East Flatbush-Erasmus

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

East Flatbush-Erasmus is the westernmost section of East Flatbush, beginning at Flatbush and Bedford Avenues, and its blocks around Nostrand and Church Avenues have been nicknamed Little Caribbean since 2017, a nod to the Caribbean immigrants who settled here from the 1960s on.

  • 0.71 square miles
  • 47,690 residents, 2020 Census
  • 126 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 10 bus routes

In the courtyard of Erasmus Hall High School stands a Federal-style wooden building of 1786, where Erasmus Hall started out in 1787 as a private academy funded in part by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. It was the first secondary school chartered by the New York State Regents. Nearby on Snyder Avenue is the Victorian Gothic Flatbush Town Hall, completed in 1875.

Sources: East Flatbush, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Erasmus Hall Museum (LP-0171) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Flatbush Town Hall (LP-0770) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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East Flatbush-Erasmus borders five areas, and Rogers Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 15 of 126.

Street map of East Flatbush-Erasmus, Brooklyn, outlined among Flatbush, East Flatbush-Farragut, Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate and East Flatbush-Rugby, with its four subway stations.Prospect Lefferts Gardens-WingateEast Flatbush-RugbyEast Flatbush-FarragutFlatbush
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Winthrop St lines 2 5
  • Church Av lines 2 5 accessible
  • Beverly Rd lines 2 5
  • Newkirk Av-Little Haiti lines 2 5

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of East Flatbush-Erasmus.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 9 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • B8
  • B12
  • B35
  • B41
  • B44
  • B44-SBS
  • B49
  • B96
  • B103

Express bus route

  • BM2

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,742 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 13.8 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 5 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 53 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
50
Accessible pedestrian signals
17
Turn calming
10
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more bus-lane camera tickets than school-zone speed or red-light tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 10,430 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 35,028 bus-lane camera tickets at five corners
Most speed tickets
Nostrand Avenue & Tilden Avenue, 2,627
Most bus-lane tickets
Linden Boulevard & Rogers Avenue, 11,430

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 47,690 residents in East Flatbush-Erasmus, about 67,200 per square mile.

  • 19,105 homes, 2020 Census
  • 5,222 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,448 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 88% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Landmarks

Designated landmarks
The Flatbush Town Hall, the Flatbush District No. 1 School, the Erasmus Hall Academy and the Erasmus Hall High School
Historic district
East 25th Street Historic District, wholly or partly within East Flatbush-Erasmus

Streets and trees

Trees
2,458 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and littleleaf linden
Street with the most corners
Rogers Avenue, with 15 of the area's 126
Height above sea level
From 20 feet at Avenue D & Rogers Avenue to 58 feet at Bedford Avenue & Parkside Avenue
Honorary street name
1 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 16 schools in East Flatbush-Erasmus.

Public schools
9
Charter and private schools
7

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 16 bike-share stations stand in East Flatbush-Erasmus.

  • 16 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 599 major felonies at places in East Flatbush-Erasmus.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in East Flatbush-Erasmus

  • 561 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,555 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of East Flatbush-Erasmus, the NYPD recorded another 195 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 16.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in East Flatbush-Erasmus.

Police precincts
67th (most of the area), 71st, 70th
Major felonies recorded at places in East Flatbush-Erasmus, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 228 major felonies at places in East Flatbush-Erasmus, against 290 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.