Crown Heights- Located in the Central portion of NYC borough of Brooklyn

Originally, the area was known as Crow Hill.  It was a succession of Hills running East and West from Utica Ave to Classon Ave, and South to Empire Blvd and New York Ave. 

The name was when Crown Street was cut in 1916. It's under the jurisdiction of two precincts of New York City Police Department.

Crown Height had begun as a posh residential neighborhood, a "bedroom" for Manhattan's growing bourgeois class. The area benefited by having it's rapid transit in a subway configuration in contrast to many other Brooklyn neighborhood that had elevated lines.Conversion to a commuter town also included tearing down the 19th Century Kings County Penitentiary at Carroll St and Nostrand Ave.

In the early 1900's, upper class residences including characteristic brownstone buildings, we're elevated along Eastern Parkway.  Away from Eastern Parkway were a mixture of lower middle-class residences. The development peaked in the 1920's

Before the World War II, Crown Height was among New York City's premier neighborhoods, with tree-lined Streets, array of cultural institution and parks and numerous fraternal, social and community organization. 

Crown Height is home to:

1. Brooklyn Botanical Garden: http://www.bbg.org/?gclid=CLP1t8Lfhb4CFYqhOgod13wA
2. Brooklyn Public Library: http://www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/
3. Jewish Children Museum: http://www.jcm.museum/
4. Brooklyn Children's Museum:  http://www.brooklynkids.org/                

Crown Heights was home to the famous:

1. Clive Davis-Music Industry Executive
2. Buckshot-Rapper
3. Dr. Susan Mckinney Stewart-First African American woman to earn a medical degree in New York City
4. Beverly Sills-Opera Singer and administrator, among others.                                                                                                                                                                                                      
   
                                                                                                                                                                                      

   

   Brooklyn Botanic Garden

                                              

   

   Brooklyn Public Library

                                        

   

   Brooklyn Museum