We ran across this Times "If you're thinking of living in Flatbush" profile of the neighborhood from about 20 years ago:
Much of the east side of Flatbush was beset by ''white flight'' in the 1970's, but local officials said this has largely stopped and the area has again become attractive to the middle and upper-middle class.
''The Flatbush neighborhood has been discovered again,'' said Mary Kay Gallagher, a resident for 30 years and an independent real estate broker.
While demand for more reasonably priced large houses has held even, Mrs. Gallagher said, sellers who put too high a pricetag on their homes find there's a long wait between listing and closing. One client in Prospect Park South, she said, waited almost a year before closing at $375,000 on a house originally listed for $450,000.
Two things we noticed: Mostly Books store on Cortelyou Road, whose proprietor was quoted in the story, is long gone; and no sense that the label "Ditmas Park" could be applied to the broader neighborhood.
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Victorian Flatbush was such a better name then Ditmas Park.
I never heard the term "Ditmas Park" until I moved back to Brooklyn two years ago.
I spent a lot of time in the neighborhood now known as Ditmas Park in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and never heard anyone call it anything but "Flatbush" for the longest time, till I started hearing "Prospect Park South" in the late 1970s. Honestly, we didn't call it "Flatbush" much, either.
Neighborhoods didn't have names so much then. I realize this sounds bizarre but nobody thought about it.
I lived for over 20 years in one house and we never had a "neighborhood" name for it. I guess it's either Flatlands, Old Mill Basin, Mill Basin, Kingslawn or Kings Plaza.
I can guarantee you that my friends who lived in Ditmas Park never used the term either.
And we didn't know from Victorian Flatbush, either.
I agree, I lived in Flatbush for almost 25 years, either in Kensington or Ditmas Park. Most people just described it as Flatbush. When people ask me where I live I say Flatbush. The new names make people feelthe neighborhood sound more more exclusive or something. I like flatbush and plan to remain here...whatever the label.
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