Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: Crown Heights Brooklyn, today know for neighborhoods with tree-lined streets with beautiful townhomes and brownstones, the many museums and cultural institutions in the neighborhood, and mix of great dining and bar options. Marked by brownstones and Victorian mansions, Crown Heights is an evolving area where Caribbean and kosher eateries share streets with trendy cafes and DJ-fueled bars. While the neighborhood is rapidly gentrifying, the Caribbean and Hasidic Jewish communities of Brooklyn’s sprawling Crown Heights neighborhood is known for its West Indian population and the community’s annual parade on Labor Day, a festival of feather headdresses that dances down Eastern Parkway.

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  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Your response: Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The main thoroughfare through this neighborhood is Eastern Parkway, a tree-lined boulevard designed by Frederick Law Olmsted extending two miles (3 km) east-west. Typical Crown Heights.The 1970s and 1980s was a time of demographic movement for Crown Heights, with many of the Jewish residents moving out to Flatbush, Williamsburg, and Boro Park and the African American community moving in. 1978. New York has the largest African-American population in the United States. After the A-train extended service from Manhattan to Brooklyn, many African-Americans relocated to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area.

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  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Your response: Crown Heights has a majority West Indian and African American population according to the 2010 census

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  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines