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 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.

770 Eastern Parkway

Crown Heights

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, 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).

The Chabad World Center

In 5700 (1940), when the Frierdiker Rebbe lived in a hotel in Manhattan, they searched for a suitable residence for Beis Rebbenu outside of New York. They offered the Previous Rebbe a villa as a gift in Baltimore, but the Rebbe refused, saying "B'soch ami anochi yoshev" (I dwell among my people). They also offered to buy the Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim building located in the East Side of Manhattan, but the Rebbe refused this offer.

After searching for a building that would meet the requirements for the Rebbe's house, they found the building at 770 Eastern Parkway, which was a private clinic of a Jewish doctor. The building met all requirements since it had an elevator - a rare feature in a private home in those days. The building was purchased in 5690 (1930) for $30,000, and since then until today, 770 serves as the Chabad World Center and as the Rebbe's beis medrash, around which the neighborhood's life and the Chabad movement worldwide revolve.

The Struggle for the Neighborhood's Character

The character of the neighborhood during the years when the Frierdiker Rebbe established his residence there was distinctly Jewish, similar to the neighboring areas of Brownsville and East Flatbush. Dozens of kehillos, including rabbonim and Rebbes, established their homes in the neighborhood, built shuls and mikvahs, and maintained a complete Jewish life system.

In 5720 (1960), a gradual process began where many Jews left the neighborhood and moved to nearby neighborhoods, while simultaneously there was a reverse process of African-American residents moving into the neighborhood. This population belonged to a lower socio-economic status. As the process intensified, it turned the neighborhood into a crime-stricken area considered dangerous for living. At the height of the exodus, entire buildings were sold at a loss, and Jews sold everything they could, including shuls and Torah and chesed institutions.

The Rebbe cried out painfully against this phenomenon and demanded that the chassidim maintain the Jewish character in the neighborhood and avoid selling houses to non-Jews. For this purpose, he established a system of propaganda and an active committee, and delivered many sichos to the chassidim in which he quoted from Torah sources about the prohibition of these actions and the obligation incumbent upon each resident to maintain the Jewish character.

The Crown Heights Riots

In 5751 (1991), anti-Semitic riots developed in which the neighborhood's Black residents violently attacked chassidim and their property. The riots were called the "Crown Heights Riots" or "Crown Heights Pogrom."

In Elul 5751, a car from the Rebbe's entourage, led by an unmarked police car, went through a red or amber light at a speed between 40 and 100 km/h, according to various accounts. The car entered an intersection and hit another vehicle, and the driver of the struck vehicle, who lost control of his car, ran over and injured two Black children, Gavin and Angela Cato, both seven years old. Local spectators gathered at the scene and began shouting slurs at the police and chassidim. A private Jewish ambulance (Hatzalah) arrived at the scene, and police ordered it to evacuate the injured chassidic driver. A few minutes later, city ambulances arrived to evacuate the young children, and a few hours later, Gavin died from his injuries.

For four days following the accident, the neighborhood's Jews were exposed to sadistic anti-Semitic attacks by youths and an angry mob. In one case, Yankel Rosenbaum (29), an Australian student who was then doing research on Bnei Yisroel for a doctorate in history, was stabbed and murdered by a mob. Before his death, Rosenbaum managed to identify his attacker, Lemrick Nelson. A jury acquitted Nelson of murder charges, but after advocacy by the Jewish community and other factors, Nelson was tried in federal court and charged with violating Rosenbaum's civil rights, receiving a sentence of 19.5 years in prison. Another person was charged with inciting Nelson.

Later, a 67-year-old non-Jewish motorcyclist named Anthony Grazioli got caught up in an angry mob after losing his way in the neighborhood. Grazioli was beaten and stabbed all over his body and died on the spot. Apparently, his beard and black clothing misled the attackers, who thought he was a chassidic Jew.

During the events, 188 attacks on Jews were reported, including several serious injuries. Fires were also set and Jewish stores were looted as events spiraled out of control due to incitement by Black figures who used the riots for anti-Semitic racial incitement.

Chassidic Perspective

When the Frierdiker Rebbe came to the neighborhood, Crown Heights was a mixed neighborhood, mostly Jewish, with Jews of all types and even different chassidic courts, but in the late 1950s with the expansion of Social Welfare laws (Section 8, Food Stamps, etc.) to help the poor, New York became the most worthwhile city for public assistance recipients, and this population, mostly Black, migrated and flocked en masse from the Southern states and across the USA to New York City, and concentrated in several neighborhoods including Crown Heights, and Jews began leaving the neighborhood, except for Chabad chassidim, who as the Rebbe said - would not leave the place chosen by the Frierdiker Rebbe, and 'here Hashem commanded the blessing.'

The Rebbe clarified who bears responsibility for Crown Heights neighborhood security: "It's impossible to answer again and again!! Once and for the future - all matters of neighborhood security (and therefore the entire city of Bnei Yisroel there) are the responsibility (responsibility of pikuach nefesh) of the organizations and therefore their rabbonim (and therefore the Vaad Harabbonim) that belong to them."

Over the years, the Rebbe's directives were fulfilled and the number of Chabad chassidic residents continues to grow, and consequently, apartment prices have jumped.

Organizations and Public Institutions in Crown Heights

Beis Din

The neighborhood has a beis din composed of its chief rabbonim who were chosen by the residents. The beis din manages the spiritual affairs of the neighborhood.

The beis din offices are located in the center of the neighborhood on Kingston Avenue, between Crown and Montgomery Streets.

Crown Heights Rabbonim Kashrus

The beis din has a kashrus system known as "CHK" (Crown Heights Kosher), operated by two members of the Badatz: Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba and Rabbi Yosef Yeshaya Braun. The kashrus system manager is Rabbi DovBer Leverton.

The kashrus system certifies hundreds of products and dozens of stores and factories in the neighborhood and surroundings.

Va'ad Hakohol

The neighborhood residents are represented by the Va'ad Hakohol of the neighborhood, which includes between four to seven members. The Va'ad works for the public good in many areas, such as: maintaining relationships with city officials and helping public institutions and individuals when needed. Handling immigration issues for new residents and dealing with general neighborhood problems. The Va'ad also intervened and helped with the spread of contagious diseases in the neighborhood under the guidance of Dr. Eli Rosen.

Hatzalah

Operates an independent branch of the organization whose center is in Boro Park. The Crown Heights volunteers have four modern ambulances, three of which are permanently parked on the service road adjacent to 770. The organization was founded and is managed by Rabbi Avrohom Bistritsky.

Crown Heights Shomrim

A volunteer organization working for neighborhood security, established in 5725 (1965) by Rabbi Shmuel Serebryanski under the name 'Maccabees.' The organization's purpose upon establishment: protecting the Rebbe, and backing New York Police Department forces operating in the neighborhood. Later, in 5733 (1973), the organization changed its name. The organization also assists with traffic accidents, elderly and lost children, and coordination with NYPD at the field level. The organization operates patrol cars mainly during night hours, as reinforcement for police patrols.

Shmira Crown Heights

A volunteer organization working for neighborhood security, parallel to the 'Shomrim' organization and in a reduced format.

Shifra and Puah

Helps new mothers and their families.

Chasdei Bracha

Works with families and children in distress.

Chevra Bikur Cholim

Visits Jewish patients in New York hospitals.

Ahavas Chesed

Helps with medical needs. The organization treats poor Jews and visitors from outside the USA who need medical treatment, and also deals with counseling and guidance, appointment scheduling, interpreter services, and kosher food for patients. The organization also holds mass blood donation days every few months.

Ten Yad

Hachnosas Kallah for Crown Heights residents and others.

Chevras Simchas Shabbos V'Yom Tov

Aid organization for needy families in Crown Heights for Shabbos and Yom Tov needs.

Eshel Hachnosas Orchim

Provides the Rebbe's guests with their physical and spiritual needs. In Tishrei manages lodging, meals and events, shiurim and farbrengens for thousands of guests - Anash, Tmimim, women, girls, and children. And throughout the year manages a hospitality system in the Eshel building.

Agudas Gedalia

Medical assistance and guidance. The organization's activity was particularly notable during the Corona pandemic. The organization was established in memory of R' Gedalia Schaefer, a neighborhood resident.

Central Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva

The central yeshiva of Chabad. The Tmimim in the yeshiva learn and daven in 770. The yeshiva was established on the day the Frierdiker Rebbe arrived in the United States; hours after arriving, he convened a meeting in the hotel and announced the establishment of the yeshiva. The Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Shneur Zalman Labkowski who also grants semicha to yeshiva students who have been tested by him.

Oholei Torah

The Oholei Torah institutions network is the largest educational institution in the neighborhood with three branches. The network operates a cheder where only kodesh studies are learned. Yeshiva Ketana and Yeshiva Gedolah. Most shluchim in the world are graduates of Oholei Torah institutions. The institution was established in 5715 (1955) following a farbrengen of the Rebbe where the Rebbe expressed that there needs to be education al taharas hakodesh without secular studies. The institution's founder is Rabbi Michael Teitelbaum who also managed it for many years with mesiras nefesh.

Boys Institutions

• Hadar HaTorah 824 Eastern Parkway
• Ohr Menachem 1729 President

• Cheder 'Oholei Yosef Yitzchok' 333 Albany Ave.
• Darchei Menachem 438 Rutland
• Lubavitcher Yeshiva 510 Crown St.
• Tomchei Tmimim - Chovevei Torah 885 Eastern Parkway

Girls' Institutions

• Beis Chaya Mushka Carroll and Troy
• Bnos Menachem East New York
• Beis Rivkah Lefferts and Crown
• Ateres Chaya
• Oholei Yosef Yitzchok - Girls
• Machon L'Yahadus - Bnos Anash (formerly Machon Chana) Crown and President

Institutions for Spreading Judaism

• Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch - The body responsible for all Shluchim activities and spreading of Chabad's extensive wellsprings throughout the world. The official chairman is the Rebbe, who was appointed according to the directive of the Frierdiker Rebbe.
• Chabad on Campus; Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI)
• JNET
• Office of the Shluchim
• Young Agudat Chabad United States - Organization uniting all Chabad Shluchim in the United States and assisting them. The organization was established in 1955 by the Rebbe. The chairman is Rabbi David Raskin, and Rabbi Shmuel Menachem Mendel Butman serves as director.
• Machne Israel - Organization established by the Frierdiker Rebbe aimed at influencing and strengthening Jews in matters of Torah and mitzvot. The organization operates the Mishnayot Baal Peh Society, World Tehillim Society, and organizes the annual central Shas distribution on Yud Tes Kislev. The organization was established in 1941. Members include anyone who registers. Membership is free of cost. Any Torah-observant Jew can register. The Rebbe appointed several members to the organization, of whom only Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Krinsky remains alive today.
• SHALOH (Organization) - SHALOH (acronym for Shiurei Limud HaDat) or its full name "Committee of Defenders and Expanders of Kosher Education," manages a network of religious studies as part of the Released Time Program in New York public schools, founded by the Frierdiker Rebbe.
• FREE - Spreading Judaism and Chassidut among Russian immigrant families. They have a synagogue and activity center on President Street and other locations in New York.

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Additional Institutions Operating in the Neighborhood

• Lubavitch Library - This library is among the most important Jewish libraries in the world. The library houses about 250,000 books, including very ancient books, manuscripts, holy objects from Chabad Rebbes and general Chassidut, archives of Chabad-related news clippings, and more. The library also has an exhibition hall displaying certain items. The current chief librarian is Rabbi Shalom DovBer Levine.
• Agudas Chasidei Chabad - Body meant to represent Chabad, coordinate the Shluchim, and ensure the expansion and establishment of the Lubavitch Library. According to the organization's bylaws, elections should be held every few years among the organization's leaders for the position of chairman, but in recent years elections have not been held.
• Tzivos Hashem (New York)

• Tzivos Hashem Museum - An interactive children's museum at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, operated by the Tzivos Hashem children's organization. The museum is designed for English-speaking Jewish children and is equipped with the latest electronic equipment to provide an attractive and enjoyable Jewish experience.
• JEM (Jewish Educational Media)
• Kollel Menachem, Kollel Avreichim (Crown Heights)
• Crown Heights Community Council
• OK Kosher - The OK Kosher organization, one of the largest and most recognized kosher certification agencies in the world, operates from Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Publishing

