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#390 The Story of Flatbush: Brooklyn Old and New

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

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Flatbush, New York

flatbush was a dutch village for more than a century. The families who settled here in the years of new netherland stayed well into the eighteenth century and even beyond to day. Many place names are associated with these very first farms, like bergen, ditmus martins, cortle and on and on. And there are even old dutch farms standing in the region to day,. not just near flapbush, but in many regions around brooklyn. It got a huge upgrade in the year 16 99.

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