Flatbush Mansions & more • Brooklyn, NY • 8/14/23
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- For this video I went to document Victorian Flatbush in Brooklyn, NY, which is full of beautiful historic homes, stately mansions and cool landmarks. There’s more to Flatbush, like Brooklyn College, The Junction, Kings Theater, etc, but I stayed in the Victorian zone to focus on these houses. I drifted into Ditmas Park a little also, since the cool houses just keep going, but that's still Flatbush. This area is basically Ocean Avenue on the east, Coney Island Avenue on the west, Church Avenue on the north and Avenue H on the south. The Q local subway train stops at Beverley Road and Cortelyou Road, where as the Q local and the B express both stop at Newkirk Plaza. These stations are right in the middle of this neighborhood. A few blocks east of Ocean Avenue is Flatbush Avenue, which runs all the way from the Manhattan Bridge out to the Marine Parkway Bridge, which takes you to the ocean and places like Riis Beach, Breezy Point and The Rockaways.
The detached houses built here were designed in fashionable styles including Victorian, Queen Anne, shingle style, colonial revival, neo-Tudor, Spanish Mission and Georgian, with porches and columns, and in many cases bay windows, turrets, and stained glass. The area resembles other parts of the US more than it does the rest of New York. It is one of the largest collections of Victorian houses in the country. Flatbush’s architectural splendor can be attributed to the development boom it experienced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At that time, a slew of real estate developers bought up farmland in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn and constructed residential suburban neighborhoods. This boom was spurred by many factors, including new transportation lines that connected the borough to Manhattan, the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, and the opening of Prospect Park in 1867. Developers who descended upon Flatbush wanted to create neighborhoods within the urban context that felt like they were in the country. The country within the city neighborhoods adopted the format of grid pattern streets lined with single-family homes. Prospect Park South is one of the earliest examples of this type of development and influenced other developments in the area.
Be on the lookout for a few amazing structures such as: The Japanese House, The Tara of Prospect Park, The Grandest Colonial Revival, The Sophie's Choice House and The Bed and Breakfast. Lots of amazing architecture, designs and landscaping making this a truly unique area, especially in the large, diverse NYC borough of Brooklyn. Enjoy the tour!
FEATURES:
0:00 Cortelyou Rd
0:48 Marlborough Rd
4:00 Ditmas Ave
6:09 E17th St
11:15 Ditmas Ave
12:20 E18th St
17:23 Ditmas Ave
18:18 E19th St
25:35 Glenwood Rd
26:18 Ditmas Ave
27:23 Ocean Ave
30:17 E19th St
30:47 Cortelyou Rd
31:40 Rugby Rd
32:37 Bed & Breakfast
36:03 Albemarle Rd
36:52 Argyle Rd
37:48 Albemarle Rd
38:13 Westminster Rd
39:37 Albemarle Rd
41:01 Mega Mansion
41:37 Rugby Rd
42:43 Sophie's Choice
43:53 Marlborough Rd
46:21 Buckingham Rd
48:48 The Fortress
49:42 Japanese House
50:18 Blue Bklyn Temple
51:09 Beverley Rd
52:08 Stratford Rd
53:24 Albemarle Rd - Jak na to + styl
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I went to catholic school around here over two decades ago. Missing walking by these houses on my way to school. Beautiful, historic houses owned by black people only rivaled by Laurelton and Cambria Heights in Queens. Nice to see these areas still thriving.
Enjoyed this video. I've been to the other areas of Flatbush like the Junction but never knew this quiet and tranquil neighborhood existed in Flatbush.
Yeah, it's really nice and historic. The best time to check it out is in spring when everything is in full bloom. Thx for watching!
Thanks Paul for another fantastic walk. I'm in northern California and I have never seen such grandeur homes as you show us. They are probably here somewhere, we have some gorgeous Victorians in my gold rush area, where I live, built about 1850+, but not so grand in size.
Thank you Lorna! I appreciate you watching these and I’m glad you’re enjoying all the cool houses. It’s fun to go explore and document these areas. I’ve been to NoCal before and I loved Big Sur, Mount Shasta and The Redwoods. Beautiful nature everywhere up there!
@@paulsportal1720 There sure is, the Redwoods are my favorite go to. We live in the gold country, around the Placerville area, a super quaint historic gold town, Old Hangtown.
Beautiful walk on a gorgeous day ❤️.....
Spring and summer over there is a really nice time to walk around this area.
Its nice to see the Garage is in the back of the house not Directly in the front
This was eye opening to me. I had no idea Flatbush, Brooklyn looked like this. It might as well be the suburbs on NJ.
Wow I left in the 80’s I go home every year though. I lived on nostrand Ave between Farragut & Glenwood rd. By the junction . I love that area with the pretty homes
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Great walk! Really nice homes and the area looks really peaceful.
Fully agree! A very relaxing vibe. Check out my Forest Hills Gardens video for an even more peaceful and beautiful walk. An older private historical area. Thanks for viewing!
Wow I think the train I used back then was the 3 & 4 & I caught the D when I go to Coney Island . I left in 1986
But I go home a lot . Between Bklyn & Staten Island seeing family I’m older now & live in Indianapolis. I’ll always love Bklyn .
The 2 & 5 go straight through to The Junction, but that's more the east half. This area is the Q and the B, which was the D years ago like you said. They switched the B and D lines for some reason years back.
@@paulsportal1720 aww thank you for the update !! 🥰. I’ll always love Bklyn.
Wow! Another great video! Thank you for the history lesson of the area (Learned something cool about Flatbush) and your well thought out tour of the neighborhood - fun to watch this non-rushed full detail video.... all from the comfort of my home!
Thanks for watching. Good place to bring the little ones. Good food options too. Oh yeah man!
I use to walk through these streets when I was in my early teens in the 1980's while I was a student at Ditmas Junior High School. My news paper route was on Ocean Ave from Foster Ave to Church Ave before school 6 days a week including sundays ...thanks for bringing back the memories.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Been awhile since I had a paper route myself!
My first apt. Was on Ave.k
😍😍💜💜😍😍😍 Beautiful
Pretty cool 😅
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Where are the Lords of Flatbush today!
Very much like Saratoga Springs.
I can see similarities yeah, but I wish there was a mineral spring running through here! Saratoga is a great place. Haven't been in years.
Wha block is that at the 20:07 mark? Foster?
E19th Street almost at Newkirk Ave.
@@paulsportal1720 omg my stomping grounds 😂😂😂 so many parties to
Newkirk housing by nostrand ave.
Lol . I rode by last year & It brought tears . It’s changed a lot of course.
I went to schools in Williamsburg then we moved to Flatbush. Now that’s a big change I seen all the parts of Bklyn that has got gentrified . Wow
@@kimmie1957 Yeah, the transformation of Brooklyn has been crazy. It basically started after 9/11 and never stopped. It's a trip to see places like Crown Heights or Bed-Stuy with new condos, boutiques and coffee shops. Williamsburg? Forget it. That area is like Disney Land!
@@paulsportal1720 omg yes I know , & I love Dumbo.. omg bed stuy do or die & crown heights. Forget about it! I seen it & bushwick . Even red hook I rode through going to Fulton shopping , barclay center .. I saw my nephew around linden & 93rd. We went to new Jamaican spot in New lots , omg it was so good . I miss manhattan beach too.
Hi how are you I am Bangladeshi
Wow...greetings from NYC!
Nice, who lives in these houses, jow much they custs ?