link: the NYT wrote about Crown Heights last week
“These are two divergent snapshots of a remarkably refashioned commercial strip that 20 years ago was marred by drug dealers and dilapidated storefronts in a neighborhood torn apart by racial and religious violence.
Now Franklin Avenue is the epicenter of a renaissance, the next subway stop on Brooklyn’s gentrification express. But unlike the transformation in Park Slope or Williamsburg, this story is different — and far more complicated — because it is set on scarred earth.”