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Flatbush, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Flatbush dates from 1651 and spreads across central Brooklyn, bounded by Prospect Park, Midwood, Kensington and East Flatbush.
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Flatbush is ringed rather than centered, so the choice of block turns on which neighbor sits at the end of the street: Prospect Park at the north, Midwood at the south, Kensington and Parkville at the west. Brooklyn College pulls its own traffic. Rooms on the Brooklyn College side suit anyone with business at the campus, while 143 Buckingham Road marks the quieter end of the neighborhood.
East Flatbush closes the last edge.
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What are the main landmarks in Flatbush?
Three named sites anchor the list. The Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church carries the name of the settlement of 1651, and the Church of the Holy Innocents is the second of the two churches the neighborhood counts among its landmarks. 143 Buckingham Road is the third. That address stands apart from the churches, a single house among the named sites rather than an institution, in a quarter that otherwise measures itself against Brooklyn College.
What is the history of Flatbush?
Settlement here dates to 1651. Flatbush grew from that date into several subsections of central Brooklyn, and the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church still carries the name the settlement was given. Neighbors frame the rest.
Prospect Park took the ground at the north, East Flatbush the east, Midwood the south, and Kensington with Parkville the west, leaving a neighborhood defined as much by its borders as by its middle.
Where is Flatbush?
The neighborhood covers roughly 2.6 square kilometers of central Brooklyn, bounded by Prospect Park, East Flatbush, Midwood, Kensington and Parkville.
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Updated September 2026