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770 Eastern Parkway (Yiddish: 770 איסטערן פארקוויי), also known as "770" ("Seven Seventy"), is the street address of the World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, located on Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The building is the center of the Chabad-Lubavitch world movement ...
The World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement are located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and is often simply referred to as 770. [1] The synagogue, located under 784 and 788 Eastern Parkway, has been subject to a dispute between the Agudas Chasidei Chabad (the umbrella organization for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement) and the Gabbaim, who are associated ...
The headquarters was also the epicenter of the 1991 Crown Heights riots, which began after a 7-year-old boy was struck and killed by a car in the rabbi’s motorcade.
Commonly referred to as 770, a nod to the address of the complex’s original building, the Chabad headquarters now encompasses multiple adjacent structures in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.
Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... 770 Eastern Parkway the headquarters of the Chabad movement.
Police alleged that Vincent T. Sumpter, of Brooklyn, stabbed the 33-year-old man around 2 a.m. Saturday near the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidic Judaism.
Chabad is estimated to have an annual growth of 3.6%: [56] Crown Heights – The Crown Heights Chabad community's estimated size is 10,000 to 12,000 [56] [10] or 12,000 to 16,000. [57] In 2006, extrapolating based on census data, it was estimated that the Chabad community in Crown Heights make up some 11,000.
It has been located in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, New York since inception. The yeshiva was first located within the Chabad world headquarters building at 770 Eastern Parkway before moving to its present location at 824 Eastern Parkway following growing enrolment. [2]