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    WHERE FLATLANDS BEGINS

    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2023 2 comments

    EAST Flatbush and Flatlands comprise block upon block of neat, well-kept detached homes, with an occasional shopping strip and apartment building for contrast. Its southern flank, Mill Basin, was the…

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    MIDWOOD, FLATLANDS AND PARKVILLE, 2019, PART TWO

    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2023 23 comments

    Continued from Part One EMPLOYING a backlog of photos from the spring of 2019, when I got on the #2 train and took it all the way down to the…

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    LOTT HOUSE, MARINE PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2023 1 comment

    JOHANNES Lott built a small house on his Flatlands property about 1720 on land first settled by Dutchman Hugh Aerens as far back as 1636. In the 1700s, Gerritsen Creek…

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    FLATLANDS AVENUE, Brooklyn

    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2020 6 comments

    East Flatbush and Flatlands comprise block upon block of neat, well-kept detached homes, with an occasional shopping strip and apartment building for contrast. Its southern flank, Mill Basin, was the…

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    COLONIAL HOME IN FLATLANDS

    by Kevin Walsh December 17, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh December 17, 2015 1 comment

    At 1640 East 48th, near Avenue M in Brooklyn’s Flatlands section, is the colonial-era Stoothoff-Baxter House, one of a handful of Dutch Colonial homes remaining in eastern Brooklyn (Flatbush, Flatlands, Canarsie,…

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    CANARSIE TO FLATBUSH

    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2011
    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2011 40 comments

    I’m quite familiar with Canarsie and Flatlands — these neighborhoods in southeast Brooklyn were quite accessible to the Bay Ridge boy just by bicycling east a few miles, which I…

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