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    Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Crown Heights is bounded by Washington Avenue to the west...
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    The Crown Heights riot was a race riot that took place from August 19 to August 21, 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City. Black...
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    Brooklyn Heights is a residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Old Fulton Street near the...
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    Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the northwest of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The traditional boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the west...
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  • Crown Heights may refer to: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn Crown Heights riot, a 1991 race riot in Crown...
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    Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a synagogue located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, as construction workers, on behalf of the synagogue's leaders...
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  • Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities (1992) is a one-person play by Anna Deavere Smith, an African-American playwright, author...
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    City Subway. Located under Eastern Parkway near Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, it is served by the 4 train at all times and the 3 train at all...
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  • Crown Heights Affair are an American R&B / funk / disco group from Brooklyn, New York City, founded in 1967. Originally known as Ben Iverson and the Nue...
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    000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the museum's Beaux-Arts building was...
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    Americans in what is now Brooklyn, New York, United States. Today it is part of the present-day neighborhood of Crown Heights. Weeksville was named after...
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    Crown Heights. CUNY's New York City College of Technology (City Tech) of The City University of New York (CUNY) (Downtown Brooklyn/Brooklyn Heights)...
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    This is a list of neighborhoods in Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, United States. Crown Heights Weeksville Flatbush Beverley Squares:...
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  • (CSA) within the Orthodox Jewish community. Originally based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the organization has been noted for its controversial wall of...
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    The Brooklyn Children's Museum is a children's museum in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Founded in 1899, it is the first...
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  • LustSickPuppy (category People from Crown Heights, Brooklyn)
    and harsh noise. Tomasyn Hayes was born on January 2, 1997 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where they were also raised. As a child, they wrote raps and attended...
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  • Brooklyn Community Board 8 is a New York City community board that encompasses the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Weeksville...
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    master's degree in architecture from MIT. She currently resides in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Alexis Sablone was born on August 12, 1986, and grew up in Old...
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    (January 30, 1943 – July 22, 2024) was an American Chabad rabbi in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. He was the director of Lubavitch Youth Organization...
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    Joan Rivers (category People from Crown Heights, Brooklyn)
    Prospect Heights and Crown Heights in Brooklyn. At the age of eight, she created her first alter ego, J. Sondra Meredith. She attended the Brooklyn Society...
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  • Crown Heights Jewish Community Council (CHJCC) is a nonprofit organization run by Jewish residents of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. CHJCC acts as a social...
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    Americans have since moved into the surrounding areas of Brooklyn, such as East New York, Crown Heights, Brownsville, and Fort Greene. Since the early 2000s...
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  • the Brooklyn-based electronic duo of the same name. It was recorded between July 2001 and May 2003 in bassist Evan Mast's Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment...
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  • new tenants against the gentrification of the neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. The CHTU has pushed for local collective bargaining...
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    Bobby Fischer (category People from Crown Heights, Brooklyn)
    In 1949, Regina moved the family to Manhattan and the following year to Brooklyn, New York City, where she studied for her master's degree in nursing and...
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    Byron Donalds (category Politicians from Brooklyn)
    district includes much of Southwest Florida. Born and raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Donalds attended Florida A&M University and earned a Bachelor...
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  • Thomas Eboli (category Deaths by firearm in Brooklyn)
    "Tommy Ryan" Eboli (June 13, 1911 Scisciano, Italy – July 16, 1972 Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York) was a New York City mobster who eventually became the...
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    Jason Katims (category People from Crown Heights, Brooklyn)
    Jason Katims was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, and raised first in Crown Heights and later in Midwood. His father Robert Katims...
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  • $22, Hill moved to a basement apartment in the neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, with twenty-two year old fellow influencer Jake Garner, an acquaintance...
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    Williamson, Alex (December 17, 2019). "Crown Heights subway stations to be renamed for Medgar Evers College". Brooklyn Eagle. Retrieved October 2, 2020. Meyer...
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