Crown Heights News

The owner of Miriam Restaurant in Park Slope has started offering etiquette classes for public school kids from Crown Heights, Brownsville, and East Flatbush.

If you're on the hunt for a taste of the shtetl in New York City, there's no place better than the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights.

On a Sunday evening in early June, thousands of Hasidic men in long coats and black hats braved the heat to attend two outdoor anti-Internet asifas organized by leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Satmar community of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y. Women were forbidden, but the real temptation for the men was already in their laps, where they covertly ... (more)

The Brooklyn man whose girlfriend shot him in the face loves her so much, he testified in her defense yesterday.

The storm system -- which is moving east at 30 mph -- is expected to be at Jersey City at 3:15 p.m., at Battery Park at 3:20, the lower east side at 3:25, near Crown Heights by 3:30, Canarsie by 3:35 and Forest Hills at 3:45, according to a Special Weather Statement issued by the NWS.

It comes as no surprise that controversy would ride the coattails of the news yesterday that Attorney General Eric Holder may suggest a federal monitor over the NYPD should stop-and-frisk be deemed unconstitutional in Floyd v.

It comes as no surprise that controversy would ride the coattails of the news yesterday that Attorney General Eric Holder may suggest a federal monitor over the NYPD should stop-and-frisk be deemed unconstitutional in Floyd v.

A man riding a skateboard was killed in Brooklyn early Thursday when police say he crashed into the back of an MTA bus.

Randolph Costa says he's still too enamored of his girlfriend to testify against her at her Brooklyn criminal trial - although she allegedly put a bullet in his head during an argument over money.

A measles outbreak hitting the Orthodox Jewish enclaves of Borough Park and Williamsburg - infecting 55 individuals this year to date - has health officials stepping up outreach efforts with local health providers and religious schools.

The suspect followed the victim into an elevator at 2930 W. 30th St. at about 4 p.m. on June 6, cops said.

In Israel last week for the wedding of his grandson Shmaya Krinsky of Crown Heights, New York, to Rivkah Stosgofsky of Kiryat Gat, was Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Krinsky, who was the chief spokesman for the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and sole executor of the rebbe's will.

A preschool classroom at Lamplighters Yeshivah in Crown Heights. Unlike many of the 84,000 other Jewish parochial students in Brooklyn, students at Lamplighters learn religious and secular subjects side by side.

Matthew Aaron Goodman's debut novel Hold Love Strong was published in 2010; he's also a professor at Hunter College and the coordinator of the New York Juvenile Justice Initiative, which advocates for reform of the youth-court system.

The last stop on the 4 train - where Utica Ave. crosses Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn - is a Caribbean stronghold, a neighborhood laced with brightly colored restaurants and bake shops serving this largely West Indian nabe.

When you think of the great Brooklyn rappers of the 1990s, a few obvious names jump to mind - Jay-Z famously grew up in the Marcy Houses in Bed-Stuy.

Education advocates fed up with a lack of English, math and science in some Jewish parochial schools have taken their frustration to the street - or, more accurately, to a huge billboard overhanging the BQE.

As one raised in an atheist household, I don't pay much attention to religious issues, and when I ran across this item I was doubly doubtful: It's about religion, and the religion is Orthodox Judaism.

It would appear Al Sharpton has turned over a new fig leaf these days. He now wants people who accuse others of wrongdoing to actually provide evidence.

There have been outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases among ultra-orthodox Jewish communities in Israel, the UK, and the US This has lead some naive US anti-vaccination commentators to have the belief that it is against Jewish law or custom to recieve vaccines.