East Flatbush-Rugby

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

East Flatbush-Rugby lies on the eastern side of East Flatbush, with Utica Avenue running through it, and keeps a name that developers chose for the area in the 1890s.

  • 0.98 square miles
  • 42,762 residents, 2020 Census
  • 183 street corners
  • 8 bus routes

At Clarendon Road and Ralph Avenue stands the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House, begun in the 1600s, whose oldest part is counted as the oldest building in New York City and State. Designated a city landmark in 1965, the house is now a museum set in an acre and a half of park. On Utica Avenue, the Rugby Library, a Brooklyn Public Library branch, opened in 1957.

Sources: East Flatbush, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House (LP-0001) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Wyckoff Museum (Wyckoff House Museum); Rugby Library (Brooklyn Public Library).

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East Flatbush-Rugby borders eight areas, and Snyder Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 183.

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  • East Flatbush-Rugby
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on eight routes stop in or at the edge of East Flatbush-Rugby.

  • 8 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B7
  • B8
  • B12
  • B17
  • B35
  • B46
  • B46-SBS
  • B47

Safety record

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

  • 2,593 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 14.2 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 2 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 60 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
54
Accessible pedestrian signals
24
Turn calming
4
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

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

  • 11,870 red-light camera tickets at six corners
  • 29,040 school-zone speed camera tickets at 18 corners
  • 14,027 bus-lane camera tickets at five corners
Most red-light tickets
Remsen Avenue & East 54th Street, 4,909
Most speed tickets
Ralph Avenue & Beverley Road, 7,568
Most bus-lane tickets
Utica Avenue & Lenox Road, 5,523

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 42,762 residents in East Flatbush-Rugby, about 43,600 per square mile.

  • 15,791 homes, 2020 Census
  • 707 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,426 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 67% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
4.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Harry Maze Playground (2.4 acres), Fidler-Wyckoff House Park (1.2 acres) and Tilden Playground (1.2 acres)
Designated landmark
The Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House

Streets and trees

Trees
3,454 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Japanese zelkova
Street with the most corners
Snyder Avenue, with 23 of the area's 183
Height above sea level
From 16 feet at Ralph Avenue & Beverley Road to 51 feet at East 38th Street & Lenox Road
Honorary street names
3 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

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

Public schools
11
Charter and private schools
9
Library
Rugby Library

Bike share

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

  • 15 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 434 major felonies at places in East Flatbush-Rugby.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in East Flatbush-Rugby

  • 438 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,197 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of East Flatbush-Rugby, the NYPD recorded another 101 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.5 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in East Flatbush-Rugby.

Map of East Flatbush-Rugby: 11 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in East Flatbush-Rugby, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of East Flatbush-Rugby, most about 1,250 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of East Flatbush-Rugby are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for East Flatbush-Rugby and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
67th (most of the area), 71st
Major felonies recorded at places in East Flatbush-Rugby, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 184 major felonies at places in East Flatbush-Rugby, against 229 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.