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Flatlands, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Avenue U, Ralph Avenue and Flatbush Avenue draw the edges of Flatlands, a southeast Brooklyn neighborhood holding four historic named sites.
About Flatlands
Where to stay in Flatlands
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Rooms here answer to the avenues. Flatbush Avenue runs the southwestern boundary and carries the traffic toward the rest of Brooklyn, while Ralph Avenue closes the eastern side and Avenue U marks the southern limit of the neighborhood. The Bay Ridge Branch is the northern edge.
A stay near the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church puts the three landmark houses within reach of one walk, which is the main reason to choose a bed in this corner of Brooklyn rather than elsewhere in New York City. Hotel rooms in Flatlands stay scarce.
About Flatlands
What are the main landmarks in Flatlands?
Four named sites survive. Three of them are houses: the Joost Van Nuyse House, the Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhaven House, and the Hendrick I. Lott House, which together account for three of the four sites the neighborhood carries on its landmark list. The fourth is a church.
The Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church holds ground in the same grid, giving Flatlands a religious entry to set beside the domestic ones between Ralph Avenue and Flatbush Avenue.
What is the history of Flatlands?
The names on the landmark list carry the history. Joost Van Nuyse, Stoothoff, Baxter and Kouwenhaven are attached to houses that still stand in Flatlands, and the Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church carries the neighborhood's own name into the same short list. Four sites, one grid.
The Bay Ridge Branch, Avenue U, Ralph Avenue and Flatbush Avenue draw the borders around them, fixing Flatlands as a southeast Brooklyn neighborhood inside New York City.
Where is Flatlands?
Ralph Avenue holds the eastern edge, Avenue U the southern and the Bay Ridge Branch the northern, with Flatbush Avenue cutting the southwest corner of Flatlands.
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Updated September 2026