New York Times article on Rebirth of Crown Heights...

Unease Lingers Amid a Rebirth in Crown Heights

Franklin Avenue, once peppered with drug dealers and run-down properties, is the center of a renaissance in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

Young Brooklynites gather on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, often waiting an hour on weekends to get into Barboncino, a stylish and spacious four-month-old pizza restaurant named for a toy poodle. But up the block at JamRock Kitchen, a narrow Jamaican take-out place catering to the neighborhood’s dwindling Caribbean population, business has been sporadic since it opened four years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/nyregion/in-crown-heights-a-renaissance-with-unease.html

Eastbloc and I are already discussing it here:

http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/topic/crown-heights-northcarroll-gardens-ii#post-750396

You guys and your threads! I can't keep up.