East Flatbush-Remsen Village

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Where East Flatbush meets Brownsville at East 98th Street, East Flatbush-Remsen Village forms its eastern end, under a name that seems to have come into use only in the mid-1990s.

  • 0.66 square miles
  • 39,115 residents, 2020 Census
  • 122 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 8 bus routes

Kings Highway crosses the area and ends at East 98th Street, where it continues as Howard Avenue. The road began as a Native American trail, recorded in a 1652 deed as Mechawanienck, or the ancient pathway, and British troops under Lord Cornwallis marched along it on August 26, 1776, on their way to the Battle of Brooklyn. On Church Avenue, the East Flatbush Library, founded in 1945, reopened in 2023 after a full renovation.

Sources: East Flatbush, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Kings Highway (Brooklyn) (Wikipedia); East Flatbush Library (Brooklyn Public Library).

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East Flatbush-Remsen Village borders six areas, and East 98th Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 14 of 122.

Street map of East Flatbush-Remsen Village, Brooklyn, outlined among East Flatbush-Rugby, Brownsville, Canarsie and Lincoln Terrace Park, with its one subway station and Railroad Playground.BrownsvilleCanarsieEast New York-New LotsEast Flatbush-RugbyCrown Heights (South)
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  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Sutter Av-Rutland Rd lines 3

Getting around

One subway station and buses on eight routes stop in or at the edge of East Flatbush-Remsen Village.

  • 1 subway station
  • 8 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B7
  • B8
  • B12
  • B15
  • B17
  • B35
  • B47
  • B99

Safety record

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

  • 1,766 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 14.5 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 3 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 39 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
26
Accessible pedestrian signals
11
Turn calming
5
Safety Improvement Projects
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2

Camera tickets

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

  • 3,976 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 24,523 school-zone speed camera tickets at 13 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Remsen Avenue & Lenox Road, 3,976
Most speed tickets
Ralph Avenue & Snyder Avenue, 4,245

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 39,115 residents in East Flatbush-Remsen Village, about 59,300 per square mile.

  • 15,430 homes, 2020 Census
  • 137 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,323 residential lots hold buildings from 1931 or earlier, and 60% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
3.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Railroad Playground (2.3 acres), Kennedy King Playground (0.8 acre) and Howard Av Block Association (0.2 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
2,222 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
East 98th Street, with 14 of the area's 122
Honorary street name
1 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 20 schools and one library in East Flatbush-Remsen Village.

Public schools
8
Charter and private schools
12
Library
East Flatbush Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 15 bike-share stations stand in East Flatbush-Remsen Village.

  • 15 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 514 major felonies at places in East Flatbush-Remsen Village.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in East Flatbush-Remsen Village

  • 553 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,461 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of East Flatbush-Remsen Village, the NYPD recorded another 110 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 16.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in East Flatbush-Remsen Village.

Police precincts
67th (most of the area), 73rd
Major felonies recorded at places in East Flatbush-Remsen Village, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 216 major felonies at places in East Flatbush-Remsen Village, against 249 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.