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Contents 1 Article mostly about a brief period 2 History 3 West Indian 4 Borders of Crown Heights 5 this article seems out of date 6 the correct way to list "Notable natives" 7 Area

[edit] Article mostly about a brief period

This page mostly concerns itself with a brief period in the history of Crown Heights.

That is of course no reason to remove it. Dysprosia 04:23, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

How about reformatting this page to discuss the neighborhood and briefly mentioning the riots while providing a link to Crown Heights Riot? Atheistrabbi 7 July 2005 14:00 (UTC)

[edit] History

I redid this section because the it was terrible, most of it wasn't even have complete sentences or nothing. Now, the original had no sources, and while I think I have some knowledge of the area's history, I've picked it up randomly and informally, have never read anything about it to use as a source, and have never been there, spoken with someone at all authoritative on the subject, or done anything else to support my belief that I have this knowledge. So, the current history section is a combination of two sets of assertions on the subject which, if I'm very lucky, may very well be accurate. If someone would know even remotely what they're talking about here, please look it over.

Certified: the above written by S. Martin at 07:40, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] West Indian

The term West Indian is not regarded highly by many of Caribbean descent, so why use it? 17:40, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

It isn't? Jayjg ^(talk) 17:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I grew up in Crown Heights, that is what the parade is called.

[edit] Borders of Crown Heights

-- the generally accepted Western border of Crown Heights North of Eastern Parkway has moved with time, first towards the West (as far as Vanderbilt, or all the way to Flatbush) and more recently back towards the East (some claim as far as Bedford, others say Classon, others say Washington). It really depends on whom you ask or what decade you're talking about, as there's no official or natural boundary. -- 01Apr07.

I'm not so sure that Bedford is the western border. I'd consider Washington, or even Flatbush Avenue, which both use the 11225 zip code (within the other borders).

Sometimesdee 16:16, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Crown Heights is much furtehr east than that. It doesn't really start until Bedford Avenue. Washington Avenue is still wholy within Prospect Heights.

The Encyclopedia of the City of New York (Columbia University Press) lists Washington Avenue as the border between Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. This is the definitive guide to NYC. All boundaries to the east of Washington are made up by real estate brokers trying to pass off Crown Heights apartments as being located in Prospect Heights.

Speaking of renaming... can we just call [Crown Heights] + [Prospect Heights] = "Museum Heights" and be done with it? ;)

Maybe becasue the residents would wonder why their area had suddenly been renamed?? I can't see what the problem with Crown Heights is, it has a nice ring to it. CyntWorkStuff 18:17, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] this article seems out of date

The majority of the article seems to have been written well over a decade ago when the disturbance dubbed the "Crown Heights Riots" had only recently occurred. While no doubt a event of historical significance, it happened a while ago and only in a small area of Crown Heights.

The current history, demographics, etc., etc. really needs to be updated. CyntWorkStuff 18:17, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Since there is a separate article about the Crown Heights Riot, I don't think so many of the facts should be repeated here, especially since it doesn't touch on underlying reasons of racial competition and tension.--Parkwells (talk) 20:59, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] the correct way to list "Notable natives"

Meaning no disrespect at all to the Rebbe (Menachem Mendel Schneerson), but as far as I have seen these "Notable natives" lists just have the person's name and you are expected to click the link to get further info such as dates of birth, death, why "notable" etc. Could someone find the "wiki rules" for this type of thing? CyntWorkStuff 17:36, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Area

It is two miles "long" and two miles "deep". Why not just say 2 miles width and length... how can you measure depth on a town... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.202.90.180 (talk) 00:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

by not being shomer shabbos. :p 68.32.48.59 (talk) 03:54, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

ok, so Sabbath-breaking has nothing to do with it, whatever. Big Deal. As for crown heights, it's probably three or four stories deep. 68.32.48.59 (talk) 03:55, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

3 or 4 stories deep... how do you measure depth of a town. its eg: manhattan is long and thin.... crown heits is deep? Do you get my point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.225.189 (talk) 23:32, 4 June 2008 (UTC)