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From left to right: Jerry Kwabena Kansis, Ghanian/African Diaspora Leader; Atiba T. Edwards, President & CEO Brooklyn Children’s Museum; Tiffany Joy Murchison, founder of TJM Media; Lishawn Alexander, founder of Lishawn’s Cupcakes and Lishawn’s Consulting; and Randy Peers, President and CEO of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.Photos: Colin Williams

Black History celebration in Weeksville honors four exceptional Brooklynites

February 23 | Special from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

CROWN HEIGHTS — This week, the Brooklyn Chamber hosted an inspiring evening in recognition of its annual Black History Celebration at the Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights. The signature event recognized the outstanding achievements of four noteworthy Brooklyn residents at the historic site honoring the Black community. Each honoree and sponsor of the Brooklyn […]

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Community-inspired affordable housing project in Crown Heights in limbo at City Council

January 25 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff

CROWN HEIGHTS – We need affordable housing, and we need it now. Why wait? Such was the refrain emphasized by a range of Crown Heights residents at yesterday’s City Council’s hearing held by the Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises as it considered a proposed rezoning in the final step of the City’s standardized Uniform Land […]

A secret tunnel inside a Crown Heights synagogue

Secret tunnel in Brooklyn synagogue leads to brawl between police and worshippers

January 9 | Jake Offenhartz, Associated Press

CROWN HEIGHTS — A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a tunnel secretly dug into the side of a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway. The discovery of the tunnel at the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights […]