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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