NEIGHBORHOODS

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Thousands of people are arriving at the grave of a revered New York City rabbi to mark the 19th anniversary of his death. Rabbi Menachem Schneerson led the Chabad Lubavitch movement based in Crown Heights for more than 40 years. … Full Article

The City University of New York (CUNY) is in too much of a rush to find the next president of Medgar Evers College and isn’t casting a wide enough net to attract a sufficient number of qualified candidates, a group of lawmakers charged. … Full Article

The Bishop on Bedford, a Bed-Stuy gallery opened by artists and Pratt graduate school classmates  … Full Article

A formal public review of a proposal to rezone 55-blocks of the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn is now underway following the Department of City Planning’s certification of the plan on March 18. … Full Article

This month, state Senator Kevin Parker (D-Park Slope/Flatbush) proposed a legislative package consisting of six bills that will significantly enhance services to individuals affected by autism.   … Full Article

What began as a school project soon turned into The Bishop – a new gallery and project space in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, opened just last month by co-directors Jackie Cantwell and Molly Myer. … Full Article

Richie Havens, the Brooklyn-born folk and rock singer-songwriter who was best known for his performance at Woodstock in 1969, where he sang “Freedom,” has died at 72.

His family said in a statement that Havens died Monday of a heart attack. … Full Article

Police are seeking a three-year-old boy and his father who allgedly kidnapped the boy from a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment on Tuesday, April 16. … Full Article

AP journalist and author Jonathan M. … Full Article

All of this may be old hat to Brooklynites, where "gentrification" has been moving with a seeming inevitability since the 1970s, but cities across America — as well as additional Brooklyn neighborhoods —  are now embracing upscale change, as the Associated Press re … Full Article