Everything about East Flatbush Brooklyn totally explained
East Flatbush is a neighborhood in the
New York City borough of
Brooklyn. The area is part of
Brooklyn Community Board 17.. Though the borders of East Flatbush are highly subjective, 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 LIRR Bay Ridge Branch, its eastern border is roughly at East 98th Street and its western border is roughly at New York Avenue.
The area was populated post 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
Jamaicans,
Trinidadians,
Grenadians,
Bajans,
Guyanese,
Panamanians and
Haitians groups coming to the area. Within its confines is the Holy Cross Cemetery on Brooklyn Avenue and Cortelyou Road through Schenectady Ave. While there are some affluent residents present, East Flatbush is mostly populated by working-class Brooklynites. Similar to other eastern Brooklyn neighborhoods, blacks predominate East Flatbush. The
crip gang is extremely prevalent and pervasive in this neighborhood. The
Star of David can be seen
tagged up on walls in Eash Flatbush. This star doesn't carry its
Jewish origin but
represents the
Crip gang. East Flatbush is the home of the former General George W. Wingate High School and Gov. Samuel J. Tilden High School. It is also home to three major hospitals,
Kings County Hospital,
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center.
In Summer 2006, the City of New York renamed a portion of Church Avenue from Remsen Avenue to East 98th Street in East Flatbush as
Bob Marley Boulevard.
East Flatbush and Flatbush
East Flatbush generally is very similar in nature to neighboring
Flatbush; so much so that some consider the two neighborhoods to be the same community. Both are predominantly Black, West Indian and working class. The one slight difference is that Flatbush has a higher percentage of White and Asian residents than East Flatbush.
While the communities themselves are generally similar in character, East Flatbush doesn't enjoy the same level of access to the subway as Flatbush. The
BMT Brighton Line and the
IRT Nostrand Avenue Line both have a number of stops located in Flatbush. In contrast, the subway at best only skirts the borders of East Flatbush. Many East Flatbush residents often have to take a train and a bus to commute to and from work.
Notable residents
Notable current and former residents of East Flatbush include:
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