...independence. Tickets $40 in advance, $45 at the door. Dinner included. At Tropical Paradise Restaurant, 1250 Utica Ave., East Flatbush. (718) 629-3500. www.caribbean news.com/directory/tropicalparadise restaurant.html. For tickets...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 15, 2008.

...independence. Tickets $40 in advance, $45 at the door. Dinner included. At Tropical Paradise Restaurant, 1250 Utica Ave., East Flatbush. (718) 629-3500. www.caribbean news.com/directory/tropicalparadise restaurant.html. For tickets...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 13, 2008.

A week after her Sweet 16 birthday, Margaret's father ran from their Flatlands house with his badge and gun to stop Young, Ford and Cornelius Bucknor from boosting the car.

Published by New York Daily News on August 12, 2008.

Cops said Paredes' pal Roger Vado, 23, of Flatbush, threw a bottle, hitting one man, who was treated at the scene. No other injuries were reported in the station, which was packed with revelers from the Dominican Day Parade on Sixth Ave.

Published by New York Daily News on August 11, 2008.

Insurance paid for most of the repairs, and more than $700,000 in federal disaster aid went to nearly 900 Brooklyn residents and business owners.

Published by NY1 on August 8, 2008.

A police lieutenant fatally shoots a man Thursday night in East Flatbush who was allegedly trying to get away in a stolen car, News 4 New York has learned.

Published by WNBC on August 8, 2008.

The shooting occurred about 7 p.m. on Remsen Avenue in East Flatbush after officers with the Auto Grand Larceny Unit spotted a gray 2004 Mustang and checked the plates. The vehicle came up as having been reported stolen from a car dealership in East Brunswick.

Published by New York Times on August 8, 2008.

3325 Farragut Road

Published by Brownstoner on August 8, 2008.

“Third Street between Eighth and the Park, maybe. And a few of those blocks in Carroll Gardens. And don’t forget East 25th Street in Flatbush. All those blocks are greener.”

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 7, 2008.

Of the 15 ZIP codes with the most foreclosures, nine are in Queens and three are in Brooklyn, basically following a crescent-shaped corridor running roughly along the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Ocean Hill and Flatbush. The last three of the top 15 are in Staten Island.

Published by The New York Observer on August 7, 2008.

Investigators said the suspects robbed someone outside a Toys R Us on Flatbush Avenue around 3:00 Tuesday afternoon.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 5, 2008.

The blaze began in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood just before 6 p.m. Friday in the space between the building's roof and the ceiling of the top floor.

Published by WNBC on August 2, 2008.

Chopper 2 HD was over the scene just after 6 p.m. as smoke billowed out the occupied residential structure in the Flatbush section of the borough.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 2, 2008.

Dozens of families are waiting to find out when they can return home after a late night fire destroyed the top floor of their apartment building in Flatbush.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 2, 2008.

Calixta Crowder, 10, who lives in the Flatbush neighborhood, described double dutch as “medium hard” but said she liked that “whenever you mess up, you get to try again and you get better at it.”

Published by New York Times on July 31, 2008.

Police say the suspect walked up behind the 40-year-old victim as she unlocked the door to her East Flatbush, Brooklyn apartment.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 22, 2008.

In a separate hit-and-run in Brooklyn early Saturday morning, a speeding car struck Rondell Grant, Jr., 11, while he was in the street outside 608 E. 42nd St., near his home on East 43rd Street.

Published by New York Sun on July 21, 2008.

Three cars were racing down a Flatbush street as Rondell Grant Jr. was leaving a barbecue at his grandmother's house on East 42nd Street at 1:24 a.m., according to police. As he stepped to the street, two cars shot past him toward Foster Avenue, but a third, a Honda Civic, had its headlights off and struck the fifth-grader, leaving him to die in front of his horrified family.

Published by New York Post on July 20, 2008.

The incident came on the heels of an 11-year-old killed by a hit-and-run driver in Flatbush on Saturday morning.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

Two times in one day, a young child was struck by a car that then left the scene in Brooklyn. Early Saturday, an 11-year-old boy was killed in Flatbush.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 20, 2008.

Police have arrested a Brooklyn driver in a hit-and-run accident that killed an 11-year-old boy. The boy was run down just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the borough's Flatbush section.

Published by amNY.com on July 20, 2008.

The accident happened at 1:24 a.m. Saturday on East 42nd Street in Flatbush.

Published by WNBC on July 19, 2008.

The accident happened at 1:24 a.m. Saturday on East 42nd Street in Flatbush. Police responded to a report of a child struck and determined that the boy, Rondell Grant Jr., had been hit by one of three cars that fled the scene.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 19, 2008.

An 11-year-old boy from Brooklyn has been killed in hit-and-run wreck. Police are searching for the drivers of the three cars that left the scene. The accident happened at 1:24 a.m. Saturday on East 42nd Street in East Flatbush.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 19, 2008.

