New development transforming Classon Avenue, Crown Heights
New development is pushing the eastern boundary of Prospect Heights beyond its city-designated border of Washington Avenue and solidly into what has traditionally been thought of as Crown Heights.
Google has moved the Prospect Heights border one block east to the eastern side of Classon Avenue, while New York Magazine took the neighborhood’s border an additional block east and expanded it to include Franklin Avenue between Eastern Parkway and Sterling Place. Some organizations, including prominent real estate agencies, have pushed the border between Crown Heights and Prospect Heights even farther east to include Bedford Avenue.
But it doesn’t matter which neighborhood claims Classon Avenue (between Eastern Parkway and Atlantic Avenue); what matters is the significant and exciting developments that are transforming this corridor: