Crown Heights is a Caribbean and Jewish residential neighborhood in central Brooklyn.
It’s the home of the New York Carnival and West Indian Day Parade, Panamanian Parade. Cultural venues include the Weeksville Heritage Center and Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
The Caribbean food is really good.
Latin Culture in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
New York Carnival Features Soca and Dancehall Concerts, Junior Carnival, Steel Panorama, J’Ouvert, and the West Indian Day Parade
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
EASTERN AVENUE, Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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J’ouvert NYC 2024 is New York Carnival’s Daybreak Party and J’ouvert Parade
CROWN HEIGHTS & PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn 🇹🇹
New York Junior Carnival Parade 2024 Youth Fest is a Fun Teaching Moment
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇹🇹
West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn on Labor Day Celebrates Evolution as the Climax of New York Carnival
EASTERN PARKWAY, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇹🇹 + 🇩🇲 🇬🇩 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🇰🇳 🇻🇨
In the Valley of Coming Forth is an Afrofuturist Funk Ritual Play with Cosplay and a DJ After Party at Weeksville Heritage Center
WEEKSVILLE HERITAGE CENTER, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇺🇸 🇭🇹
Panamanian Independence Day
LITTLE PANAMA, Crown Heights, Brooklyn 🇵🇦
Panama Separation Day Celebrates the Founding of the Republic of Panama
LITTLE PANAMA in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Friday, November 3, 2023
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NYC J’ouvert 2022 is Back in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Monday, September 5, 2022
CROWN HEIGHTS
Brooklyn
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NYC Dance Week 2018 ~ 10 days FREE dance, fitness & wellness classes
June 14 – 23, 2018
October 2022
The 27th Panamanian Parade NYC 2022 (Desfile Panameño) marches through Crown Heights, Brooklyn, from Bergen St down Franklin Ave, across President Street to the Panamanian Street Fair on Classon Avenue and Union Street on Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 12noon. 🇵🇦
WeeksVille was a Historic Free Black Community
Weeksville was one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America.
It was founded by African American longshoreman James Weeks in 1838 as part of an effort to establish citizenship by owning land. To be eligible to vote in those days, non-white men had to own land and pay taxes on it.
This once vibrant community slowly faded and was forgotten as the city grew. It was only rediscovered in 1968. Four homes were found on Bergen St. They are now known as the Hunterfly Road Houses.
The Weeksville Heritage Center preserves the neighborhood’s history.
[Editor: Always heard about Weeksville, but never realized it’s right in the middle of Brooklyn. There is so much history right under our feet]
Crown Heights rocks!