Map of Flatbush, Brooklyn Actually a collection of neighborhoods, and one of the orignal Dutch settlements of what eventually became today's Brooklyn, Flatbush contains the neighborhoods of South Park Slope, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Ditmas Park, Fiske Terrace, and Beverly Square. The area is the home to Brooklyn College, rated the most beautiful college campus in the United States (Princeton Review, 2003), and Erasmus Hall High School, with many famous alumni. It was also the home of Ebbets Field, before the Brooklyn Dodgers left town (though some may consider the stadium's former location to be closer to Crown Heights, people who lived in Brooklyn during the Dodgers Era will all tell you Ebbets Field was in Flatbush). The name Flatbush derives from the original Dutch settlement name: V'lacke Bos, roughly translated as "wooded plain"
Our primary source for neighborhood names and locations is the
New York City Department of City Planning. Additional information is from Kenneth Jackson and John B.
Manbeck's book The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Brooklyn by Name by Leonard Benardo and Jennifer Weiss.
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