Crown Heights

NYC Radicals threaten to 'flood' Crown Heights and 'rise up' against Chabad

Police officers headed off an anti-Zionist demonstration that made the Jewish neighborhood its intended destination.

  Police block pro-Palestinian supporters from entering a neighborhood with a large Orthodox Jewish population on April 28, 2025, in Brooklyn.
RABBI MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON of Lubavitch at a Lag Ba’omer parade in Brooklyn, 1987.

New York street co-named after Chabad's Lubavitcher Rebbe

 A New York City Police (NYPD) vehicle drives in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, US.

Two Hassidic men assaulted in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

 Screenshot of CCTV footage posted by Shomrim CH showing attempted kidnapping, 9/11/2024

Man arrested for attempted kidnapping of Jewish boy was family's neighbour


Masked man attempts to kidnap Orthodox Jewish boy in Crown Heights

The footage shows the masked man attempting to grab the child and carry him away, before the father pulls the child back and pushes the man off.

 Screenshot of CCTV footage posted by Shomrim CH showing attempted kidnapping, 9/11/2024

Attacker slashes Jewish man's face in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

The Crown Heights volunteer emergency services team, Shmira, is assisting the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in ensuring the attacker is apprehended.

 A New York City Police (NYPD) vehicle drives on the corner where a 13-year-old boy was found after being shot and killed, in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, US, March 1, 2024.

Pro-Palestinian stabber charged with hate crime after attack on NY Jewish man

Vincent Sumpter has been charged with eight felonies, including assault as a hate crime, for the incident, according to an arrest report.

Video shared by Crown Heights Shmira, a neighborhood watch group, shows a stabbing in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, early on Aug. 10, 2024.

Jewish man stabbed near Chabad HQ by man shouting 'Free Palestine'

The perpetrator, reportedly a black male in his early 20s, asked the victim, "Do you want to die?" before stabbing him.

 A NYPD officer stands guard near the Penn Station where streets have been closed following an early morning shooting in Manhattan New York, November 9, 2015.

The end of an era: The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s last blessing three decades ago

'On that Sunday afternoon, as he was handing me a dollar, I would end up posing the very last question for Rabbi Schneerson to answer'.

RABBI MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON of Lubavitch at a Lag Ba’omer parade in Brooklyn, 1987.

NYPD arrest man who berated, beat Jewish man with umbrella

New York City has been subject to the global wave of antisemitic incidents in the wake of the October 7 massacre in Israel.

 A NYPD officer stands guard near the Penn Station where streets have been closed following an early morning shooting in Manhattan New York, November 9, 2015.

Pro-Palestinian protesters call for ceasefire at Grand Central Terminal

The demonstration, organized by the anti-Zionist organization Jewish Voice for Peace, was but one of many anti-Israel protests in NYC in the past week.

 A man walks in silhouette at Grand Central Station in New York City, US, September 18, 2023.

Performing Hasidic music, these women are transcending gender and the Orthodox-liberal divide

The often wordless songs are traditionally sung exclusively by men, and are central to the synagogue experience — itself a primarily male domain in the Orthodox tradition. 

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Jewish man stabbed in Crown Heights, New York attack on Shabbat

Authorities are currently investigating the stabbing of a Chabad Jewish man in Crown Heights, New York as a possible hate crime.

On the streets of Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood

Reuben Baron, Jewish co-author of most widely cited psychology paper dies at 86

His paper, “The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research,” remains the most cited paper in the history of psychology.

Yahrzeit candle

Brooklyn Hasidic man gang beaten in front of five-year-old son

A Hasidic man was violently beaten by three men in Brooklyn following parking altercation. The victim’s five-year-old son was in the car when his father was attacked.

On the streets of Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood