Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Flatbush, Brooklyn. Drawing of the Lefferts family's Flatbush homestead Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park to the north, East Flatbush to the east...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Ditmas Park is a historic district in the neighborhood of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York City. The traditional boundaries of Ditmas Park, including Ditmas Park West, are Ocean Avenue and greater Flatbush to the east, Dorchester Road and the Prospect Park South neighborhood ...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Beverley Square (East and West), Brooklyn. Beverley Square East and Beverley Square West, also spelled Beverly Square, are a pair of neighborhoods in the Flatbush section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Located southwest of Prospect Park within what is now called Victorian Flatbush, one...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Victorian Flatbush, Brooklyn. Victorian Flatbush is the western section of the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, bordering Midwood, that is characterized by Victorian houses. References
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a residential neighborhood in the Flatbush area of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The community is bounded by Empire Boulevard (formerly Malbone Street) to the north, Clarkson Avenue to the south, New York Avenue to the eas...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Prospect Park South, Brooklyn. Prospect Park South is a small neighborhood in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, located south of Prospect Park. It is included within the Prospect Park South Historic District, which was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1979 and...
Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery resides in Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. This small burying ground's oldest resident is Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven . Gerret was rumored to have been killed by Indians. However he met his end, Gerret died in 1645 and was buried in Flatlands. The last burials took place in the early 1950s. Find a Grave "By any measure, the Flatb...
The African Burial Ground of Flatbush was located in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. Also known as the Colored Cemetery of Flatbush, this burying ground has no physical location today. Burials are known only through obituaries, death certificates and area biographies. "In 1810, the Long Island Star published an obituary for “a negro woman named Eve, aged near 110 years,” who died in the vi...