Editing Crown Heights (section)

[[File:770 Eastern Parkway.jpg|thumb|770 Eastern Parkway[[File:קראון הייטס.jpg|thumb|Crown Heights]]]]'''Crown Heights''' is a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York in the United States, and is famous as the neighborhood where the Rebbe lives. In the neighborhood located east of Prospect Park, the famous [[770 Eastern Parkway|770]] building is located. The main street in the neighborhood is Eastern Parkway. Kingston is the central street in the Chabad community life in the neighborhood. Most Jewish shops and businesses in the neighborhood are located on Kingston.

Crown Heights was previously one of the largest Jewish concentrations in New York. Hundreds of synagogues, dozens of mikvaos, yeshivas and other Jewish institutions operated there. Many courts of Admorim were also in the neighborhood. However, in the early 5740s (1980s), many African-Americans began flooding into the neighborhood, resulting in many Jews fleeing to other neighborhoods, such as Boro Park and Williamsburg. The neighborhood emptied of most Jews who lived there, while simultaneously the Rebbe called for his chassidim not to leave the neighborhood. The great exodus caused housing prices to drop at a loss, which caused the Rebbe to cry out also about the Jewish money being wasted without account. Following the Rebbe's instructions, Chabad chassidim remained living in the neighborhood and worked to expand it again.

The homes of Jewish residents in the neighborhood today extend to - Park Place Street in the north, Rockaway Ave. in the east, Linden Ave. in the south, and Rogers Avenue in the west. About twenty thousand Chabad chassidim currently live in Crown Heights, alongside a population of about one hundred and thirty thousand African-Americans. There are 75 synagogues and 15 mikvaos in the neighborhood.

Crown Heights has central Chabad organizations and large educational institutions, charity and chesed organizations including: Agudas Chasidei Chabad Worldwide, Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, Machne Israel, CHK - Kashrus, Chabad World Center for Greeting Moshiach, Nshei Chabad, Di Yiddishe Heim, Beis Moshiach weekly magazine, Otzar Sifrei Lubavitch, PRAI, Kehot Publication Society, Central Tzeirei Agudas Chabad, Library of Lubavitch, Central Chabad Yeshiva - 770, Eshel Hachnosas Orchim, [[Jem - Jewish educational Media|JEM]], OK Kashrus, Crown Heights Beis Din, Vaad Hakohol Crown Heights, Hatzalah Crown Heights, Tzivos Hashem (New York), Tzivos Hashem Museum, Oholei Torah Crown Heights, Lubavitcher Yeshiva, Ohr Menachem Crown Heights, Beis Rivkah (Crown Heights), Beis Chaya Mushka (Crown Heights).