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Fast Forward Dramatic video of Crown Heights hit-and-run circulates after spike in antisemitic hate crimes in NYC
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News Those ‘Messiah Is Here!’ signs popping up in New York? Here’s who’s behind them.
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News The Crown Heights riots, 30 years later: Insiders recall tense three days between the mayor and the Jewish community
In the summer of 1991, following an accident that killed a young Black child and the fatal stabbing of a Hasidic yeshiva student, tensions erupted between the Jewish and Black communities in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. In the riots that ensued, more than 200 people were injured. Property damage was extensive. Jewish leaders…
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News Brooklyn Botanic Garden takes main role in latest Crown Heights gentrification clash
Adrian Benepe, the president and CEO of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, acknowledged during a Wednesday night virtual meeting with supporters that he was coming to them with an unusual request. “We are really going against precedent,” he said. “I’m not aware of a single other cultural institution on city property that has ever taken as…
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Fast Forward Watch: NYPD tries to shut down Sukkot street party in Crown Heights
The NYPD clashed with Orthodox Jews last night when the officers came to break up a big Sukkot gathering in Crown Heights, a video shared on Twitter showed. before pic.twitter.com/yjFTPYFzuu — Paul Lupario (@paulloops) October 6, 2020 In another video taken earlier in the night, hundreds could be seen celebrating the Sukkot holiday by dancing…
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News Decades after the riots, Crown Heights’ anger is not what you think
Jewish Crown Heights residents remember microscopic details about the riots of 1991 — 29 years ago, on Wednesday. They recall the acronyms used to differentiate between the different types of ambulances that served the victims of the car crash that started it all. They remember the ins and outs of the court cases for one…
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