Crown Heights North
Neighborhood Intelligence

Crown Heights North is Brooklyn Community District 8, occupying the northern half of the broader Crown Heights area between Eastern Parkway and Atlantic Avenue. The district is a cultural crossroads: it is home to a large Caribbean-American community—particularly Haitian and Jamaican—and a significant Hasidic Jewish community centered around the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters on Eastern Parkway. The West Indian American Day Carnival, held along Eastern Parkway each Labor Day, is one of the largest cultural events in the United States.

The neighborhood's housing stock is predominantly pre-war limestone and brownstone rowhouses and apartment buildings, with significant NYCHA developments along the northern edge near Atlantic Avenue. Eastern Parkway, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, bisects the district and leads to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Grand Army Plaza to the west. The district has seen increasing development pressure as gentrification spreads from adjacent Park Slope and Prospect Heights.