• Kehot - Chabad's central publishing house and the largest Jewish publishing house in the world. The organization's name represents the year 1745, the birth year of the Alter Rebbe, founder of Chabad Chassidut. The publishing house was established in 1942 by the Frierdiker Rebbe. Kehot has several branches worldwide, publishing Kehot books in various languages.
• Vaad Hanachos Hatmimim
• Vaad Hanachos B'Lahak - An institution working to write and edit the Rebbe's words translated into Hebrew, adapted for non-Yiddish speaking audiences. The organization publishes the Rebbe's Torah in volumes in different series. In recent years, the organization has participated in editing the Igrot Kodesh series.
• Vaad L'Hafotzas Sichos - A publishing institute engaged in editing, printing, and distributing the Rebbe's edited talks and preparing new books. The committee was established in 1967 and continues to be active in distributing the Rebbe's talks. Its current director is Rabbi Shneur Zalman Chanin. This institute is the official appointee of the Rebbe for printing and distributing Chabad Chassidut books.
• Otzar Sifrei Lubavitch - A center for publishing Chabad books, working in cooperation with Kehot Publishing. The publishing director was Rabbi Yaakov Reich from Crown Heights.

Newspapers

Crown Heights News

In 5747 (1987), a newspaper called "Crown Heights" began publication with the goal of serving as an information outlet for the Va'ad Hakohol. In practice, only two issues were published.

Beis Moshiach Weekly

Beis Moshiach Weekly is a worldwide Chabad weekly for spreading the message of Geulah, distributed in thousands of copies worldwide through direct mailing to subscribers and distribution in stores throughout the globe.

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Beis Moshiach in English

The English edition is published as a separate magazine - 64 pages, and is sent to Hebrew edition subscribers upon request, and in parallel, the English edition has an independent subscription and sales system marketing thousands of issues weekly in the United States, in Eretz Hakodesh and worldwide.

Study Halls

Several study halls are scattered throughout the neighborhood, open 24 hours a day for residents' learning. This initiative is managed by the Yagdil Torah organization:

• Yagdil Torah Study Hall 'Tiferes Yitzchok' - at 574 Empire (between Kingston and Brooklyn)
• 'Anshei Moshe' Study Hall - Lincoln Street (between Schenectady and Utica)
• Beis Medrash at 580 Crown St.
• "Yagdil Torah Study Hall" at 777 Eastern Parkway across from 770 in the basement
• Yagdil Torah Study Hall - President Street (in Holly) between Albany and Kingston
• Reim Ahuvim Study Hall on the second floor at Carroll and Schenectady

Men's Mikvaos

• "Mikvah Yisroel" - 749 Eastern Parkway (between Kingston and Brooklyn). Named after Yisroel Dreizin
• "Mikvah Meir" - 394 Kingston (between Crown and Montgomery). Named after R' Meir Rabkin (the largest and most elaborate)
• "Frankel's Mikvah" - 1699 President (between Utica and Rogers)
• "Lefferts Mikvah" - 672 Lefferts
• "Empire Shtiebel Mikvah" - 469 Empire
• "Mikvah by Anash Shul" - 770 Montgomery
• "Teitelbaum's Mikvah" - 340 East 52
• "Reim Ahuvim" - 1612 Carroll St. corner of Schenectady
• "Anshei Lubavitch" - 578 Albany

Private Mikvaos

• In the home of Rabbi Shneiur Zalman Gurary
• In the home of Rabbi Shneiur Zalman Levkovsky
• In the home of R' Yaakov Elberg

Women's Mikvaos

• 1506 Union (corner of Albany)
• 'Mei Chaya Mushka' - 445 Troy (corner of Lefferts)
• Carroll and Troy

Streets in the Neighborhood

Extended entry - Eastern Parkway, Kingston, President, Union

• Eastern Parkway - The main avenue in the neighborhood, where several central buildings are located, primarily the Chabad World Center - 770
• Kingston - The central street in Chabad community life in the neighborhood. Most Jewish shops and businesses in the neighborhood are located on this street, along which many institutions and organizations serving the neighborhood's Jews are also located
• President - The Rebbe's private home is located on this street, as well as the dormitory building of the Central Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva
• Union - A quiet side street in the neighborhood, sometimes used for the Rebbe's courtyard needs

Websites

COLLive - English

In 2008, the website "COLlive" was established. The site was created in collaboration with the Hebrew COL website but is independently operated by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Zeitlin, the Rebbe's shliach in Tucson, Arizona, who also serves as the site's chief editor.

Chabad Info

Chabad Info (chabad.info) is a Chabad news website that brings news from Chabad chassidim in Israel and worldwide. It was established in 2003 by Rabbi Shraga Krombi. The site provides daily news from the Rebbe's shluchim and Chabad communities across the globe, and frequently publishes first-time photos, documents, and various materials. Chabad Info also publishes articles from the Beis Moshiach weekly magazine. The English version of Chabad Info - parallel to the Hebrew Chabad Info - provides Chabad news from around the world in English.

Chabadpedia

The Chabad encyclopedia on the internet operates under the auspices of Chabad Info and the Chabad Israel website. The encyclopedia operates using MediaWiki software for internet encyclopedias, and presents to the reader all existing knowledge about Chabad chassidus, its leaders and teachings, with emphasis on matters of geulah and Moshiach. It also deals with other topics related to Chabad chassidus and Judaism in general.

Chabad Shop

The site operates a virtual store selling thousands of Jewish and chassidic products including: Chabad seforim, tashmishei kedusha, geulah and Moshiach products, and more. The store serves Anash and shluchim worldwide as well as many mekuravim who purchase Jewish items through it.

Anash.org

Anash.org is a Chabad news website in English, established in 2019.

Shuls

• 770, The gabbaim are: Zalman Lipsker, Yosef Yitzchak Lash, Avraham Holtzberg.
• Beis Binyamin Synagogue - Named after R' Binyamin Levin from Nevel, founded on 9 Adar 5760/2000. The gabbai of the synagogue is R' Lima Minkowitz, 680 Montgomery.
• Beis Shmuel - Named after Rabbi Mule Mochkin. The manager of the synagogue is R' Moshe Pinson and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Garelik. Located in Tzivos Hashem Museum on the second floor.
• Agudas Yisroel - Synagogue under the ownership of the Chassidic philanthropist R' Sholom Ber Drizin, 465 Crown.
• Ksav Sofer - Empire, the Rabbi of the synagogue is Rabbi Nissan Mangel.
• Beis Eliezer Yitzchak above Mikvah Meir - Named after Rabbi Eliezer Yitzchak Levi. The Rabbi of the synagogue is Rabbi Kalman Weinfeld.
• "Chassidim V'anshei Maaseh" Synagogue in the basement of 1466 Union.
• "R' Michael's Minyan" Zal Ohali Torah 667 Eastern Parkway.
• "Ahavas Achim" - "Empire Shtiebel" - Previously served by Rabbi Lipman Shapiro as rabbi until his passing, 489 Empire.
• "Ahavas Moshe" Synagogue 'Maple Street Shul' 612 Maple St, Rabbi Chaim Fogelman.
• "Shein Shul" Synagogue 390 Kingston Ave, of Rabbi Eliyahu Shein.
• "Getzel Shul" Synagogue in the basement of 1414 President. Named after R' Getzel Rubashkin, gabbai Rabbi Izgui.
• "Anshei Lubavitch Kahal Chassidim" Synagogue "Baumgarten Shul".
• "Reim Ahuvim" Synagogue 1614 Carroll St. Rabbi Moshe Klein.
• "Frankel's Shul" Synagogue 1699 President, Rabbi Moshe Nissan Wolowobsky.
• "Anshei Rubshov" Synagogue of R' Yona Gerlanter 691 Crown.
• Beis Medrash "Ohel Natan" Synagogue 580 Crown St.
• "Der Shtiebel" Synagogue in Sholom Center Albany.
• "Di Shul" Synagogue 481 Albany. Rabbi Levi Kaplan, gabbai Levi Seewald.
• "Eliyahu Nachum" Synagogue 672 Lefferts, gabbai David Rimler.
• "Beis Levi Yitzchak" Shul 556 Crown second floor.
• "Di Beinoni Shul" Synagogue 556 Crown St. first floor.
• "Mayanot" Synagogue Kingston. Rabbi Silver.
• "Beis Menachem Mendel" Synagogue 770 Lefferts Rabbi Nachman Yosef Twersky.
• "Kollel Menachem" Synagogue 303 Kingston, Rabbi Yosef Avraham Heller.
• "The Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch Minyan" Synagogue 788 Eastern Parkway, in the offices of the Central Organization for Education.
• Synagogue 770 in the small zal.
• "Aliyah Shul" Synagogue East New York. Rabbi Moshe Feiglin.
• "Beis Rivkah" Synagogue 310 Crown St Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky.
• "Beis David" Synagogue 450 New York "Nusach Ashkenaz" Rabbi David Gershon.
• Moroccan Synagogue under Beis Levi Yitzchak Crown and Albany Rabbi Lazer Avtzon.
• Sephardic Synagogue "Nimani" Rabbi Nimani Empire.
• "Nathan Shul" Synagogue Midwood and Brooklyn Rabbi Chaim Yisroel Wilhelm.
• "Di Besht" Synagogue Empire Boulevard Rabbi Shmuel Koperman.
• "Kol Yisroel" Synagogue 603 St. Johns Pl. and Franklin.
• "Beis Bentzion" Synagogue - 935 Eastern Parkway downstairs (formerly Young Israel).
• "Murphy Shul" Synagogue Chovevei Torah downstairs.
• "Ohel Natan" Synagogue Albany.
• "Mercaz Dovrei Ivrit" Synagogue 845 Eastern Parkway Rabbi Gavriel Avichzer.
• "Anshei Lubavitch" Community Synagogue, Rabbi Yosef Garelik, 578 Albany.
• "Chevra Ahavas Yisroel" Synagogue 'Carlebach' style 304 Albany.
• "Reines Shul" Synagogue in the Ohali Torah building Troy, mashpia Rabbi Shmuel Butman.
• "Chevras Shas" Synagogue Kingston Montgomery.
• St. Johns New York Synagogue in the basement.
• "Mishkan Menachem" Synagogue on the lower floor of Tzivos Hashem Museum, gabbai Davidowitz.
• "F.R.E.E." (Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe) Synagogue for those from the former Soviet Union 1383 President.
• "Anshei Moshe" Synagogue in the basement of R' Menachem Mendel Yuzvich in Lincoln Place.
• "Merkaz Avreichim" Synagogue 466 Albany in the basement Rabbi Ephraim Fishel Oster.
• "Beis Gimpel Chaim" Synagogue named after Gimpel Ormeland and Yitzchak Nemes 309 New York.
• Anash Synagogue (Fisher Shul), 770 Montgomery. R' David Fisher.

