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East Flatbush, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
East Flatbush fills a stretch of Brooklyn between Crown Heights and Flatlands, edged by Empire Boulevard and New York Avenue.
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Empire Boulevard is the dividing line. North of it Crown Heights takes over, and a stay on that side leaves the East Flatbush blocks a few streets away rather than at the door. Flatbush lies just west.
New York Avenue separates the two, and the Wyckoff House sits within the blocks on the East Flatbush side of that street.
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What are the main landmarks in East Flatbush?
One landmark carries the record. The Wyckoff House stands in East Flatbush as the single named site in a neighborhood whose landmarks are otherwise its boundary streets, Empire Boulevard, East 98th Street and New York Avenue. Those lines do real work.
Empire Boulevard separates the blocks from Crown Heights, East 98th Street from Brownsville, and New York Avenue from Flatbush directly to the west.
What is the history of East Flatbush?
Heritage here has one address. The Wyckoff House is the landmark East Flatbush keeps, standing among residential blocks that spread south from Empire Boulevard toward the Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The neighborhood is predominantly Black, shaped by African American and Afro-Caribbean communities.
Its edges tell the rest. Crown Heights, Brownsville, Flatlands, Canarsie and Flatbush each take a side, and East 98th Street and New York Avenue draw the eastern and western lines.
Where is East Flatbush?
The Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road marks the southern limit, where East Flatbush gives way to Flatlands and Canarsie.
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Updated August 2026