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East Flatbush, Brooklyn

October 15, 2023

"Rugby, Brooklyn" redirects here. Not to be confused with Brooklyn Rugby.

East Flatbush is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. East Flatbush is bounded by Crown Heights and Empire Boulevard to the north; Brownsville and East 98th Street to the east; Flatlands, Canarsie and the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch to the south; and the neighborhood of Flatbush and New York Avenue to the west. East Flatbush is a predominantly African American neighborhood and has a population of 135,619 as of the 2010 United States census.

East Flatbush
Neighborhood of Brooklyn
PS 181, Tilden and New York Avenues
Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°38′38″N 73°55′48″W / 40.644°N 73.930°W / 40.644; -73.930
Country United States
State New York
City New York City
Borough Brooklyn
Community DistrictBrooklyn 17[1]
Area
 • Total7.5737 km2 (2.9242 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total135,619
 • Density18,000/km2 (46,000/sq mi)
 [2]
Ethnicity
[3]
 • Black88.7%
 • Hispanic6.6
 • Two or more races1.6
 • White1.3
 • Other1.8
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Code
11203
Area codes718, 347, 929, and 917

East Flatbush is part of Brooklyn Community District 17, and its primary ZIP Code is 11203.[1] It is patrolled by the 67th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.[4] Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 40th, 41st, and 45th Districts.[5]

Geography Edit

As with many neighborhoods in Brooklyn, the borders of East Flatbush are subjective/porous, but its northern border is roughly at Empire Boulevard and East New York Avenue east of East 91st Street, its southern border is in the vicinity of the Long Island Rail Road Bay Ridge Branch, its eastern border is roughly at East 98th Street and its western border is roughly at Nostrand/New York Avenues.

East Flatbush is split up into three subsections. From west to east they are Erasmus, Farragut, and Remsen Village/Rugby.[6]

Farragut Edit

Not to be confused with Farragut Houses, occasionally referred to as "Farragut" as well.

The central section of East Flatbush is called Farragut.[7] Farragut is roughly bounded by Cortelyou Road and Holy Cross Cemetery to the north, Kings Highway to the east, Brooklyn Avenue on the west and the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch to the south.[8] Farragut was originally part of the colonial Town of Flatbush,[7][8][9] and was named for American Civil War Admiral David Farragut.[8][9] The area was largely populated by Jews and Italians before 1950. By the 1990s, African Americans became a majority, along with many immigrants from the West Indies.[8]

Farragut is adjacent to Paerdegat Woods, a formerly wooded area near Paerdegat Basin where real-estate developer Fred Trump constructed housing in the 1940s.[9][10] Farragut also contains Flatbush Gardens (formerly named Vanderveer Estates),[11] a 59-building complex erected in 1949.[7][8][9][12] Vanderveer Estates was built on the site of the old Flatbush Water Works.[13] The complex is one of the largest privately held working-class housing complexes in New York City, and owned in part by David Bistricer.[14] Notable people who once lived in Vanderveer Estates include Barbra Streisand[13] and Michael K. Williams.[15]

Remsen Village Edit

Remsen Village has been described as a "subsection of the larger East Flatbush neighborhood,"[16] with an estimated 60,000 residents.[17] but is also sometimes considered its own neighborhood[18] and also as "Rugby-Remsen Village".[19] The origin of using the name Remsen Village seems to be in the mid-1990s,[20] and it was referred as such through the 21st century.[18][21] Remsen Village's population[17] is over one third of that of Brooklyn Community Board 17, which consists entirely of East Flatbush and its subsections.[22]

The name "Rugby" was described in 2016 by the New York Times as "the old name for the area." It persists as the name of a road in East Flatbush, as well as a library branch in eastern East Flatbush.[23]

Demographics Edit

East Flatbush is divided into three neighborhood tabulation areas (Erasmus, Farragut, and Remsen Village), which collectively comprise the population of the area.[6] Based on data from the 2010 United States census, the combined population of East Flatbush's neighborhood tabulation areas was 135,619, a change of -9,740 (-7.2%) from the 145,359 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 1,871.5 acres (757.4 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 72.5 inhabitants per acre (46,400/sq mi; 17,900/km2).[2]

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 1.3% (1,816) White, 88.7% (120,231) African American, 0.3% (366) Native American, 1.1% (1,480) Asian, 0% (45) Pacific Islander, 0.4% (523) from other races, and 1.6% (2,140) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.6% (9,018) of the population.[3]

The entirety of Community Board 17 had 154,575 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 82.6 years.[24]: 2, 20  This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[25]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [26] Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 21% are between the ages of 0 and 17, 28% between 25 and 44, and 28% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 9% and 15% respectively.[24]: 2 

As of 2016, the median household income in Community District 17 was $49,349.[27] In 2018, an estimated 19% of East Flatbush residents lived in poverty, compared to 21% in all of Brooklyn and 20% in all of New York City. One in eleven residents (9%) were unemployed, compared to 9% in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 54% in East Flatbush, higher than the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, East Flatbush is considered to be high-income and not gentrifying, relative to the rest of the city.[24]: 7 

East Flatbush generally is very similar in nature to neighboring Flatbush, as both are predominantly West Indian and working class; however, Flatbush has a higher percentage of White and Asian residents than East Flatbush. The area was populated after World War II predominantly by immigrant Jews and Italians, then in the 1960s by African Americans, but most recently has seen many West Indian immigrants such as Guyanese, Haitians, Jamaicans, St.Lucians, Trinidadians, Grenadians, Vincentians, Bajans, Panamanians and Dominicans groups coming to the area. Within its confines is the Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, which is located at 3620 Tilden Avenue. While some residents are affluent, East Flatbush is mostly populated by working-class Brooklynites. Similar to other eastern Brooklyn neighborhoods, blacks predominate East Flatbush. The area is 91.4% Black or African-American [28] and 51% foreign born,[29] the majority of whom are from the Caribbean. Considering this data, East Flatbush has been noted as being the single largest West Indian neighborhood in all of New York City and America as a whole.[30][31]

According to the 2020 census data from New York City Department of City Planning, East Flatbush has been given three different names for three different sections, which are East Flatbush Erasmus to the west, East Flatbush Farragut to the east, and East Flatbush Rugby to the north. The Erasmus portion had between 30,000 and 39,999 Black residents and between 5,000 and 9,999 Hispanic residents, meanwhile each the White and Asian populations were under 5000 residents. The Rugby portion had 30,000 to 39,999 Black residents while each the Hispanic, White, and Asian populations were all under 5000 residents. The Farragut portion had 20,000 to 29,999 Black residents while each the Hispanic, White, and Asian population were also all under 5000 residents.[32][33]

Little Caribbean and Little Haiti Edit

Since the 1960s and especially through the 1970s, Caribbean immigrants have largely settled into East Flatbush, as well as in other surrounding areas such as Flatbush, and Crown Heights. Since 2017, the areas surrounding Nostrand and Church Avenues have been given the nickname, Little Caribbean.[34][35][36] In addition to Little Caribbean, the south tip of the neighborhood has been given the name Little Haiti due to the high concentration of Haitians.[37][38] Additionally, MTA's IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the 2 and 5 station at Newkirk Avenue station added the name Little Haiti to this subway station stop now calling it, Newkirk Avenue–Little Haiti.[39]

Police and crime Edit

The NYPD's 67th Precinct (known internally by NYPD officers as Fort Jah[40]) is located at 2820 Snyder Avenue.[4] The 67th Precinct ranked 40th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.[41] As of 2018, with a non-fatal assault rate of 80 per 100,000 people, East Flatbush's rate of violent crimes per capita is greater than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 597 per 100,000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole.[24]: 8  The Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 79.9% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 6 murders, 43 rapes, 246 robberies, 601 felony assaults, 225 burglaries, 586 grand larcenies, and 98 grand larcenies auto in 2018.[42]

A drug epidemic ravaged East Flatbush during the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, mostly in Vanderveer Estates. The intersection of Foster Avenue and Nostrand Avenues was nicknamed "the Front Page" because of media attention to drug murders there. The intersection of Foster between New York Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue area to the south was called "the Back Page" because its many murders went unnoticed.[43] The area around the Nostrand playground had various gangs: Crips, Gangster Disciples, Jamaicans (Shower Posse), Trinidadians and Grenadians particularly notorious for turf wars, shootouts, and pitbull fights. Crime is still somewhat of a problem in the neighborhood today as well.[citation needed]

Fire safety Edit

The firehouse for the New York City Fire Department (FDNY)'s Engine Co. 310/Ladder Co. 174 is located at 5105 Snyder Avenue.[44][45]

Health Edit

 
SUNY Downstate Medical Center

As of 2018, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are more common in East Flatbush than in other places citywide. In East Flatbush, there were 126 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 20.6 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).[24]: 11  East Flatbush has a high population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive healthcare through Medicaid.[46] In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 15%, which is higher than the citywide rate of 12%.[24]: 14 

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in East Flatbush is 0.0078 milligrams per cubic metre (7.8×10−9 oz/cu ft), lower than the citywide and boroughwide averages.[24]: 9  Eight percent of East Flatbush residents are smokers, which is lower the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.[24]: 13  In East Flatbush, 34% of residents are obese, 15% are diabetic, and 36% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.[24]: 16  In addition, 22% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.[24]: 12 

