East Flatbush is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. East Flatbush is bounded by Crown Heights and Empire Boulevard to the north; Brownsville and East 98th Street to the east; Flatlands, Canarsie and the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch to the south; and the neighborhood of Flatbush and New York Avenue to the west. East Flatbush is a predominantly African American neighborhood and has a population of 135,619 as of the 2010 United States census.
PS 181, Tilden and New York Avenues
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brownsville is a residential neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The neighborhood is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bedford–Stuyvesant and Cypress Hills to the north; East New York to the east; Canarsie to the south; and East Flatbush to the west.
The Samuel J. Tilden Houses, one of many NYCHA public housing developments located in Brownsville
A street market on Belmont Avenue in 1962, when the neighborhood still had a large Jewish presence
Local retail; the Riverdale Towers sit in the background
Van Dyke I Houses