Pineapple Street Studios Launches ''Love Thy Neighbor''

RADIO ONLINE | Thursday, February 10, 2022

Love Thy Neighbor

Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios has announced "Love Thy Neighbor," a five-part narrative series about the Crown Heights riot in Brooklyn. In the original series, journalist Collier Meyerson explores the lasting impact those four days of violence had on Crown Heights residents and the future of New York City. Meyerson has a deep connection to this story as a Black, Jewish New Yorker who lived in Crown Heights for eight years. The program will launch on February 15, 2022 with all five episodes.

Guests on Love Thy Neighbor include Crown Heights residents, members of the Lubavitch and Black communities, journalists and activists, including: Fordham University Assistant Professor of African American Studies Tyesha Maddox, born and raised Crown Heights resident Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Caribbean journalist who documented the unrest for the Village Voice Peter Noel, lifelong Jamaican-American Crown Heights resident Judith Lovell and journalist Andrew Kirtzman, who is also author of "Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City."

"There's a little known riot that happened 30 years ago on the streets of Brooklyn, but what came to be known as the Crown Heights Riot impacted politics and policing in this city forever," said Collier Meyerson. "Telling this story through a new lens can teach us a lot about how we got to where we are, not just as a city, but as a nation, and I'm glad to do so with Pineapple Street Studios."

"Collier's thoughtfully reported and at times personal approach to exploring the Crown Heights riot offers a 360 degree perspective of an event that shaped New York history," said Pineapple Street Studios co-founders Jenna Weiss-Berman and Max Linsky. "Her ability to break down the intense dynamics of the four days that changed New York will take listeners back thirty years and shine a light on similar forces still at work today."