PH or CH, what are the real dividing streets?

Subject: Re: PH or CH, what are the real dividing streets?

pnlop wrote: ...it's just that it seems that newbies are being duped.

mr. met wrote: i live on bedford and bergen and the broker i worked with told me it was prospect heights

The neighborhood name Crown Heights has been subject to many interpretations regarding location and boundaries. Based on a survey conducted by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1978, the team delineated Crown Heights as being the section bound on the north by Atlantic Avenue, on the south by Empire Boulevard, on the southeast by East New York Avenue and on the west by Washington Avenue

Subject: Re: The Encyclopedia

prospectus wrote: That sounds fascinating—for all of us who don't have a copy, what does the Encyclopedia say?

Prospect Heights. Neighborhood in Northwestern Brooklyn, lying along the northern edge of Prospect Park and bounded to the north by Atlantic Avenue, to the east by Washington Avenue, to the south by Eastern Parkway (which begins in the neighborhood at Grand Army Plaza), and to the west by Flatbush Avenue. It was developed after Prospect Park was completed in the 1870s. The population consisted mostly of middle-class Italians, Irish and Jews until after the Second World War, when it became predominantly black. Eventually many buildings were abandoned and the neighborhood declined, and during the 1960s Washington Avenue was the site of severe race riots and arson that destroyed many buildings. In the mid 1980s the city sold off clusters of abandoned buildings to encourage the development of middle-income housing. A wave of speculation resulted, and during teh next eight years almost a third of the neighborhood's housing was renovated, becoming unaffordable for most residents, many of whom were forced from their homes by rising prices. The middle class grew, attracted by relatively inexpensive condominiums and cooperatives, and by the proximity of the neighborhood to Park Slope, Prospect Park and Manhattan. Most of the immigrants who settled in Prospect Heights during the 1980s were from the Carribean, especially from Jamaica, Haiti, Guyana and to a lesser extent from Trinidad and Tobago, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, and Panama. The population in the mid 1990s included working-class and middle-class homeowners and low-income renters and was largely black, with some whites, West Indians, and Latin Americans. Along Eastern Parkway stand the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and teh Brooklyn Public Library; the streets are lined with brownstones and townhouses built at the turn of the century, along with small apartment buildings.