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Introducing: Love Thy Neighbor
February 10, 2022
- 03:22
Thirty years ago, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, a car accident set off four days of unrest. Two people died. Dozens...
Episode 1: All Good
February 15, 2022
- 30:30
It’s August 2020 in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Collier Meyerson is at a retirement party for an NYPD officer. Listening...
Episode 2: Coming to America
February 22, 2022
- 39:14
How did Chabad-Lubavitchers and Caribbeans end up buying homes and settling in Crown Heights? Collier Meyerson goes back to the first...
About The Show
Thirty years ago, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, a car accident set off four days of unrest. Two people died. Dozens were injured. Hundreds were arrested. In this Pineapple Street Studios series, journalist Collier Meyerson explores what came to be known as the “Crown Heights Riot.” It’s a story about immigration, New York City’s first Black mayor, the rise of Rudy Giuliani, and the Lubavitch Jewish and Caribbean-American communities sitting at the center of it all. To Meyerson, the Crown Heights Riot can help us unlock and understand so many of our modern dilemmas: from police violence and racism to the persistence of antisemitism.
More Episodes
Introducing: Love Thy Neighbor
February 10, 2022
- 03:22
Thirty years ago, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, a car accident set off four days of unrest. Two people died. Dozens...
Episode 1: All Good
February 15, 2022
- 30:30
It’s August 2020 in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Collier Meyerson is at a retirement party for an NYPD officer. Listening...
Episode 2: Coming to America
February 22, 2022
- 39:14
How did Chabad-Lubavitchers and Caribbeans end up buying homes and settling in Crown Heights? Collier Meyerson goes back to the first...
Episode 3: Things Fall Apart
March 1, 2022
- 28:57
As more and more white people leave New York City for the suburbs, the Chabad-Lubavitchers and Caribbean-Americans remain in Crown...
Episode 4: Four Days in August
March 8, 2022
- 42:39
It’s a warm evening in August 1991. Two Guyanese children are playing on the sidewalk when a car in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s motorcade...
Episode 5: Sound of da Police
March 15, 2022
- 38:30
After four days of unrest, the energy in Crown Heights seems to have calmed. Still, residents are eager to hold someone responsible for...