Bobov and Lubavitch 1

you just heard the schaefer i'll talk a little bit about the babavir hasidim so this takes us back to the mid-1950s and 1960s in crown heights lived in the west side of new manhattan and in 1955 54-55 he moved to crown heights at that time when he moved his your hey there is yeshiva that baba hasidam had in um in brownsville moved to be next to the baba barabba so it was 176 brooklyn avenue corner prospect place was the yeshiva the house next door was the absence of hal bush down the baby's house 184 brooklyn across the street was the brooklyn children's museum and the bubba rabbit's house in the back there was their base meadows and there was a mig fair on the premises too the barbecue from who learned that uh bathroom dean that's where the yeshiva was from 1946 before it moved to ocean parkway in 1969 they would use many times the mikvah there because they shouldn't have to walk more to crown height to eastern parkway to the california mikveh and other rogers where the harlequin had a mikvah so they you know cut 10 minutes from their walk by walking there to the mikveh and then came the what we call the white flight the 1960s uh in the 1950s going to the 60s between stuyvesant became all african-american and mostly african-american and became very dangerous and it spilled over into that side of eastern parkway the side that you know goes towards atlantic avenue and that's where bhavev was the yeshiva and the river's house and there them living around there and it became very dangerous someone told me that he members when the children were playing in the yard and there was a building next door and all of a sudden a milk crate box fell down almost hitting one of the boys um so there was a lot of you know anti-semitism and it was a very very uh tough time and that went into the 60s and the 60s it started to spill over to go over to the other side of eastern park was eastern parkway was kind of the breaking point so where lupavich and others has literature yeshiva the young israel toyota and going down to empire boulevard montgomery street all the streets that today are full of lebanese was a very very large jewish front community they were also not from people of course in the neighborhood the conservative synagogue the jewish center which today's toyota menachem was the largest one of its kind in in new york at the time with you know with the hall and and the swimming pool but it started to spread the african-americans started to spread and there were there was realtors some jewish ones who were blockbusters they had they they benefit they they took advantage of the situation and they went to people they said your house will be worth nothing sell it now and people were selling their house for eighteen thousand twenty thousand twenty five thousand i mean houses that worth today a million to a million five were being sold for eighteen to twenty five thousand dollars in 1964 and 65 66 in those years himself moved to borough park in 1967. they already purchased their property on 48th street between 15th and 16th avenue they had their base madrid and um i heard that that you know that there were kind of unofficial messages sent by the rabbit through the bubba roof to stay in crown heights he wanted to stay because hasidim told them uh we already bought houses in borough park and we're going you know and kind of you know it's too dangerous for us anyway he capitulated and um he went as well then there was the famous sikh the famous talk that ever gave in 1969 and the last day of pacer pace that ever spoke about and he said the famous words that rings in our ears today khan sivas hashem here god's blessing rests and he was referring to the neighborhood of crown heights and he said this is the neighborhood which my father knew the holy sadiq the previous labor of yourself yitzhak lived and he dovent and he learned for 10 years from 1940 to 1950 and whatever took that mean to mean that the entire neighborhood of crown heights is a blessed neighborhood and the rebbe spoke about the importance of not leaving any quoted from the mishpa you're not allowed to leave and it was the first time that he addressed this issue in public although as i said the neighborhood was already going downhill from the early 60s nevertheless he didn't talk about it till 69. it could be and this is only a thought that there were some laboratories who actually bought houses in other neighborhoods because they didn't hear from their ever that you know you shouldn't do that and everyone else was leaving so they just decided as well to leave i assume someone told the rev about this and that's why he um he spoke in 69 about not leaving and then all those the barbecues of course on the spot dropped their purchases of um you know and and just stayed stayed put so this was uh then it went into the 1970s and that ever said