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Flatbush

Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

Flatbush
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The place

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, Midwood to the south, and Kensington and Parkville to the west. The modern neighborhood includes or borders several institutions of note, including Brooklyn College.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Brooklyn College

    2900 Bedford Ave (Subway: 2 or 5 [weekdays only] trains to Flatbush Ave or Q train to Avenue H),.

  2. 02
    Brooklyn Children's Museum

    145 Brooklyn Ave (at St Mark's next to Brower Park; Subway: C train to Kingston-Throop, A train to Nostrand Ave, or 3 train to Kingston Ave; LIRR: Nostrand Ave),.

  3. 03
    Jewish Children's Museum

    790 Eastern Pkwy (at Kingston; Subway: 3 train to Kingston Ave).

From Wikivoyage: Flatbush, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    East Midwood Jewish Center

    1625 Ocean Ave (between Avenue K and Avenue L; Subway: Q to Avenue J),.

From Wikivoyage: Flatbush, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Di Fara Pizzeria

    1424 Ave J (at E 15th St; Subway: Q to Ave J),.

  2. 02
    Saraghina

    350 Lewis Ave (at Halsey St; Subway: A C to Utica Ave or C to Kingston-Throop), info@saraghina.com.

  3. 03
    Sugar Hill Supper Club

    217 Nostrand Ave (at DeKalb Ave; Subway: G to Bedford-Nostrand Aves), toll-free: +1-844-369-6811.

  4. 04
    The Islands

    803 Washington Ave (between Lincoln & Eastern Pkwy; Subway: 2 3 to Eastern Pkwy/Brooklyn Museum),.

  5. 05
    Tom's Restaurant

    Mon–Fri 7AM–5PM, Sat 7AM–9PM, Sun 8AM–8PM.

From Wikivoyage: Flatbush, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Flatbush

Airports
John F. Kennedy (JFK), 15 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 16 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 18 km
  • Philadelphia → Flatbush
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · $12–17
  • Hartford → Flatbush
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · $15–21
  • Albany → Flatbush
    223 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · $20–28
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Flatbush

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Flatbush. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe [http://www.nywatertaxi.com Water Taxi, at Fulton Ferry Landing, provides service from various points in Manhattan along the East River.
  • Get inThe Water Taxi has service between southern Manhattan and Red Hook, often used by customers of the Red Hook Ikea.

From Wikivoyage: Brooklyn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    69 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    566 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,627 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,633 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,757 km

If you know how people move in Flatbush – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Flatbush

Flatbush is 1 km from Brooklyn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.