Crown Heights, Brooklyn

The Crown Heights Riot of 1991 Anti-Semitism has been prevalent throughout the world since the establishment of the Jewish religion and unfortunately, traces of it can still be found to this day in the United States. What exactly is anti-Semitism? It is the intense dislike for and prejudice against the Jews; it can range anywhere from simple opposition to the Jews to vicious hatred displayed through physical torment. Some examples of the more publicized cases of violence against the Jews include

The community we decided to look at is in the north Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. The area we decided to focus on the surrounding blocks around the St. John’s Recreation center. The blocks we examine are from Utica Avenue & Albany Avenue and Park Place & Bergen Street. Our team decided to use this community due to most of the group members live and/or are familiar with this community. Being familiar with how the community used to have high crime rates, drug infested that housed many low income

Brooklyn, New York, was once an area that many people who were moving to the New York City region took as a granted place for low-rent homes and apartments. However, many people currently, particularly those people of color, are finding themselves displaced out of Brooklyn due to growing high rents and the inevitable growth of gentrification. Gentrification occurs in urban neighborhoods when the arrival of wealthier people and higher-end businesses results in an increased displacement of lower income

were rampant in Crown Height, Brooklyn. The Crown Height riots of 1991 brought racial and religious clashes between the African-American and Orthodox Lubavitcher Jewish community. Rabbi Menachem M schneerson the revered and respected head rabbi of the Lubavitcher Jewish people was part of the 3 car motorcade that struck and killed Gavin Cato and badly injured his cousin Angela Kato. The rebbe had an NYPD escort for all his cemetery visits.(According to the article Crown Heights erupts in three

Every neighborhood in Brooklyn is unique, with its own style and culture accented by tastes and smells on every block. NY’s Brooklyn Flavors has captured these neighborhoods in their line of high quality, handmade organic bath products, skin care products, and soy candles. Bedford-Stuyvesant: Known for its gorgeous brownstones, this historic neighborhood is tight knit and down to earth. The earthy scent of sandalwood, jasmine, cedarwood, and patchouli represent this community well. Canarsie: The

right after the deaths in Brooklyn, was actually not directly associated with Gavin and Yankel’s death. In fact, even if their riot didn’t occur, the deaths would still be an important part of the history of Crown Heights. In the beginning the major target of the riot, was unclear. Some assumed that the black’s target would be the police. However, it soon became clear that their target was the Lubavitch Jews. The black people went into the Jewish neighborhoods of Crown Heights and threw and bottles at

What is inequality? It is the difference or variation in size, amount, rank, quality, social position or the fact that one group is more privileged than the other, or it can be based on the unequal opportunity of certain groups on the society. Based on the book ‘’social problems’’ by John J. Macionis, he said that there is an unequal distribution of economic resources, which means that one part of the population has more they suppose to have that the other part does not have enough to support itself

was consider one of the oldest neighborhood in Brooklyn- Flatbush. To be honest, I didn’t know must about this neighborhood prior to this research. The only thing that I knew about was when I first came to the United States; Flatbush was a pretty bad neighborhood to venture at night. The reason was because, we could always heard in the media about shooting happened inside that neighborhood. One of my relative even told me that don’t enrolled in Brooklyn College when I was still in high school because

Nonetheless, Brooklyn is a notable example of how gentrification can change how an area is perceived and changes when gentrification begins to occur. As previously mentioned, a combination of both an influx of people returning to live in New York who elected to live in the suburbs previously and rent increases in trendy Manhattan neighborhoods caused for some to look elsewhere. Places very close to Manhattan such as Williamsburg and Brooklyn Heights become affordable options. As

old timer residents of the neighborhood are staying; by staying in rent stabilized apartments. Rent stabilized apartments are the new temporarily solution to gentrification. As Megan Carpenter pointed out in her article titled “The last battle for Brooklyn, America's most unaffordable place to buy a home” it’s the only reason why the demographics hasn’t changed completely. Tenants like my family and our neighbors refuse to accept buyouts. Carpenter’s tells a story of a woman named Louisy, much like