Race and Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights

Henry Goldschmidt, Assistant Professor of Religion and Society at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

Rutgers University Press, 2006. 281 pages.

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I’ve been living in Brooklyn for just over five months now - first in Ditmas Park, now in Crown Heights. The transition from cozy Brown University in Providence to New York hasn’t always been easy. I still have a lot to learn. But I have learned one important lesson since arriving in June: New Yorkers are an open book. Carrie Bradshaw was right about them: New Yorkers are always looking for a new apartment, a new job, or a new boyfriend. (I’m looking for the latter two.)