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    • About Us
    • Resources
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  • Precolonial
    • Introduction to Native Americans in Brooklyn
    • About the Native Americans
      • The Lenape Indians
      • Flatbush and the Keskachauge/Canarsie Indians
    • European Arrival
      • First Encounters with Europeans and Trade
      • Europeans Neglect Native Americans
      • Land Ownership
        • Manhattan Purchase
        • Flatbush
    • Population Decline and War
    • Native Americans Move Out
    • Reminders of the Lenape Today
  • 1600-1850
    • The Beginning of Flatbush
    • The People and Culture of Early Flatbush
      • Flatbush Demographics
      • Slavery in Flatbush
      • Education in Flatbush
    • The English Conquest
    • The Revolutionary War
      • Post-Revolutionary War
    • Bibliography and Endnotes
  • 1850-1920
    • Growth
      • From Farmland to Suburb
      • Why People Came
      • Demographic Changes
      • Real Estate Development
    • Organized Institutions
      • Corporations
      • Schools
    • Concerns
      • Crime
      • Diseases
      • Mental Illness
    • Flatbush and the World
      • The Civil War
      • Prohibition and Suffrage
      • World War I
  • 1920-1964
    • Flatbush Avenue
      • Residential Development
      • Commercial Activity
      • Cultural Icons
      • Crime
      • Immigration
    • Religion
    • Racism
  • 1965-2000
    • Timeline 1965-2000
    • White Flight
    • West Indian Migration and Flatbush Revival
    • Abner Louima
    • Korean Black Racial Tensions
  • 2000-present
    • Welcome to Present Day Flatbush
    • West Indians in Flatbush
    • South Asians in Flatbush
    • Gentrification

Flatbush 1965-2000

May 14, 2015 / jvarughese2000

1965-2000

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The Peopling of Flatbush was created during the Spring 2015 semester by students from the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College, Class of 2018, as part of the seminar course The Peopling of New York City.

Precolonial era: Jasmine Lee and Farzana Ruzehaji

Colonial era to 1850: Keren Goldberger, Rebecca Kurtz, Jenny Park, Jennifer Tam

1850 to 1920: Jason Beda, Margaret Iuni, Kristen Walsh, Miriam Zami

1920 to 1964: Jeanette Eliezer, Asif Mahmud, Marielle Salem, Norma Sutton

1965-2000: Diana Kapkayeva, Justin Varughese, Amy Yedid

2000-2015: Heather Alper, Elisabeth Farkas, Wajiha Kazmi, Simran Patel

Instructional Technology Fellow: Margaret Galvan

Professor: Paul Moses

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