In a show of unity, over 1,000 residents of Crown Heights took over the streets marching with the new Torah dedicated to the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, directed by Rabbi Berel and Chanie Majesky ● The new Torah was sponsored by R’ Yossi and Libbie Chein in honor of their son Boruch Schneur and all special-needs children in Crown Heights ● Chaim Perl presents Pictures

Rooftop parties in Brooklyn are nothing new. But on a recent beautiful day in Crown Heights, Jessica McNamara is throwing a special kind of open-air wingding — her seasonal honey-extraction party. And, her VIPs (or VIBs), roughly 50,000 European honeybees, are already all abuzz ● Full Story

DEVELOPING STORY: The administration of Bais Rivkah schools have notified parents that school will begin on Thursday ● Sources told ChabadInfo.com that the administration is working on a permanent solution for the problem. We will keep you updated as the story develops ● Full Story

A group of students from Cheder Ohr Menachem of Crown Heights, directed by Rabbi Mendy Yuzewitz, enjoyed their first day of school on a trip to a waterfall, followed by a hike and a picnic, enjoying the scenery and meeting the King in the field ● Yehuda Chanin presents Pictures

BREAKING NEWS: Parents of students of Bais Rivkah schools have been called and notified that all children from Pre-1-A to High School will not begin school as scheduled, due to financial difficulties. Preschool classes are not affected ● Story Updated 9/2/2014 12:15pm ● Full Story

A young man was buying some items from the convenience store on the corner of Albany and East New York Avenues when a young black male approached him and demanded his cell phone. The young man refused to give him his phone and that’s when the thug punched him in the face, grabbed the phone and fled the store. The victim acted quickly and called the Shmira emergency hotline using a friends’ phone ● Full Story, Pictures

For the 10th time, Oholei Torah schools have printed a beautiful large-format “Community Calendar” for the residents of Crown Heights ● The Calendar is available free-of-charge in local stores ● Full Story, Details

Recent years have seen the slow gentrification of Crown Heights, with many “Yuppies” moving into Crown Heights, pushing up the prices of homes and apartments ● Bloomberg News interviewed a young Jewish couple, Julian and Danielle Katz, who decided to make Crown Heights their new home, to find out how they ended up here, after a fruitless search in Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights and other yuppified neighborhoods ● Full Story

Crown Heights Day Camps Machane Mamosh (Lubavitcher Yeshiva) and Gan Menachem (Oholei Torah) invite the community today (Friday) for a special performance of the “Twins from France” in the Oholei Torah Ballroom, open to the public ● Details

Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 9:58AM: Perp is seen in front of True Value hardware store located at 829 E New York Avenue in crown Heights, Brooklyn. He cases the area before making off with a bike that was left outside. This is believed to be the second time this perp stole a bicycle from the same location. The previous incident occurred approximately two weeks prior ● Pictures, Video

Over the next two months, jurors from East New York, Crown Heights and Canarsie will get to pass judgment on one of the world’s most notorious terror financing organizations, Arab Bank, which processed Saudi donations to Hamas terrorists before and after attacks ● Full Story

1388 Union Street, which sold for $999,000 in December, sold again in July for $1,850,000, more than $150,000 above the original asking of $1,695,000 ● Full Story, Pictures

Following a series of violent incidents that killed two people and injured 21 more across four boroughs, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio vowed increased resources in the affected neighborhoods, which include East New York and Crown Heights in Brooklyn ● Full Story

When a black teen decided to try and do a “knockout” to a Bochur in Crown Heights, he wasn’t expecting what happened next… ● Crown Heights Shmira obtained video footage of the incident ● Watch

Community leaders, politicians and local residents, participated this afternoon in a press conference organized by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams which took place in crown heights, highlighting the recent victims of black violence both in Florida and in crown heights ● Levi Liberow presents a Photo Gallery

With the explosive growth of Anash families in Crown Heights, the local schools are filled to capacity, with some closing registration Chanukah time for the upcoming school year ● With their daughters entering preschool age, two Crown Heights moms decided to launch a new preschool ● Details

Yesterday (Sunday), at 2:00pm, a Crown Heights resident noted that his Tefillin were missing. A few minutes later, the thief called back and offered to return the Tefillin for a fee. When he came to complete the transaction, Shmira was there ● Full Story, Pictures

Two hours later an alert Shmira unit on routine night patrol spotted the same guy walking on Brooklyn Ave carrying a wooden bench. This time however, a Bochur witnessed the same person steal a bench from a porch across the street from his home on Carroll Street and discretely followed him from behind. He flagged down a Shmira car and relayed what he observed ● Full Story