Flatlands offers a suburban feel with detached homes and quiet residential streets. Affordable compared to northern Brooklyn with improving commercial corridors.
Flatlands offers a suburban feel with detached homes and quiet residential streets. Affordable compared to northern Brooklyn with improving commercial corridors.
Did you know?
Flatlands was one of the six original Dutch towns that merged to form the City of Brooklyn in 1898 — its flat terrain is literal, sitting at near sea level.
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Housing cost
$549 / sq ft
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Flatlands keeps things low-key with a solid bench of five playgrounds scattered across the neighborhood — Fox Playground, Jacob Joffe Fields, and Power Playground give families a few different options without having to trek too far. It's not a park-heavy neighborhood in the classic sense (no marquee green space here), but what they have works. The mix is decent for a walkable Brooklyn block.
Schools & early education
Flatlands offers a solid mix of public and private options, with a noticeable cluster of yeshivas giving the area a distinct flavor. P.S. 203 Floyd Bennett School and P.S. 251 Paerdegat anchor the public elementary options, while families seeking religious education have choices like Midwood Catholic Academy and several yeshiva campuses along Kings Highway. The governance split — six public to four private — means there's reasonable variety, though as with most of Brooklyn, quality varies by individual school and you'd want to dig into specifics before relying on any single option.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Flatlands a good neighborhood for families?
- Flatlands scores 56/100 for families on Motley — near the middle of the pack citywide. The Family Fit score blends safety, schools, parks, cost of living, and community.
- Is Flatlands safe?
- Flatlands scores 52/100 on safety — near the middle of the pack citywide. We build the score from NYPD complaint data, normalized by population.
- How are the schools in Flatlands?
- Flatlands has 8 schools mapped inside its boundary and scores 64/100 for schools — ahead of most NYC neighborhoods.
- Is Flatlands affordable?
- Flatlands scores 57/100 for affordability on Motley — mid-range on cost for the city.
- Which borough is Flatlands in?
- Flatlands is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City.
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