Here's how realtors described Crown Heights in 1943

whynot_31 · June 2015

pheightsresident · June 2015

Pretty much how I describe Crown Heights today (though I peg its western border at Classon, not Franklin).

whynot_31 · June 2015

I find it interesting that the term "Crown Heights" does not appear even once.

suppleknuckles · June 2015

all the way down to lefferts? that's interesting. ive always heard that the northernmost border of Flatbush was somewhere along the middle of the botanical garden, not more south

bobmarvin · June 2015

That's true, but the analysis is of the area around Eastern Parkway straddling Crown Heights and Flatbush.

whynot_31 · June 2015

Yes, the writers seem to believe that describing the area as Eastern Parkway makes sense to their readers.

eastbloc · June 2015

It looks like Eastern Parkway didn't run up and past Atlantic back then either.

whynot_31 · June 2015

The part of EP that goes east of Ralph is technically "Eastern Parkway Extension". I am not sure when it rec'd that designation.

EP between GAP and Ralph was finished in 1874.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/eastern-parkway/history

ehgee · June 2015

Rents and housing prices work pretty differently now— many of those 2-families in southern Crown Heights were the most expensive then, and seem to be some of the better deals in the neighborhood today.

It's also interesting that the area around Grant Square is already tending toward low-income— it was clearly quite wealthy when first built, though that was probably 20-40 years before this map was made. I guess the rich people already required garages by then? And I suppose 30-40 year old architecture is too new to be historic and too old to be fashionable.

Here's how realtors described Crown Heights in 1943

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