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Leaders Work To Prevent Chaos That Once Claimed Streets Of Crown Heights

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Crown Heights used to be synonymous for tensions between blacks and Jews. In the following Brooklyn, Then & Now report, NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez looks back at the days when those tensions came to a boiling point, and how community leaders hope a new approach will make such confrontations a thing of the past.

The wounds were still raw in 1992, and the anger of blacks and Jews in Crown Heights surfaced once again.

Hasidic Jews took to the streets in protest after the acquittal of Lemerick Nelson in his first trial for the death of Yankel Rosenbaum. There were random fights, and a march over the bridge. Nelson was the only one arrested in Rosenbaum’s stabbing death in the riots the summer before.