Yesterday the Times profiled Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, the rapidly gentrifying boulevard and the “epicenter of renaissance” previously seen in Park Slope and Williamsburg. Though there are plenty of residents in the historically black and Hasidic neighborhood that welcome the influx of students, young professionals and families, a Crown Heights native and Medgar Evers professor notes,”There’s a social cohesion gap right now.” And Nick Juravitch, a Columbia grad student and Crown Heights blogger, tells us, “There definitely is to certain degrees. But there are also signs that the groups living in the neighborhood are becoming remarkably integrated.” [ more › ]

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Crown Heights Gentrification Doesn’t Always Fit Narrative

Breaking up with someone on Valentine’s Day is a pretty cold-blooded idea, unless of course the no good p.o.s. has it coming. But you know what’s even worse than getting dumped on V-Day? Being a publicist who has to flog a Valentine’s Day “angle” for every trash-bound press release sent between now and mid-February. These things are currently flooding in at a rate of 25 per hour, like a fire hydrant spraying sickly pink champagne all over our cringing faces. But occasionally one pitch stands out from the herd, such as this beaut—pasted below verbatim—with the subject “Where to Dump Someone on Valentine’s Day”: [ more › ]

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Where To Dump Someone On Valentine’s Day: A Publicist Hits Rock Bottom

Yesterday, police raided a Bronx building which happened to house a five-story marijuana growing operation . Around 800 plants were seized, the equivalent of over 1500 pounds, including 75 pounds of dried marijuana . And the street value? Oh, around $7.5 million . [ more › ]

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Bronx Pot Farm Had Street Value Of $7.5 Million

We’ve spent the past few weeks looking back through Steven Siegel’s photo archive , which beautifully retells the city’s story over the past three decades, from the South Bronx to Bushwick. From utter destruction to Disneyfication. Turns out that Siegel also filmed what was going on throughout all that time, and his videos are no less spectacular. You can watch them all at his YouTube page (some even tell a story ), and our favorites are below: [ more › ]

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Now Playing: Steven Siegel’s Amazing Video Footage Of Old New York

Neighborhood NIMBYs are about to get a new tool in their arsenal. DNAinfo reports that the New York State Liquor Authority is getting ready to launch an interactive map this month that will let you see what your local bars have been up to (along with any bar in the State). Better than having to file a FOIL-request just to find out if anyone else has been whining about that noisy bar on the block! [ more › ]

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New SLA Map Hopes To Make Tracking "Bad" Bars Easier

The yuppie goyim are TAKING OVER Crown Heights, turning the once idyllic neighborhood into a wicked G-dless hellhole known among interlopers as ” ProCro ,” a veritable Sodom where they party half-naked on rooftops and corrupt the area youth! So says one local landlord, who has fired off an open letter begging fellow property owners not to rent to these licentious libertines. In a desperate missive titled “Take Back Our Neighborhood,” the anonymous landlord writes: [ more › ]

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Hasidic Landlord Sick Of "Sun Tanning Goyim" In Crown Heights

Hell’s Kitchen residents are up in arms over the decline of their neighborhood, which, despite its roots as a gang-and-hooker filled, ahem, hellhole, has been a perfectly nice place to raise your kids for the past few years. Until now, because dastardly legions of drunk twentysomethings are getting drunk and being loud and puking up mango-flavored vodka all over the sidewalk. [ more › ]

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Hell’s Kitchen Goes To Hell In A Handbasket

A Chelsea building manager was arrested today on allegations that he made a series of anti-Semitic phone calls and scrawled hateful messages and symbols on apartment doors in the neighborhood. Two people say David Haddad, 56, made threatening and anti-Semitic phone calls to an 80-year-old Brooklyn woman Brooklyn last month. Investigators also say Haddad, who is “Jewish but not practicing,” according to one police source , called an unidentified woman on January 10th and threatened her in her Chelsea apartment building. [ more › ]

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Chelsea Building Manager Arrested For Anti-Semitic Phone Calls, Messages

Did you know that if you keep your car running while you run into a store, someone might just steal it? This is what happened to a NJ woman who visited a gas station’s mini mart in her 2011 BMW. [ more › ]

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How To Get Your Car Stolen: Leave Your Car Running While You Go Into The Store

Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: Queens, N.Y. Price: $2,995,000 The Skinny: When this elaborate stone estate home was built in 1855, it sat atop 440 bucolic acres of summertime bliss. Today, it sits on a single acre next to a power station and a waste treatment plant. While time has had its effects on this section of Queens, the Steinway Mansion seems like an oasis of historic preservation in an otherwise overtly industrial section of the neighborhood. Owned by the illustrious Steinway family from 1870 to 1925, the house has been in the hands of a different family for almost 100 years. Once listed for $4.5M, the house has had its price chopped all the way down to $3M, but still hasn’t found a willing buyer, despite boasting five bedrooms, 4.5 baths, and more ornate detailing than one is likely to ever find again in Queens. · Steinway Mansion [Sotheby's] · Astoria’s Steinway Mansion Would Now Be Happy With $3.5M [Curbed NY]

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House of the Day: Ornate Steinway Mansion Proves "Location, Location, Location"