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What Was That Marching Band on Kingston?

CrownHeights.info was inundated with emails and phone calls, all wondering what was the mid-afternoon marching band on Kingston Avenue all about. Our photographer happened to wonder the same thing.

Turns out they are all part of the elite marching band of the Medgar Evers High School – H.S. 590 located on Carroll and Nostrand. One of the organizers told us that once the weather gets nice the group tried to get out and practice as much as they can.

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32 Comments

  • something right

    believe it or not..saw them today and really enjoyed it!! At least some are off the streets and doing something right!

  • Vayehi rov b-oretz - rov in der erd

    Let him be the rov of their crown heights community. They won’t require a smicha.

  • Mendy Hecht

    Hate to sound racist here, but it’s a pleasure to see a group of young black men and women doing something constructive and beneficial for themselves and the community instead of the not-infrequent wild behavior that only scares the Jewish community and furthers mistrust and stereotyping. How about compulsory marching-band membership for first-time petty offenders instead of prison or community service? :) I’d love to see these kids forced by the courts to put in 500 hours of music practice on our streets–it just might do them some good. (Plus the neighborhood would get free entertainment.)

  • Bright Side

    At least they are not on drugs, out robbing people, or looting. Good for them!!!

  • reuven

    #1- ur comment about “them” is waaaaay outa place.

    hope in ur next life ur one of “THEM” and people talk crap on u……naw, better ur kids have crap wrong witgh them and U have to deal with it. Ya Crapper….

  • Concerned Resident

    That’s the ONLY kind of beat that should exist in Crown Heights! Pump it!

  • boom boom da boom

    I love a marching band! Can they please make some more public appearances? I missed this one.

    #3..Get a life. We need to enjoy ours, you’re spoiling something nice.

  • your negative comments

    BS”D
    what is the point of the comments section?
    it is not supposed to avail people the cowardice to vent their negative emotions behind the anon identity of the internet, bc guess what, it is all the same to Hashem.
    Your negative comments are not welcome.

  • WHO, WHO Can Be The ROV

    yeah and our community is so dependent on a smicha why dont you just let a bachur from 770 be tho rov they probably have smicha i am sure they know their basar ve halave as well as shabos

  • Amazing!

    They truly are amazing i love to hear them.. Its not my first time seeing them they have come down my block before… I hope they do it again i love to hear them!

  • to comment 3

    you sound very educated by ur high yiddish vocabulary
    but like a very nieve and foolish person for posting a comment on a crown heights web site that will only bring arguments and polotics

  • Nice

    I thought it was very nice, maybe we can ask them to play some “March” Nigunim next time.

  • Enough PC talk

    1 is right.

    And some of these kids’ mothers are the ones who are the first to complain when we make a little too much noise on SBS.

    A schvartz yohr bleibt a schvartz yohr, and my prediction is that over 50% of these kids will end up in the justice system.

  • E.Q.

    It was not amazing for the cars stuck behind them for fifteen minutes. The band leader specially stopped them to show them they were not marching correctly – heels down first – and had them practice marching in place. I personally thought it was a chutzpah and did not enjoy at all.

  • ceo

    I’m so happy for those people they look so happy, and its nice to have something like this in the neighborhood

  • To #23

    Nothing to do with PCness…Its called being a civilized human being. What would you do if you went on a website and saw someone write, ahh who cares I should just come out and say it, half these jews are going to start fraudulent businesses and rip tons of Americans out of their money

  • A Freilechen Purim

    they are coming to make noise and wake us up Purim is just aruond the corner go buy your Mishloach Manos DONT wate for Sunday

    Have an easy FAST!!!

  • Enough PC talk

    Because if they wrote that ours are all going to become crooks they would be wrong. For every crook, we produce 100 honest businessmen who help Americans get done what they have to get done easier and better. Besides, we condemn our crooks. They lionize their rapists, murderers, dealers and thieves and look to them as leaders.

    When it comes to shuchors, I have not seen any proof that they are anything else besides “memutza between chai and medaber”.

  • to # 3

    get a life , its so funny / sad that ppl here fight over the stupidist things . listen its not like u really care bout it u just want to have action etc. so shut ur trap and especcily when u dont know what ur talking about couse smicha these days meen nothing , i know braun and i know hes smarter then %95 of the ppl that do have smicha so just keep it down , thnx

  • lol

    i find all of this hilarious, if u look at it, everyone seems crazy!!!!!loosen up a little, its almost Purim!!!!:)

  • Ishai

    The candor of the community amazes me, and yet in light of its collective education and training, some of the comments are startling and disappointing.