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Where are the Borders of Crown Heights? Draw Your Neighborhood's Boundaries

CROWN HEIGHTS — Sitting on Eastern Parkway and Nostrand, strolling near Brower Park or drooling over the gorgeous houses on President Street and Brooklyn Avenue — we can be reasonably sure we’re in the middle of Crown Heights.

But what about the edges?

Where does Crown Heights end and Brownsville begin? Where does the neighborhood become Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, and is that even a thing? What about Weeksville and Wingate? And how much do we despise anyone who uses the term “ProCro,” exactly?

Here at DNAinfo New York, we look to you to solve the mystery.

We made a map to let you draw the borders of Crown Heights and its neighbors, Prospect Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Click on the image below to get started; your map will be overlaid with the previous respondents’ maps of the neighborhood.

When we get enough submissions, we’ll present the data in an official, undisputed, once-and-for-all neighborhood map…which you can all fight over until “Heights Park” catches on.