Crown Heights Is Back On The Revel Map, The Reason It Was Temporarily Removed Was Flooding

by CrownHeights.info

Crown Heights “Revelers” were furious Erev Yom Tov after they discovered that Revel had removed Crown Heights from its parking map, effectively stopping them from using the popular ride share in the area. The map change was reverted over Yom Tov and the reason for the temporary change revealed, it was an issue of flooding.

CrownHeights.info reported on the change removing Crown Heights from the map just hours before Yom Tov, initially bringing up questions on motive, as the temporarily removed boundaries appeared uncomfortably close to the boundaries of Jewish Crown Heights.

Aware of the outrage, Revel reached out to CrownHeights.info to explain the change.

“Regarding the story on Revel mopeds, the service area was temporarily adjusted during the severe weather based on official flood maps,” a representative from Revel said to CrownHeights.info. “The service area returned to its previous coverage as of 1pm yesterday.”

In conversation with CrownHeights.info, the Revel representative also explained their decision on the boundary change, pointing out that they used Google Flood Map and cross referenced that with City-identified flood zones as a baseline for their decision, as well as using their company’s internal data.

While the question as to why the highest point in Brooklyn would be considered as “inside” the flood zone remains slightly confusing, the decision was obviously not targeting the Crown Heights Jewish community.

A previous removal of Crown Heights from the Revel Map took place in 2022, but after a backlash and petition, Revel returned it to the map.