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 Haitians, Jamaicans, Trinidadians, St.Lucians, Grenadians, Panamanians, Bajans, Dominican, and Guyanese
groups coming to the area. Within its confines is the Holy Cross
Cemetery, which is located at 3620 Tilden Avenue. 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 area has a
population of 84,498 and is 91.4% Black or African-American. 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.[2][3] 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. East Flatbush is patrolled by the NYPD's 67th Precinct.
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 demographics are similar, East Flatbush does not 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 take a train and a bus to commute to and from work.
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