Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Flatlands, Brooklyn.
Flatlands is a neighborhood in the southeast part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The current neighborhood borders are roughly defined by the Bay Ridge Branch to the north, Avenue U to the south, Ralph Avenue to the east, and Flatbush Avenue to the southwest.
Originally an independent town, Flatlands became part of the City of Brooklyn in 1896.
Flatlands is part of Brooklyn Community District 18, and its primary ZIP Code is 11234. It is patrolled by the 63rd Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 45th and 46th Districts.
Notable people with ties to Flatlands, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- Neil Bogart (1943-1982), founder of Casablanca Records, was raised in the Glenwood Houses project in Flatlands
- Philip S. Crooke (1810-1881), politician and attorney
- Roy DeMeo (1942-1983), Gambino crime family member
- Leonard DiMaria (born 1941), mobster and Caporegime in the Gambino crime family
- John King Jr. (born 1975), educator, civil servant and former state and federal government official
- Abner Louima (born 1966), Haitian immigrant and father, brutally assaulted by NYPD
- Chris Mullin (born 1963), former NBA basketball player, was born and raised in Flatlands
- Steven Van Voorhees (1600-1684), magistrate, first Voorhees in America
- Wolfert Gerritse Van Couwenhoven (1579-1662), New Netherland colonist and the original patentee