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March 24, 2015 (Crown Heights North III) Crown Heights North Historic District is a national historic district located in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn , Kings County, New York . The district encompasses 1,019 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Brooklyn.
The PS 373 Brooklyn Transition Center at H594K, serving grades 9–12, is located at 561 Grand Avenue at the border of Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. [ 73 ] Medgar Evers College is an institution of higher education in the neighborhood.
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.
George B. and Susan Elkins House (1375 Dean St, Crown Heights) October 24, 2006 [122] James W. and Lucy S. Elwell House 70 Lefferts Pl, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn 40°40′52″N 73°57′39″W / 40.68111°N 73.96083°W / 40.68111; -73
The center's Romanesque Revival building, located at Pierrepont and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights, was designed by George B. Post and built in 1878–1881 by David H. King Jr., [5] is a National Historic Landmark and part of New York City's Brooklyn Heights Historic District. The CBH houses materials relating to the history of Brooklyn ...
Crown Heights Neighborhood first developed in 1870 contains over 1,500 well-preserved buildings in distinct period styles up to 1930s. 2016 boundary increase added properties related to Shirley Chisholm , first African-American woman in Congress.
770 Eastern Parkway (Yiddish: 770 איסטערן פארקוויי), also known as "770" ("Seven Seventy"), is the street address of the World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, located on Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The building is the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch world movement ...
The Park Place Historic District is a small historic district located on Park Place between Bedford and Franklin Avenues in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It consists of 13 row houses from #651 to the east to #675 to the west, which were built in 1899-90 and designed by J. Mason Kirby in a combination of the Queen ...