Neighborhoods
Ditmas Park
Ditmas Park is a neighborhood in western Flatbush in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, east of Kensington, and is one of threeFlatbush neighborhoods which have been officially designated Historic Districts. Located on land formerly owned by the Ditmas family that remained rural until the early 20th century, the neighborhood consists of many large, free-standing Victorian homes built in the 1900s (decade). The traditional boundary of Ditmas Park is from Ocean Avenue to East 16th Street and from Dorchester Road to Newkirk Avenue.[1] However due to the popularity of the Ditmas Park Blog and confusion over what to call the larger neighborhood, all of Victorian Flatbush is now generally referred to as "Ditmas Park". The current borders of what is now considered to be Ditmas Park are from Coney Island Avenue on the west to Ocean Avenue on the east and from Foster Avenue in the south to Caton Avenue in the north.[2] Ditmas Park is patrolled by the NYPD's 70th Precinct
