Crown Heights History: Yeshiva of Crown Heights, 310 Crown Street

This series on Crown Heights History has been compiled by Instagram account @crownheightshistory, a born and raised Crown Heightser, and shows some of the ongoing research taking place.

There’s an interesting history to this property. Started off as a Co-Ed school catering to the orthodox community in Crown Heights. Built in the 1920s and then expanded over the years. Not sure why that picture is included on the book perhaps the building was much smaller before it was expanded into a school.

In the 1960s they built a new wing to their building in order to facilitate the growing number of students, but a few short years later everyone evacuated the neighborhood.

The city wanted to lease the building due to the lack of room at PS 161 next door, but Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky persuaded the Yeshiva of Crown Heights to sell the building to Beis Rivka for a fraction of its value and for only as much as it would cost them to build on Ave U which is a school with the same name that’s open until today.

Rabbi Bogomilsky became the Rabbi for life at the synagogue which due to its size is also used as a school auditorium during the week.

From the Birds Eye view you’ll notice that Clove road continues into the block where Beis Rivka is today which explains the oddly shaped property line.

The building houses organizational history as well as personal meaning for many students of Crown Heights who attended that school.

To be continued….