The following bibliography is intended to provide a starting point for anyone who is interested in further researching the history of Crown Heights. It is is not a complete record of the sources used in the creation of Remembering Crown Heights. This bibliography does not include the numerous articles that were studied in the archives of The Brooklyn Eagle, The New York Times, The New York Daily News newspapers, as well as The Brownstoner website. It also does not include the staff at the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Public Library, and Weeksville Heritage Center who provided enormous support in the research phase.
Books
Bernard, Jacqueline. The Children You Gave Us: A history of 150 years of service to children. New York: New York Jewish Child Care Association of New York, 1972.
Federal Writers’ Project. The WPA guide to New York City: the Federal Writers’ Project guide to 1930s New York. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1982.
Gibson, DW. The Edge Becomes the Center: An oral history of gentrification in the twenty-first century. New York, NY: Overlook Press, 2015.
Girgenti, Richard H. A report to the Governor on the disturbances in Crown Heights. Albany, NY: New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, office of Justice Systems Analysis, 1993.
Goldschmidt, Henry. Race and religion among the chosen people of Crown Heights. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Golenbock, Peter. Bums: An oral history of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Lincolnwood, Ill: Contemporary Books, 2000.
Kelly, Wilhelmena Rhodes. Crown Heights and Weeksville. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2009.
New York Landmarks Preservation Commission. Crown Heights North proposed historic district. New York: The Commission, 1978.
New York Landmarks Preservation Commission. Crown Heights South proposed historic district. New York: The Commission, 1978.
Osman, Suleiman. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the search for authenticity in postwar New York. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Purnell, Brian. Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
Sanchez, Toby. Crown Heights neighborhood profile. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn In Touch Information Center, 1988.
Sens-Castet, R. The Citizens Union Cemetery. 1972.
Shapiro, Edward S. Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn riot. Waltham, Mass: Brandeis University Press ; Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2006.
Vendryes, Margaret Rose. Barthé: A life in sculpture. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2008.
Wellman, Judith. Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The free black community of Weeksville, New York. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
Documentaries
Brooklyn Dodgers: Ghosts of Flatbush. HBO, 2007.
Oral History Collections
Crown Heights Oral History – Bridging Eastern Parkway, 1993-1994; ArMs 1994.006; Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY.
Websites
Holland, Joy. “Pigtown.” Accessed December 8, 2015. http://brooklynology.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/post/2009/03/05/Pigtown.aspx
Landmarks Preservation Commission. “Crown Heights North Walking Tour.” Accessed December 8, 2015. http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/sig/LPC_WalkingTour_CrownHeights.pdf