Editing New York City (section)

== Crown Heights ==
Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The main street of the neighborhood, Eastern Parkway, is where 770 - the worldwide Chabad headquarters - is located.

Crown Heights was formerly one of the largest Jewish concentrations in New York. Hundreds of synagogues, yeshivas, and other Jewish institutions operated there. Many Admurim also had their courts in the neighborhood. However, in the 1960s, many African Americans began moving into the neighborhood, and as a result, most Jews left. The Rebbe established a clear position against leaving the neighborhood, and according to his instructions, Chabad chassidim remained in the neighborhood and did not leave it. Today, about twenty thousand Chabad chassidim live there. Alongside them is a population of about one hundred and fifty thousand African Americans.