Underhill Represent!
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 7:30 pm
Book launch party to celebrate the new paperback edition of “R&B (Rhythm & Business): The Political Economy of Black Music,” edited by NORMAN KELLEY, at Bar Sepia in Brooklyn (234 Underhill Ave, between St. John’s & Eastern Pkwy; 2 or 3 train to Eastern Pkwy/Bklyn Museum). Brief remarks by the editor; music, hors d’oeuvres, and drinks; cash bar. Rsvp to [email protected].
Susan says: “Crow Hill is really Crown Heights, but I’ve come to love the name and I probably sound a little pretentious calling it that. 🙂 Crow Hill was its pre-prohibition name. My book (The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
“The book also says that the name could have come from the mid-1800’s when there were African and African American settlements there, and the whites called them ‘crows’. A third story has it that the ‘crows’ were inmates in the Kings County Penitentiary that was there from 1846 to 1907.”
From the WPA Guide to New York City
PHOTO: The Black Lady Theatre / Black Star Recording Studio, Nostrand Ave., Crown Heights [Bridge and Tunnel Club]
LINK: PH Trivia Because I Am Bored [Daily Heights Forums]