X-Nico

11 unusual facts about Crown Heights


Bello Nock

In 2011 Bello performed at the Great Parade in front of the Chabad world headquarters in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn performing a stunt by jumping off the roof of a four-storey tall building in front of an audience of over 20,500 people in addition to thousands watching live over the internet.

Ben Shuldiner

In 2002, Shuldiner and co-founder Marisa Boan received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to build a high school that better reflected their vision of a fair public education system, and the High School for Public Service: Heroes of Tomorrow opened on the George W. Wingate High School campus in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in the fall of 2003.

Crown Heights

Project 2x1, a 2013 documentary on Crown Heights' Caribbean and Hasidic residents, using Google Glass

Eliyahu Federman

In 2010 the New York Times published a letter that Federman wrote challenging a gag order issued by the Beth Din in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section, which prohibited members of the Lubavitcher community from speaking with the police or media.

In 2011, the New York Times chronicled Federman's challenge of the male-only voting policy of a social service agency in the Jewish Brooklyn Crown Heights Community - where he argued that the policy may be unconstitutional and has no basis in Jewish law.

Federman argued in an Op-Ed that an educational seminar teaching the African-American and Jewish communities about their rights and responsibilities when stopped, questioned, ticketed or searched by the police - would enhance police-community relations in Crown Heights.

Gino Perente

Individuals associated with Perente purchased 1107-1115 Carrol St, an apartment building in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, and he lived there, surrounded by volunteers for his organizations, for the rest of his life.

Iris Cantor

Born Iris Bazel in 1931, the first daughter of Fay and Al Bazel, she grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.

Ninjasonik

Ninjasonik are native New Yorkers: Telli grew up in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn while Jah-Jah was born and raised in The Bronx.

Paul Robeson High School for Business and Technology

Paul Robeson High School for Business and Technology is a high school in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City, New York.

Wessell Anderson

Anderson grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, and played jazz early on at the urging of his father, who was a drummer.


Meyer Seewald

Meyer Seewald is a Crown Heights resident who started an organization dedicated to eradicating child sexual abuse (CSA) within the Orthodox Jewish Community.

Project 2x1

Project 2x1 is styled as a documentary film covering the daily lives of the Chabad Hasidic and West Indian residents of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Shimon Waronker

In the fall of 2010, Waronker opened a new public school, The New American Academy, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York.

Sumner Avenue Line and New Lots Avenue Line

After crossing Fulton Street, buses use a number of streets through Crown Heights and Ocean Hill, eventually turning south on Ralph Avenue and southeast on East 98th Street.