Brooklyn Community Board 17 is a
New York City community board that encompasses the
Brooklyn neighborhoods of
East Flatbush
East Flatbush is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. East Flatbush is bounded by Crown Heights and Empire Boulevard to the north; Brownsville and East 98th Street to the east; Flatlands, Canarsie and the ...
,
Remsen Village,
Farragut,
Rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
,
Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' w ...
and
Ditmas Village.
Brooklyn Community Boards
, New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
. Accessed December 31, 2007. The District is delimited by East 32nd Street, Glenwood Road, Nostrand Avenue, Foster Avenue, and Bedford Avenue on the west, Clarkson Avenue, Utica Avenue, and East New York Avenue on the north, East 98th Street on the east, as well as by the Long Island Rail Road
The Long Island Rail Road , often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. With an average week ...
on the south.
The board's current chairman is Rodrick Daley, and the District Manager is Sherif Fraser.
As of the United States Census, 2020
The United States census of 2020 was the twenty-fourth decennial United States census. Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2020. Other than a pilot study during the 2000 census, this was the first U.S. census to off ...
, District 17 has a population of 133,144, down from 165,753 in 2000 and 161,261 in 1990.
Of them (as of 2020), 84.0% are African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ensl ...
, 3.0% are White non Hispanic, 1.0% Asian or Pacific Islander, 0.5% of some other race, 3% of two or more races,(7.0%) of Hispanic origins.
Approximately 50% of the population is foreign-born.
The land area is .
References
External links
Profile of the Community Board
(PDF)
Brooklyn neighborhood map
*https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3604010-nyc-brooklyn-community-district-17-east-flatbush-farragut-rugby-puma-ny/
East Flatbush, Brooklyn
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