Talk:Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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This page mostly concerns itself with a brief period in the history of Crown Heights.
- That is of course no reason to remove it. Dysprosia 04:23, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- How about reformatting this page to discuss the neighborhood and briefly mentioning the riots while providing a link to Crown Heights Riot? Atheistrabbi 7 July 2005 14:00 (UTC)
[edit] West Indian
The term West Indian is not regarded highly by many of Caribbean descent, so why use it? 17:40, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
I grew up in Crown Heights, that is what the parade is called.
[edit] Borders of Crown Heights
-- the generally accepted Western border of Crown Heights North of Eastern Parkway has moved with time, first towards the West (as far as Vanderbilt, or all the way to Flatbush) and more recently back towards the East (some claim as far as Bedford, others say Classon, others say Washington). It really depends on whom you ask or what decade you're talking about, as there's no official or natural boundary. -- 01Apr07.
I'm not so sure that Bedford is the western border. I'd consider Washington, or even Flatbush Avenue, which both use the 11225 zip code (within the other borders).
Sometimesdee 16:16, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Crown Heights is much furtehr east than that. It doesn't really start until Bedford Avenue. Washington Avenue is still wholy within Prospect Heights.
The Encyclopedia of the City of New York (Columbia University Press) lists Washington Avenue as the border between Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. This is the definitive guide to NYC. All boundaries to the east of Washington are made up by real estate brokers trying to pass off Crown Heights apartments as being located in Prospect Heights.
Speaking of renaming... can we just call [Crown Heights] + [Prospect Heights] = "Museum Heights" and be done with it? ;)