Eighty percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is lower than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 83% of residents described their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent," higher than the city's average of 78%.[24]: 13  For every supermarket in East Flatbush, there are 21 bodegas.[24]: 10 

East Flatbush is home to three major hospitals, Kings County Hospital, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.[46]

Transportation Edit

East Flatbush does not have as much access to the New York City Subway as Flatbush. However, the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line (2 and ​5 trains) has some stops located near the western border of East Flatbush, particularly Newkirk Avenue–Little Haiti, Beverly Road, and Church Avenue.[47] Additionally, along the neighborhood's eastern border with Brownsville, the IRT New Lots Line (2, ​3, ​4, and ​5 trains) has a station at the intersection of Sutter Avenue, Rutland Road, and East 98th Street.

MTA Regional Bus Operations' B44, B44 SBS, B46 and B46 SBS routes run north–south through East Flatbush, while the B8 and B35 run east–west. The B12 bus takes a serpentine route at the north end of the neighborhood, and the B7 runs on Kings Highway at the southeast edge of East Flatbush.[48]

Education Edit

East Flatbush generally has a lower ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018. While 30% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 15% have less than a high school education and 55% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 40% of Brooklynites and 38% of city residents have a college education or higher.[24]: 6  The percentage of East Flatbush students excelling in math has been increasing, with math achievement rising from 32 percent in 2000 to 51 percent in 2011, though reading achievement within the same time period stayed steady at 42%.[49]

East Flatbush's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is slightly higher than the rest of New York City. In East Flatbush, 23% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, compared to the citywide average of 20% of students.[25]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [24]: 6  Additionally, 78% of high school students in East Flatbush graduate on time, higher than the citywide average of 75% of students.[24]: 6 

Schools Edit

Schools located in East Flatbush include:

The neighborhood was the home of the former General George W. Wingate and Gov. Samuel J. Tilden High Schools.

Libraries Edit

The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) has two branches in East Flatbush. The Rugby branch is located at 1000 Utica Avenue and opened in 1957.[50] It was closed for renovations in mid-2018.[51]

The East Flatbush Library is located at 9612 Church Avenue, between East 96th Street and Rockaway Parkway, and was opened in 1945. In September 2018, this library was also closed for renovations.[52]

Notable places Edit

In summer 2006, the New York City Department of Transportation co-named a portion of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street in East Flatbush as "Bob Marley Boulevard".[53][54]

The former Congregation Beth Israel, now known as Mt. Zion Church of God 7th Day, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[55]

Notable people Edit

Notable current and former residents of East Flatbush include:

References Edit

  Media related to East Flatbush, Brooklyn at Wikimedia Commons

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Rugby Brooklyn redirects here Not to be confused with Brooklyn Rugby East Flatbush is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn East Flatbush is bounded by Crown Heights and Empire Boulevard to the north Brownsville and East 98th Street to the east Flatlands Canarsie and the Long Island Rail Road s Bay Ridge Branch to the south and the neighborhood of Flatbush and New York Avenue to the west East Flatbush is a predominantly African American neighborhood and has a population of 135 619 as of the 2010 United States census East FlatbushNeighborhood of BrooklynPS 181 Tilden and New York AvenuesLocation in New York CityCoordinates 40 38 38 N 73 55 48 W 40 644 N 73 930 W 40 644 73 930Country United StatesState New YorkCityNew York CityBoroughBrooklynCommunity DistrictBrooklyn 17 1 Area Total7 5737 km2 2 9242 sq mi Population 2010 Total135 619 Density18 000 km2 46 000 sq mi 2 Ethnicity 3 Black88 7 Hispanic6 6 Two or more races1 6 White1 3 Other1 8Time zoneUTC 5 Eastern Summer DST UTC 4 EDT ZIP Code11203Area codes718 347 929 and 917East Flatbush is part of Brooklyn Community District 17 and its primary ZIP Code is 11203 1 It is patrolled by the 67th Precinct of the New York City Police Department 4 Politically it is represented by the New York City Council s 40th 41st and 45th Districts 5 Contents 1 Geography 1 1 Farragut 1 2 Remsen Village 2 Demographics 3 Little Caribbean and Little Haiti 4 Police and crime 5 Fire safety 6 Health 7 Transportation 8 Education 8 1 Schools 8 2 Libraries 9 Notable places 10 Notable people 11 ReferencesGeography EditAs with many neighborhoods in Brooklyn the borders of East Flatbush are subjective porous but its northern border is roughly at Empire Boulevard and East New York Avenue east of East 91st Street its southern border is in the vicinity of the Long Island Rail Road Bay Ridge Branch its eastern border is roughly at East 98th Street and its western border is roughly at Nostrand New York Avenues East Flatbush is split up into three subsections From west to east they are Erasmus Farragut and Remsen Village Rugby 6 Farragut Edit Not to be confused with Farragut Houses occasionally referred to as Farragut as well The central section of East Flatbush is called Farragut 7 Farragut is roughly bounded by Cortelyou Road and Holy Cross Cemetery to the north Kings Highway to the east Brooklyn Avenue on the west and the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch to the south 8 Farragut was originally part of the colonial Town of Flatbush 7 8 9 and was named for American Civil War Admiral David Farragut 8 9 The area was largely populated by Jews and Italians before 1950 By the 1990s African Americans became a majority along with many immigrants from the West Indies 8 Farragut is adjacent to Paerdegat Woods a formerly wooded area near Paerdegat Basin where real estate developer Fred Trump constructed housing in the 1940s 9 10 Farragut also contains Flatbush Gardens formerly named Vanderveer Estates 11 a 59 building complex erected in 1949 7 8 9 12 Vanderveer Estates was built on the site of the old Flatbush Water Works 13 The complex is one of the largest privately held working class housing complexes in New York City and owned in part by David Bistricer 14 Notable people who once lived in Vanderveer Estates include Barbra Streisand 13 and Michael K Williams 15 Remsen Village Edit Remsen Village has been described as a subsection of the larger East Flatbush neighborhood 16 with an estimated 60 000 residents 17 but is also sometimes considered its own neighborhood 18 and also as Rugby Remsen Village 19 The origin of using the name Remsen Village seems to be in the mid 1990s 20 and it was referred as such through the 21st century 18 21 Remsen Village s population 17 is over one third of that of Brooklyn Community Board 17 which consists entirely of East Flatbush and its subsections 22 The name Rugby was described in 2016 by the New York Times as the old name for the area It persists as the name of a road in East Flatbush as well as a library branch in eastern East Flatbush 23 Demographics EditEast Flatbush is divided into three neighborhood tabulation areas Erasmus Farragut and Remsen Village which collectively comprise the population of the area 6 Based on data from the 2010 United States census the combined population of East Flatbush s neighborhood tabulation areas was 135 619 a change of 9 740 7 2 from the 145 359 counted in 2000 Covering an area of 1 871 5 acres 757 4 ha the neighborhood had a population density of 72 5 inhabitants per acre 46 400 sq mi 17 900 km2 2 The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 1 3 1 816 White 88 7 120 231 African American 0 3 366 Native American 1 1 1 480 Asian 0 45 Pacific Islander 0 4 523 from other races and 1 6 2 140 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6 6 9 018 of the population 3 The entirety of Community Board 17 had 154 575 inhabitants as of NYC Health s 2018 Community Health Profile with an average life expectancy of 82 6 years 24 2 20 This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81 2 for all New York City neighborhoods 25 53 PDF p 84 26 Most inhabitants are middle aged adults and youth 21 are between the ages of 0 and 17 28 between 25 and 44 and 28 between 45 and 64 The ratio of college aged and elderly residents was lower at 9 and 15 respectively 24 2 As of 2016 the median household income in Community District 17 was 49 349 27 In 2018 an estimated 19 of East Flatbush residents lived in poverty compared to 21 in all of Brooklyn and 20 in all of New York City One in eleven residents 9 were unemployed compared to 9 in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City Rent burden or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent is 54 in East Flatbush higher than the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52 and 51 respectively Based on this calculation as of 2018 update East Flatbush is considered to be high income and not gentrifying relative to the rest of the city 24 7 East Flatbush generally is very similar in nature to neighboring Flatbush as both are predominantly West Indian and working class however Flatbush has a higher percentage of White and Asian residents than East Flatbush The area was populated after World War II predominantly by immigrant Jews and Italians then in the 1960s by African Americans but most recently has seen many West Indian immigrants such as Guyanese Haitians Jamaicans St Lucians Trinidadians Grenadians Vincentians Bajans Panamanians and Dominicans groups coming to the area Within its confines is the Holy Cross Cemetery Brooklyn which is located at 3620 Tilden Avenue While some residents are affluent East Flatbush is mostly populated by working class Brooklynites Similar to other eastern Brooklyn neighborhoods blacks predominate East Flatbush The area is 91 4 Black or African American 28 and 51 foreign born 29 the majority of whom are from the Caribbean Considering this data East Flatbush has been noted as being the single largest West Indian neighborhood in all of New York City and America as a whole 30 31 According to the 2020 census data from New York City Department of City Planning East Flatbush has been given three different names for three different sections which are East Flatbush Erasmus to the west East Flatbush Farragut to the east and East Flatbush Rugby to the north The Erasmus portion had between 30 000 and 39 999 Black residents and between 5 000 and 9 999 Hispanic residents meanwhile each the White and Asian populations were under 5000 residents The Rugby portion had 30 000 to 39 999 Black residents while each the Hispanic White and Asian populations were all under 5000 residents The Farragut portion had 20 000 to 29 999 Black residents while each the Hispanic White and Asian population were also all under 5000 residents 32 33 Little Caribbean and Little Haiti EditSince the 1960s and especially through the 1970s Caribbean immigrants have largely settled into East Flatbush as well as in other surrounding areas such as Flatbush and Crown Heights Since 2017 the areas surrounding Nostrand and Church Avenues have been given the nickname Little Caribbean 34 35 36 In addition to Little Caribbean the south tip of the neighborhood has been given the name Little Haiti due to the high concentration of Haitians 37 38 Additionally MTA s IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the 2 and 5 station at Newkirk Avenue station added the name Little Haiti to this subway station stop now calling it Newkirk Avenue Little Haiti 39 Police and crime EditThe NYPD s 67th Precinct known internally by NYPD officers as Fort Jah 40 is located at 2820 Snyder Avenue 4 The 67th Precinct ranked 40th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per capita crime in 2010 41 As of 2018 update with a non fatal assault rate of 80 per 100 000 people East Flatbush s rate of violent crimes per capita is greater than that of the city as a whole The incarceration rate of 597 per 100 000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole 24 8 The Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s with crimes across all categories having decreased by 79 9 between 1990 and 2018 The precinct reported 6 murders 43 rapes 246 robberies 601 felony assaults 225 burglaries 586 grand larcenies and 98 grand larcenies auto in 2018 42 A drug epidemic ravaged East Flatbush during the late 1970s 1980s and early 1990s mostly in Vanderveer Estates The intersection of Foster Avenue and Nostrand Avenues was nicknamed the Front Page because of media attention to drug murders there The intersection of Foster between New York Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue area to the south was called the Back Page because its many murders went unnoticed 43 The area around the Nostrand playground had various gangs Crips Gangster Disciples Jamaicans Shower Posse Trinidadians and Grenadians particularly notorious for turf wars shootouts and pitbull fights Crime is still somewhat of a problem in the neighborhood today as well citation needed Fire safety EditThe firehouse for the New York City Fire Department FDNY s Engine Co 310 Ladder Co 174 is located at 5105 Snyder Avenue 44 45 Health Edit nbsp SUNY Downstate Medical CenterAs of 2018 update preterm births and births to teenage mothers are more common in East Flatbush than in other places citywide In East Flatbush there were 126 preterm births per 1 000 live births compared to 87 per 1 000 citywide and 20 6 births to teenage mothers per 1 000 live births compared to 19 3 per 1 000 citywide 24 11 East Flatbush has a high population of residents who are uninsured or who receive healthcare through Medicaid 46 In 2018 this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 15 which is higher than the citywide rate of 12 24 14 The concentration of fine particulate matter the deadliest type of air pollutant in East Flatbush is 0 0078 milligrams per cubic metre 7 8 10 9 oz cu ft lower than the citywide and boroughwide averages 24 9 Eight percent of East Flatbush residents are smokers which is lower the city average of 14 of residents being smokers 24 13 In East Flatbush 34 of residents are obese 15 are diabetic and 36 have high blood pressure compared to the citywide averages of 24 11 and 28 respectively 24 16 In addition 22 of children are obese compared to the citywide average of 20 24 12 Eighty percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day which is lower than the city s average of 87 In 2018 83 of residents described their health as good very good or excellent higher than the city s average of 78 24 13 For every supermarket in East Flatbush there are 21 bodegas 24 10 East Flatbush is home to three major hospitals Kings County Hospital SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center 46 Transportation EditEast Flatbush does not have as much access to the New York City Subway as Flatbush However the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line 2 and 5 trains has some stops located near the western border of East Flatbush particularly Newkirk Avenue Little Haiti Beverly Road and Church Avenue 47 Additionally along the neighborhood s eastern border with Brownsville the IRT New Lots Line 2 3 4 and 5 trains has a station at the intersection of Sutter Avenue Rutland Road and East 98th Street MTA Regional Bus Operations B44 B44 SBS B46 and B46 SBS routes run north south through East Flatbush while the B8 and B35 run east west The B12 bus takes a serpentine route at the north end of the neighborhood and the B7 runs on Kings Highway at the southeast edge of East Flatbush 48 Education EditEast Flatbush generally has a lower ratio of college educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018 update While 30 of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher 15 have less than a high school education and 55 are high school graduates or have some college education By contrast 40 of Brooklynites and 38 of city residents have a college education or higher 24 6 The percentage of East Flatbush students excelling in math has been increasing with math achievement rising from 32 percent in 2000 to 51 percent in 2011 though reading achievement within the same time period stayed steady at 42 49 East Flatbush s rate of elementary school student absenteeism is slightly higher than the rest of New York City In East Flatbush 23 of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year compared to the citywide average of 20 of students 25 24 PDF p 55 24 6 Additionally 78 of high school students in East Flatbush graduate on time higher than the citywide average of 75 of students 24 6 Schools Edit Schools located in East Flatbush include Cristo Rey High School a Catholic college preparatory high school located at East 37 Street and Foster Avenue Cultural Academy for the Arts and Sciences CAAS Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School It Takes A Village Academy ITAVA Nazareth Regional High School a co educational private Catholic high school located at East 57th Street and Avenue D St Francis of Assisi School International Arts Business School The School for Human Rights The School for Democracy and Leadership High School for Public Service Heroes of Tomorrow P S 208K Elsa Ebeling School a public elementary school located at East 48th Street and Avenue D St Catherine of Genoa St Therese of Lisieux Catholic Academy Meyer Levin Junior High SchoolThe neighborhood was the home of the former General George W Wingate and Gov Samuel J Tilden High Schools Libraries Edit The Brooklyn Public Library BPL has two branches in East Flatbush The Rugby branch is located at 1000 Utica Avenue and opened in 1957 50 It was closed for renovations in mid 2018 51 The East Flatbush Library is located at 9612 Church Avenue between East 96th Street and Rockaway Parkway and was opened in 1945 In September 2018 this library was also closed for renovations 52 Notable places EditIn summer 2006 the New York City Department of Transportation co named a portion of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street in East Flatbush as Bob Marley Boulevard 53 54 The former Congregation Beth Israel now known as Mt Zion Church of God 7th Day was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 55 Notable people EditNotable current and former residents of East Flatbush include Roosevelt Chapman born 1962 basketball player 56 Edwidge Danticat born 1969 writer 57 Flatbush Zombies hip hop group Fu Schnickens hip hop group Rudy Giuliani former mayor of New York City 58 Ira Glasser born 1938 civil liberties defender and author 59 Jamie Hector born 1975 actor 60 Jidenna born 1985 Wondaland Records rapper singer 61 Joey Badass born 1995 rapper 62 Bruce Pasternack 1947 2021 businessman MC Lyte born 1970 rapper 63 Romona Moore murdered college student 64 James P O Neill born 1958 NYC Police Commissioner 65 Rowdy Rebel rapper 66 Busta Rhymes born 1972 rapper 67 Bobby Shmurda born 1994 rapper 68 Shyne born 1978 as Jamal Michael Barrow rapper and politician 69 Dean Silvers film director film producer screenwriter and author Barbra Streisand born 1942 singer and actress 13 The Underachievers rappers Unlocking the Truth heavy metal group 70 Michael K Williams born 1966 actor 71 72 References Edit nbsp Media related to East Flatbush Brooklyn at Wikimedia Commons a b NYC Planning Community Profiles communityprofiles planning nyc gov New York City Department of City Planning Retrieved April 7 2018 a b Table PL P5 NTA Total Population and Persons Per Acre New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas 2010 Population Division New York City Department of City Planning February 2012 Accessed June 16 2016 a b Table PL P3A NTA Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas 2010 Population Division New York City Department of City Planning March 29 2011 Accessed June 14 2016 a b NYPD 67th Precinct www nyc gov New York City Police Department Retrieved October 3 2016 Current City Council Districts for Kings County New York City Accessed May 5 2017 a b New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas 2010 Population Division New York City Department of City Planning February 2012 Accessed June 16 2016 a b c Perez Luis February 16 2003 Working Class Gem in Heart of City East Flatbush s star is on the rise again New York Daily News Retrieved December 19 2016 a b c d e Jackson Kenneth T ed 2010 The Encyclopedia of New York City 2nd ed New Haven Yale University Press p 391 ISBN 978 0 300 11465 2 a b c d Paerdegat Park History New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Retrieved December 19 2016 Brooklyn Forest Is Site For Homes Paerdegat Woods in Flatbush Section Giving Way to Trump s Project The New York Times May 19 1940 Retrieved December 19 2016 Vitullo Martin Julia March 15 2007 A Once Troubled Housing Complex Seeks Change The New York Sun Retrieved September 6 2021 Goodman George W September 4 1983 Brooklyn Rehabilitation Draws Fire The New York Times Retrieved December 19 2016 a b c Newman Andy Brick Michael January 13 2004 A Long Troubled Complex Hopes to Flourish Again The New York Times Retrieved March 9 2019 Buckley Cara December 11 2010 Violations and Lockout Mire Brooklyn Complex The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 6 2021 Remnick Noah June 30 2017 Michael K Williams Is More Than Omar From The Wire The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 6 2021 Remsen Village Archived from the original on April 13 2019 Retrieved March 9 2019 a b Remsen Village neighborhood in Brooklyn New York NY 11236 11203 11212 11213 subdivision profile real estate apartments condos homes community population jobs income streets www city data com a b Daniel J Wakin Anthony Ramirez October 1 2001 Metro Briefing Brooklyn Girl Shot and Killed The New York Times Derek Watkins Alicia Parlapiano April 20 2016 The New York City Neighborhoods That Love Each Candidate The New York Times Neighborhoods The Sacred Sites The New York Times April 30 1995 Michael Wilson Ann Farmer January 23 2006 Youth Killed Leaving Party in Brooklyn The New York Times Brooklyn Community Boards Archived from the original on December 21 2007 Retrieved December 31 2007 Lucas Peterson November 11 2016 Want the Real Brooklyn Go Cheap The New York Times a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o East Flatbush Including East Flatbush Eramus Farragut Northeast Flatbush Remsen Village and Rugby PDF nyc gov NYC Health 2018 Retrieved March 2 2019 a b 2016 2018 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan Take Care New York 2020 PDF nyc gov New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 2016 Retrieved September 8 2017 New Yorkers are living longer happier and healthier lives New York Post June 4 2017 Retrieved March 1 2019 Census profile NYC Brooklyn Community District 17 East Flatbush Farragut amp Rugby PUMA NY Census Reporter July 22 2018 Retrieved July 22 2018 American FactFinder Community Facts factfinder census gov Archived from the original on February 12 2020 Retrieved January 27 2022 Community Health Profiles The Health of Flatbush Brooklyn Archived November 7 2012 at the Wayback Machine nyc gov Henke Holger 2001 The West Indian Americans ISBN 9780313310096 Mike and Molly Star Reno Wilson On His Caribbean Heritage aol on Key Population amp Housing Characteristics 2020 Census Results for New York City PDF New York City Department of City Planning August 2021 pp 21 25 29 33 Retrieved November 7 2021 Map Race and ethnicity across the US CNN August 14 2021 Retrieved November 7 2021 Little Caribbean NYC Little Caribbean NYC Flatbush to Become City s First Little Caribbean Neighborhood This Week DNAinfo New York Neighborhood Guide Brooklyn s Little Caribbean Garrett Leight Little Haiti Bk Home www littlehaitibk org Little Caribbean v Little Haiti Not So Simple to Designate a Cultural Area in Flatbush September 28 2017 New York City Subway MTA NYPD Defends Challenge Coins Dubbing East Flatbush Fort Jah August 30 2020 Retrieved December 3 2020 East Flatbush DNAinfo com Crime and Safety Report www dnainfo com Archived from the original on March 6 2019 Retrieved October 6 2016 67th Precinct CompStat Report PDF Retrieved July 22 2018 Vitullo Martin Julia A Once Troubled Housing Complex Seeks Change Flatbush Gardens The New York Sun March 15 2007 Accessed May 2 2016 A criminologist and professor of anthropology at John Jay College who produced a report on crime for the Brooklyn district attorney in 2003 Ric Curtis said Vanderveer residents nicknamed the intersection of Foster and Nostrand avenues the Front Page because the drug murders there often ended up on the front pages of local papers Engine Company 310 Ladder Company 174 FDNYtrucks com Retrieved March 2 2019 FDNY Firehouse Listing Location of Firehouses and companies NYC Open Data Socrata New York City Fire Department September 10 2018 Retrieved March 14 2019 a b New York City Health Provider Partnership Brooklyn Community Needs Assessment Final Report New York Academy of Medicine October 3 2014 Subway Map PDF Metropolitan Transportation Authority September 2021 Retrieved September 17 2021 Brooklyn Bus Map PDF Metropolitan Transportation Authority October 2020 Retrieved December 1 2020 East Flatbush BK 17 PDF Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy 2011 Retrieved October 5 2016 Rugby Library Brooklyn Public Library August 22 2011 Retrieved February 21 2019 Katinas Paula July 3 2018 Study Brooklyn Public Library needs 228 million for upkeep Brooklyn Daily Eagle brooklyneagle com Archived from the original on July 3 2018 Retrieved February 21 2019 East Flatbush Library Brooklyn Public Library August 19 2011 Retrieved February 21 2019 Mooney Jake Drum Roll for a Sign With a Reggae Beat The New York Times May 21 2006 Accessed October 11 2007 On May 10 the City Council approved a plan to hang Bob Marley Boulevard signs beneath the Church Avenue ones along an eight block section from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street Brooklyn Street Renamed Bob Marley Boulevard Archived October 11 2007 at the Wayback Machine NY1 Accessed October 11 2007 National Register of Historic Places Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties 4 27 09 Through 5 01 09 National Park Service March 5 2011 Archdeacon Tom Archdeacon Hall of Fame bound Flyers legend Roosevelt Chapman trades in basketball for billiards Dayton Daily News May 17 2019 Accessed April 6 2021 It would seem to be an unlikely kinship for a close knit Midwestern fan base and a kid who came of age he said in a tough Hispanic black neighborhood in the Bedford Stuyvesant area before moving to East Flatbush Pierre Pierre Garry At Home With Edwidge Danticat Haitian Tales Flatbush Scenes The New York Times January 26 1995 Accessed April 6 2021 So Ms Danticat her name is pronounced ed WEEDJ dahn tee CAH the author of Breath Eyes Memory her first novel which was published by Soho Press last spring and received respectful reviews set small flowered ceramic cups on a coffee table She settled into a plastic covered velour chair in the beige carpeted living room of her parents attached brick home in East Flatbush and explained that the cannelles or cinnamon sticks had been bought just blocks away from Haitian street vendors In Giuliani s Old Neighborhood Skepticism The New York Times January 29 2008 Retrieved May 2 2016 Weber Bruce 50 Years Later and Robinson Is Undimmed The New York Times April 15 1997 Accessed April 6 2021 The way he danced off third base became a metaphor for the struggle against injustice Mr Glasser said remembering that when he was growing up in East Flatbush it was Robinson not Carl Furillo or Pee Wee Reese that he and all of his friends would imitate in their sandlot ball games High Wire act The Brooklyn Paper January 5 2008 Josephs Brian Jidenna Wants You to Know What Really Makes a Classic Man Spin February 23 2017 Accessed April 6 2021 The scenes where he s staving off police officers and tutoring young men parallel those of his home community of East Flatbush where neighborhood civilians handled mild controversies like car accidents before calling the police Tempey Nathan Interview Joey Badass Is Not Excited About Gentrification Gothamist June 6 2015 Accessed April 6 2021 So you grew up in Bed Stuy and East Flatbush and I was wondering how you ve seen the neighborhoods change over the years since you were a kid Coleman Brian Check the Technique Liner Notes for Hip Hop Junkies p 257 Random House Publishing Group 2009 ISBN 9780307494429 Accessed May 10 2016 But it was true East Flatbush Brooklyn s MC Lyte Lana Moorer had just roped in her learner s permit when she sagely opined about the woes of both crack and fickle male love Dewan Shaila mmb K Body Discovered in Brooklyn Is Identified as Hunter Student The New York Times May 13 2003 Accessed October 11 2007 A body found wrapped in a blanket behind a boarded up house on Saturday was identified by the police yesterday as that of Ramona Moore a 21 year old Hunter College student who lived at home with her parents in East Flatbush Brooklyn until she disappeared in April Baker Al Goodman J David August 2 2016 James O Neill Officer Since 1983 Will Step Into Police Dept s Top Job The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved August 4 2016 Smith Rachel Holliday Hearing Dates Set for Trials of Bobby Shmurda and Rowdy Rebel Archived June 11 2016 at the Wayback Machine DNAinfo com April 22 2015 Accessed May 10 2016 A Manhattan judge set hearing dates for the trials of rappers Bobby Shmurda and Rowdy Rebel who were indicted in December on gun drug and shooting charges in connection to an East Flatbush gang Busta Rhymes Bustin Out Rolling Stone March 5 1998 Retrieved May 2 2016 Calhoun Ada Bobby Shmurda Speaks Out About His Gang Related Charges That Shit Is Bullshit Billboard magazine February 13 2015 Accessed May 10 2016 Today he was just another young man before the judge one of 13 reputed members of the East Flatbush Brooklyn alleged gang GS9 God s Sons to have his case called Brinn David Taking a Shyne to Judaism The Jerusalem Post November 12 2010 Accessed May 10 2016 Later the family moved to East Flatbush where Shyne s mother cleaned houses and took care of children to make ends meet Mini Masters of Reality Unlocking the Truth Plot Metal s Future From Their Parents Basement Spin September 12 2013 Retrieved May 2 2016 Michael K Williams My Brooklyn New York Post October 20 2013 Michael K Williams Talks Snitch Life After The Wire amp Acting Advice From 2 Pac Vibe February 22 2013 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title East Flatbush Brooklyn amp oldid 1168471612, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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