Complex sentence: Crown Heights today has extreme contrasts between lovely architecture and vacant, run-down buildings, and variety of peoples and shops, ranging from a mix of bearded, dark-suit wearing Hasidim to vividly and brightly dressed Afro-Caribbean residents.
Split into simpler sentences: Crown Heights today has extreme contrasts between lovely architecture and vacant, run-down buildings. It contains a variety of people ranging from a mix of bearded, dark-suit wearing Hasidim, to vividly and brightly dressed Afro-Caribbean residents.