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The Brooklyn Collection presents a selection of resources on Crown Heights, home to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and the West Indian Carnival.
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Located in Crown Heights, this was the world's first museum catering specifically to children.
brooklyn.net
WPA Guide to New York City (1939) entry on Crown Heights
Community Board 2, Brooklyn (Crown Heights) Homepage
Department of City Planning’s Brooklyn Community District 8 (Crown Heights)
Brooklyn Eagle, September 28, 1900
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 27, 1900
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 26, 1877
Brooklyn Eagle, December 21, 1890
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 10, 1891
Crown Heights : Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn riot
Shapiro, Edward S.
Explores how shifting demographics and socioeconomic conditions set the stage for the 1991 riot.
Fires in the mirror : Crown Heights, Brooklyn and other identities
Anna Deavere Smith
A play about race relations between the African-American and Jewish communities of Crown Heights. Includes a foreword written by Cornel West.
My name is Asher Lev
Potok, Chaim
Set largely in Crown Heights, this tells of a young man's conflicted choice between leading a secular life as an artist or a religious life as a Hasidic Jew.
North Crown Heights community district 8, Brooklyn
David Daykin
Prepared for the City of New York Human Resources Administration, this is a socioeconomic survey of North Crown Heights.
Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights
Goldschmidt, Henry
A study of the Orthodox Jewish community of Crown Heights and its relations with its African-American neighborhoods.
The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn c.2004
Kenneth Jackson and John Manbeck
An invaluable introduction to Brooklyn’s many neighborhoods, with an illustrated chapter on each, including Crown Heights. Includes a map, a neighborhood profile and neighborhood facts.
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