After Riots, Jews Stayed in Crown Heights
Forward
The most enduring lesson of the Crown Heights riots is that the Jews did not abandon the neighborhood after the violence.
On the morning of July 22, 1966, The New York Times pushed aside its coverage of the Vietnam War and the Gemini 10 space flight mission to devote its lead story to a riot that had struck the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York the previous night. Next to the article appeared a photo of a garbage can crashing through a butcher shop’s window. On the remaining shards of glass were the Hebrew letters for the word “kosher.”
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