Crown Heights News

Trailing praise and controversy as it comes off the festival circuit onto neighborhood screens, Yoav Shamir's documentary "Defamation" offers viewers a first-person excursion into the subject of anti-Semitism: a phenomenon the filmmaker often hears about, he says, but doesn't quite know why, since as an Israeli he's never experienced it.

When I first moved to NYC, I lived in the Bronx, near relatives. Before moving to Brooklyn, I used to visit my friend, a Pratt student, who over the course of four years lived all over Clinton Hill and Fort Greene.

Richard Jacobs, senior rabbi of Westchester Reform Temple, is being honored for his public service in the community by the New York Board of Rabbis.

How much did Moishy see? How much does Moishy remember? The questions haunted me, and I suspect many of the other 2,000 guests who gathered last Wednesday night in the party tent at Kfar Chabad.

Councilman Al Vann recently praised residents of his district for their support of Rose Etienne, the Crown Heights mother who lost her husband and two sons in a fire last Wednesday.

Okay, now for something completely different; Hasidic hip-hop. Really. A Hasidic Jewish musician from Crown Heights Brooklyn, Matisyahu melds hip-hop, reggae and rock in ways you can't even imagine, and it should have been done long ago.

Construction of a brand new rental apartment building in Crown Heights will go forward, thanks to a $4.9-million construction loan from the Community Preservation Corp.

It's not quite at the level of Paradou owner Vadim Ponorovsky versus his staff , but the Times detects some tension from two new coffee shops on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights.

A fast-moving fire that may have been sparked by incense swept through the top floor of a six-story apartment building in Brooklyn on Wednesday, killing a man and his two small children, fire officials said.

New York - It took Brooklyn firefighters as long as eight minutes yesterday to arrive at a blaze that killed two toddlers and their dad - and it was the second time in two weeks the Bravest lost precious time by being sent to the wrong location.

The Pulp and the Bean, above, on Franklin Avenue, in Brooklyn, is owned by a man whose family has a history in the neighborhood.

Firefighters called to a deadly blaze in Brooklyn on Wednesday were sent to the wrong address raising concerns about the new 9/11 dispatch system.

Rose-Daniel Etienne-Jean , who lost two sons and boyfriend, is comforted by aunts Marie Joseph & Gislene Pierre.

NEW YORK, NY November 20, 2009 a 'Elected officials and community leaders in Brooklyn are rallying around the family of three victims in Wednesday's Crown Heights fire.

There was debate Thursday over a new fire dispatch system after a father and two boys died in a Crown Heights blaze apparently sparked by burning incense.

Fire investigators believe a fire that killed two toddlers and their father may have been started by burning incense in a bedroom.

Stephen Cassidy of the Uniformed Firefighters Association says the deaths caused by a deadly fire in Crown Heights on Wednesday could have been prevented.

Shaking as two relatives helped her onto a sofa, Rose Danielle Etienne, 26, sobbed Thursday afternoon as she spoke of a fire that had swept through her apartment in Brooklyn the day before, killing her longtime companion and their two young sons.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 7:08 am US/Eastern Reporting Magee Hickey NEW YORK 1 of 1 Two children and an adult were killed after a fire broke out in a 4-story building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Nov.

A fire inspector surveys the damage after a deadly fire ripped through a Brooklyn apartment Wednesday.