Flatbush In Brooklyn, NY Walking Tour

Original Film Date: Tuesday September 3rd, 2024

I walked around the streets of Flatbush in central Brooklyn, NY for this walking tour. I start the video off at the border with Midwood and Flatbush together. The neighborhood Flatbush is bordered with Midwood, East Flatbush (subdivision), Kensington, Prospect Park, Windsor Terrace (connecting with Park Slope), Prospect Leffert Gardens, with a Little Haiti community there on the East Flatbush side, and Flatlands. East Flatbush also reaches its borders with Canarsie, Remsen Village, Brownsville, and Crown Heights. Flatbush in central Brooklyn is known for its diverse demographics of Pakistanis, Caribbean people (Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines etc.), Guyanese people, some Indians, African Americans, African immigrants (from Nigeria, Ghana, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia etc.), many Hispanics/Latinos coming in, some white people (mostly hipsters), and some Asians (such as Asian hipsters and Chinese people). Flatbush has one of the most largest and diverse Caribbean diasporas in New York, in the United States, and in the whole world with a Little Caribbean community and especially a Little Haiti community.

I filmed this video at the day after Labor Day. Many people in New York know about the Labor Day West Indies Caribbean parade taking place every year in central and north Brooklyn as its mostly a day off for most employed people and school doesn't start until later in the week for the kids. The Wyckoff House Museum in East Flatbush is very historical as a 1652 house built by a Dutch figure leader named Pieter Claesen Wyckoff (he was a Swedish-born Dutch figure leader) that became an important figure in Dutch and then English colonial areas of Kings County and Long Island in New York during the mid 1600s. This was when New York used to be called New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam) as a former Dutch colony with Dutch settlers before the English settlers arrived in and took over. Flatbush was founded in 1651 before the Wyckoff House was built in construction.

The Kings Theatre on Flatbush Ave attracts many people to see shows, concerts, and other events each time as it fits in a busy street. It was opened by Loew's Theatres as a movie palace in 1929 and closed in 1977, the theater sat empty for decades until a complete renovation was initiated in 2010. It reopened on January 23rd, 2015 to be an old-style theater with modern day events. Flatbush is another neighborhood in Central Brooklyn that's going through modern gentrification as it slowly gentrifies on the north side getting down that the experience would be around most of the community. There are new luxury apartments in the northern side, new houses built, new businesses there (like a few hipster cafes, new restaurants, stores etc.), and some new people there. We wonder what Flatbush will look like in the next 5-10 years and see how interesting it will look due to plenty of changes there.

Background song: Playboi Carti - Magnolia (Instrumental Version)