Video: 22 Years After Riots, a Changed Neighborhood

Twenty-two years after the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, what was once a scene of turbulence and violence has become a tableau of peace and diversity.

Gabe Pressman reports for NBC New York.

CrownHeights.info reported extensively on the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots in August, 2011, click here, here and here to read more.

10 Comments

  • Sounds like a tabloid article

    ‘Peace and Diversity’? Tell that to our Jewish neighbors who have been assaulted, robbed, harrassed etc consistently over the past years by people who do not seem to be improving as human beings over time. The writer also parallels the Jewish people with the Blacks as equal participants in the riots, untruthfully citing clashes between the two. Well, when one party is going wild and acting like animals, having a great time destroying vandalizing and murdering, while the other party tries to avoid them and their violence as best as possible, you have to be ignorant or extremely unethical (which I believe applies here) to try to publicize this as an equal effort.

  • only Chasdei Hashem makes it happen

    There is daily robberies, beatings up, groping of women… the black youth are still hiding and doing their dirty deeds whenever there is a safe opening!! Keep vigilant. Hakaras Hatov goes mainly to Shomrim and the NYPD who have made a substantial presence at street corners… especially a 24 – 7 command bus at Kingston and Eastern Parkway.

  • Two Hours

    Someone should have shown this video to the police officers who, as reported on this site, made a Jewish driver wait 2 hours for medical assistance after accidentally running over a Black teen and then striking a tree.

  • It could happen again!!!!

    It just takes a few thugs from the Linden or back roads of Atlantic Avenue area to march up Kingston again.

  • lefferts park

    fine example of peace and harmony between blacks and jews. the black youth there are exceptional and play together basketball.

  • Now I understand

    The Rambam says that, acording to the Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach, if a goy steals, you know what the penalty is? Misa!
    I always wondered, isn’t that too harsh, just for stealing?! But now I see, from what’s happening in Crown Heights and elsewhere, that if they don’t have this dread in the back of their minds, crime will get out of hand like it is now – and the future?!

    Jail time?! HA, goes without saying that it’s kind of a joke.