East Flatbush is a predominantly African American neighborhood and has a population of , as of the United States census. East Flatbush is split up into three subsections. The central section of East Flatbush is called Farragut. By the s, African Americans became a majority, along with many immigrants from the West Indies. Farragut is adjacent to Paerdegat Woods, a formerly wooded area near Paerdegat Basin where real-estate developer Fred Trump constructed housing in the s.
Remsen Village has been described as a "subsection of the larger East Flatbush neighborhood," [ 17 ] with an estimated 60, residents. The name "Rugby" was described in by the New York Times as "the old name for the area. East Flatbush is divided into three neighborhood tabulation areas Erasmus, Farragut, and Remsen Village , which collectively comprise the population of the area. Covering an area of 1, The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 1.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. Based on this calculation, as of [update] , East Flatbush is considered to be high-income and not gentrifying , relative to the rest of the city.
East Flatbush generally is very similar in nature to neighboring Flatbush , as both are predominantly West Indian and working class; however, Flatbush has a higher percentage of White and Asian residents than East Flatbush. While some residents are affluent, East Flatbush is mostly populated by working-class Brooklynites.
Similar to other eastern Brooklyn neighborhoods, Blacks predominate East Flatbush. The area is Considering this data, East Flatbush has been noted as being the single largest West Indian neighborhood in all of New York City and America as a whole. The Erasmus portion had between 30, and 39, Black residents and between 5, and 9, Hispanic residents, meanwhile each the White and Asian populations were under residents.
