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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 residents attacked Orthodox Jewish residents, damaged their homes, and looted businesses.
In Brooklyn's Crown Heights, where West Indian Rastafarians and other Blacks live next door to the Jewish Chabad community, ethnic tensions are high. After a minor car crash, the headstrong Judah and other Jewish men who patrol the neighborhood as vigilantes confront Scratch, a mouthy hustler.
1991 – Overtown, Miami, June 28, Riot in the heavily Black section of Overtown against Cuban Americans. Miami, Florida; 1991 – Crown Heights riot, August 1991, Brooklyn, New York; 1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots, April–May 1992, Los Angeles, California; 1992 – West Las Vegas riots, April 29, Las Vegas, Nevada
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, August 1991. No Blood in His Feet – Rabbi Joseph Spielman describes the riot events; he believes that blacks lied about the events surrounding the death of the boy Cato in order to start anti-Semitic riots. He focuses on the malicious intent of the black kids who stabbed Rosenbaum.
In response to the infamous Crown Heights Riot in 1991 and the terrorist killing [3] of 16-year-old yeshiva student Ari Halberstam on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, the museum was built to create a teaching tool for local children to better understand their neighbors.
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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 Heights Brooklyn; Crown Heights – Utica Avenue (IRT Eastern Parkway Line), a subway station in the neighborhood; Crown Heights, New York, a hamlet on the west side of the town of Poughkeepsie
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