Transportation

Crown Heights is networked with trains and buses. The 'Kingston Avenue' subway station is adjacent to 770 (Line #3). Additional stations are located at President Street corner of Nostrand (Line #5), Eastern Parkway corner of Nostrand (Line #3), Eastern Parkway corner of Utica (Lines #3, 4), and Sterling corner of Nostrand (Line #5). Bus lines run on the avenues: Kingston, Brooklyn, New York, and Utica.

Among others, there are bus lines that reach the Charedi neighborhoods of Boro Park and Flatbush, as well as a special line connecting Montreal, Canada to Crown Heights serving mainly Chabad chassidim.

Economy

The neighborhood has grocery stores, prepared kosher food shops, cafes, dairy and meat restaurants, wine shops, Judaica, clothing, electronics, and more.

Twin Cities

Crown Heights has twin city agreements with Kfar Chabad in Eretz Yisroel, and with the city of Montreal in Canada.

See Also

The Great Flight from Crown Heights

For Further Reading

• Chevra Machzikei HaShchuna, "Here Hashem Has Commanded the Blessing" - on strengthening and establishing the neighborhood - a collection of discourse excerpts on the subject from the years 5729-5735 (1969-1975). Within the Otzar HaChochma website.
• Avraham Ber, Jerusalem of America, in the Beis Moshiach weekly magazine issue 713
• Yosef Ashkenazi, Otzar HaChassidim - The Personalities and Chassidic Teachings of the Mashpi'im of Chabad in New York, published by Chazak, 5773 (2013)
• Ahuva Ehrenfries, The Rebbe's Street, in 'Mishpacha' magazine 12 Tishrei 5778 page 326
• Menachem Bronpman, The Struggle for Crown Heights, Kfar Chabad weekly issue 1911 page 46
• The War for the Home, Vayilachem Milchamot Hashem, Kfar Chabad weekly supplement, Sukkot 5782, pp. 52-62
• Yisroel Elfenbein, Nesi Doreinu is Still Now in this Neighborhood, in the 'Chayei Rebbi' section of Kfar Chabad weekly issue 2029 page 28 ** • ** issue 2030 page 36 ** • ** issue 2063
• Shraga Krombi Selection and Appointment of Neighborhood Rabbis - Thirty Years to the Elections in Crown Heights. Beis Moshiach weekly 1024 page 22

External Links

• Updates and news from Crown Heights on the Chabad Info website
• Crown Heights riots - photo gallery
• To Visit His Chamber, all synagogues in Crown Heights
• Rare photos: Crown Heights, 100 years ago
• Fire in Crown Heights • Those Were the Days