Where is East Flatbush and what is it like?

East Flatbush is a large neighborhood in central-southeast Brooklyn, bordered by Flatbush and Prospect Lefferts Gardens to the west, Brownsville to the north, and Canarsie and Flatlands to the south and east. It has a settled, residential, family-oriented character, with streets of rowhouses and small homes and busy commercial corridors along Church, Utica, and Nostrand Avenues. Anchored by a large Caribbean community and institutions like Kings County Hospital, it is a working, community-minded neighborhood offering relative affordability.