Dinner Shuts Down Kingston Avenue
Tonight the Jewish Children’s Museums will be hosting their 8th annual dinner. At the event police commissioner Raymond Kelley will be honored.
After receiving multiple emails and phone calls asking why tents were being set up on Kingston and Union CrownHeights.info reached out to the Museum and Sholom Ber Baumgarten informed us that the tents are part of the evenings dinner
“We will be hosting a sit down dinner on Kingston” Baumgarten said, adding that only a small part of the dinner will take place inside the Museums’ building itself.
Kingston Avenue will remain closed from President Street though Eastern Parkway until at least 10:30pm. The NYPD is diverting all avenue traffic to New York Avenue, where they cleared parked cars to allow better traffic flow.
very nice
when i saw the rain today, i knew that hashem was watching us.
i cant say i am disappointed that it is raining.
dinner in the rain?
fun fun!
why??
why cant it be done in the museum? why block off streets for no good reason?
Anonymous
Do this for the Kinus Banquet!
why
why waste a street closing permit for this?
perhaps with one tent less they could pay some of the salarys they owe.
Anonymous
Kol Hakavod.
to # 3
Its wrong to close a street and sidewalk for a personal event
look what kind of balagan its causing on kingston and this is only for 300 people imagine if this was done for 3000 people….
Hey
Such a Chutzpah.
The entire community has to be inconvenienced on a regular Wed cause they decide to nick off the streets.
There is a boss
While it wold have been nice to give everyone notice about closings off the streets, that does not take away from the face that this is for a good thing.
Not every time a person feels inconvenienced by something that is done by another person or organisation does that mean that its no good.
Grow up and adjust to both the good and the bad that some times hits you every time you read a story online
not fair
what they could do this for some boring dinner but not for my birthday?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
deljghfg
how old are u turning 3?
srsly grow up?!?
Joe
How sweet…inconvenience many people to benefit a few…
moshe
Its so stupid !!!
Fine something better to do with the “so much monney you have”
I vote
Yes
Every person in the community can close his block for his birthday and the failing museum with leadership like this loosers should close eastern parkway every day why close Kingston
NOTICE?????????
Nobody complains about this Dinner. After all, the bigwigs & heavy hitters from OUTSIDE CH have to be treated like royalty.
But don’t the people in the museum have any brains? Don’t they have respect for us? We live here, but you didn’t think it would be a “neighborly” & decent thing to do to warn us?
Traffic is a mess and now parking is impossible. Are working people going to be allowed to walk down the street from the train or do they have to go out of their way possibly in a thunderstorm to get home?
DISGUSTING.
IF the Guest of Honor
IF the Guest of Honor
is a politician or public servant.
whats the dinner for ?
wast of time and making harder on the small people to cope
Yasher koiach
Why is everyone so bitter? NYers are inconvoenecd all the time with dignitaries coming and going etc.
This will take a maximum of 10 minutes out of your day. The equivalent of one lane being closed on the FDR or less.
The JCM is a beautiful addition to the community.
To those complaining about wast of money. This is cheaper than manhattan hotel.
I hope other orgs get this idea.
Parking was a mess
Parking was a total mess today! Why inconvenience everyone???
caused chaos and traffic
So inconvenient!! For what?
Find a big car park or empty space like opposite police station on Empire and NY ave and put up your tent, don’t inconvenience the whole neighborhood!!
No parking for anyone, I was there and saw what was going on – OUTSIDE the tent.
What's he being honored for?
More crime without police response? Police brutality against two innocent Jews in the past year? Someone enlighten me please.
they towed cars
flyers should have been sent out and posted all over the place before they did this
major inconvenience for people who had to run around looking for their towed cars and being late to apointments
A bunch of low lives
From the comments posted above, a smart person can tell that it’s not the normal mature happy people in crown heights commenting. These comments come from bored individuals, teenagers, and bitter people. Hashem should bless you all with seeing th big picture and more clarity and joy in your own lives.
to 22
I am not a bored soul.
it is upsetting to get up one morning and see see your car got towed, the main street is blocked for a full day, and for what? a diner for an organization that has forgotten its roots?
an organization that cares not about it employees? they decided to cut the cord with the local community, so we do not have to be that happy when we get the streets closed and harassed by the police who are doing it.
i wont get into the fact that they had music in sefirah, a full mixed crowd, not even attempting to get Kippas on the heads of the guests.
no wounder not ONE rov from Crown Heights showed up.
and what was the big deal to publicise this prior. oh…and BTW we in CH get very few permits for street closing a year, this non event cost us one of those.