The Flatbush community was plunged into mourning Motzei Shabbos with the sudden petirah of Chacham Leon Gindi ZT”L, a towering talmid chochom and longtime Rav in the Syrian Jewish community. He was 79 ...

YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden petira of HaGaon HaRav Chaim Yisroel Weinfeld ZT”L, the longtime Rov of Khal Toras Chaim D’Flatbush, located on Avenue L and East 22nd Street in Flatbush. He ...

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This year's Flatbush Frolic on September 27 continues the tradition of transforming a stretch of Cortelyou Road for a neighborhood street fair.

Brooklyn (originally Breuekelen, in Dutch) was first settled in 1636 and incorporated as a city in 1843. Not long after came the village of Flatbush, which originates from the Dutch word Vlacke ...