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dailyheights
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Unease Lingers Amid a Rebirth in Crown Heights

Franklin Avenue, once peppered with drug dealers and run-down properties, is the center of a renaissance in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.

Young Brooklynites gather on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, often waiting an hour on weekends to get into Barboncino, a stylish and spacious four-month-old pizza restaurant named for a toy poodle. But up the block at JamRock Kitchen, a narrow Jamaican take-out place catering to the neighborhood’s dwindling Caribbean population, business has been sporadic since it opened four years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/nyregion/in-crown-heights-a-renaissance-with-unease.html

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# Posted 1 yr ago
whynot_31
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Eastbloc and I are already discussing it here:

http://brooklynian.com/forum/crown-heights-and-prospect-lefferts-gardens/crown-heights-northcarroll-gardens-ii#post-750396

For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor.

# Posted 1 yr ago
dailyheights
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You guys and your threads! I can't keep up.

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