Lives Matter solidarity march in her neighborhood organized by the community’s Jewish residents.
Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods not among hardest-hit by coronavirus: city data
The city released the data the same day that the New York Police Department shut down a Brooklyn yeshiva that was secretly teaching 60 children.
Are high rates of mental illness connected to a spike in anti-Semitic violence?
“There are people, some of whom have mental illness, who are vulnerable to influence by the trends that are occurring around them in society.”
Jews unite at rally against anti-Semitism, but diverge on police response
Will more NYPD officers stop anti-Semitic assaults in New York? Some Orthodox Jews say yes, but other Jews and people of color disagree.
Guardian Angels patrol outside Shabbat services amid Brooklyn hate crime surge
A boy named Berel, age 9, was unimpressed. “Eh, we see a lot of police these days,” he said. “We’ve got it at our school, too.”