After hearing loud cars and curious to see what was happening outside on East 42nd Street early Saturday morning, 11-year-old Rondell Grant ran out of his grandmother's house in Flatbush and was hit by a car.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 19, 2008.

The two worked as attorneys in Brooklyn. Mrs. Petrowski-Schwartz was a divorce lawyer while her husband, Mr. Schwartz, worked as a business lawyer. Their offices are listed in the same building in Flatlands.

Published by New York Sun on July 17, 2008.

Police said there appeared to be no connection between this attack and the April 22 slaying of off-duty Correction Officer Kenny Duncan, killed when he refused to turn over his motorcycle to would-be thieves in East Flatbush.

Published by New York Daily News on July 15, 2008.

Listening to the funk trio play at the Newkirk Avenue Block Party on a recent Saturday, Mannix Gordon fondly described Flatbush.

Published by Gotham Gazette on July 14, 2008.

In Flatbush, Running with Baggage (21st Senate District): Ethnic politics could play a key role in this campaign where incumbent Kevin Parker will face off against two term-limited City Council members in search of their next political job.

Published by Gotham Gazette on July 14, 2008.

Kendall Stewart, the Caribbean-American City Council member who represents parts of Flatbush and East Flatbush in the 45th Council District, decided to challenge Parker last year, then watched as two of his own staffers became the poster children for the City Council's slush-fund scandal.

Published by Gotham Gazette on July 14, 2008.

"It's eerie," said Barnwell, a police officer who lives in East Flatbush. "They didn't go into my refrigerator, but they went up to see where my kids slept and they went through my whole house."

Published by New York Daily News on July 7, 2008.

Kidson George, 27, was at the Flatbush house party at 1 a.m. when he began talking to the woman, said George's mom, Lystra Peters.

Published by New York Post on July 6, 2008.

Officers responded to a report of a shooting on New York Avenue in East Flatbush at 1 a.m. Saturday. They found a 27-year-old man with two gunshot wounds to the torso and a 27-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the leg.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 5, 2008.

Officers responded to to a report of a shooting on New York Avenue in East Flatbush at 1 a.m. Saturday.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 5, 2008.

Officers responded to a report of a shooting on New York Avenue in East Flatbush at 1 a.m. Saturday.

Published by WNBC on July 5, 2008.

Jules Everett Tygiel was born in Brooklyn on March 9, 1949. His father and mother ran a store that sold and repaired pens, lighters and electric shavers. They lived in the East Flatbush section, not too far from Ebbets Field, home of Robinson’s Dodgers, and a place the young Mr. Tygiel first visited when he was 7.

Published by New York Times on July 4, 2008.

Neighborhoods with the greatest number of cases included Borough Park, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint and East New York.

Published by New York Times on July 2, 2008.

Neighborhoods with the greatest number of cases included Borough Park, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint and East New York.

Published by New York Times on July 2, 2008.

...another child. Red-headed Edythe was born on June 30, 1918, in a tenement at Church Avenue and East 35th Street in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Little Edythe was the cutest of the Marrener kids...

Published by Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 30, 2008.

Neighborhoods that produced the most noise complaints were Williamsburg and Flatbush in Brooklyn, Norwood in the Bronx and the East Village.

Published by New York Daily News on June 29, 2008.

Earlier this month, DUMBO joined Park Slope, Fort Greene, Carroll Gardens, Borough Park, Downtown Brooklyn, Sunset Park, Flatbush and Williamsburg by getting its very own farmer’s market.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 27, 2008.

They don’t think of huge Victorian houses sitting on tree-lined streets, but This Old House magazine may help change that after it designated Victorian Flatbush the “Best Place for City Slickers to Buy an Old House.”

Published by amNY.com on June 27, 2008.

If Bob Vila wanted to buy real estate in New York, the former "This Old House" host would probably take the Q train to Victorian Flatbush.

Published by New York Post on June 25, 2008.

Some of these organizations are started on front porches in Flatbush and never hire staff or even last very long. Some grow, raise funds and eventually incorporate as nonprofit organizations.

Published by The New York Observer on June 23, 2008.

The family and friends of a 19-year-old Brooklyn student who was beaten to death in East Flatbush by a group of ten men are calling for justice.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on June 22, 2008.

Peter Mackler, who came out of Flatbush to cover wars, diplomacy, terrorism and the back-of-the-bus intrigues of presidential elections as a wire service correspondent and editor for U.S. and French news agencies, died last week of an apparent heart attack. He was 58.

Published by New York Daily News on June 22, 2008.

One woman, Sharon Kirton, said she was entering the library’s business plan competition with a plan to manufacture soaps made using Caribbean food products. She lives in East Flatbush, and believes there is a strong market for such products among the area’s Caribbean community, of which she is a member.

Published by New York Times on June 20, 2008.

One woman, Sharon Kirton, said she was entering the library’s business plan competition with a plan to manufacture soaps made using Caribbean food products. She lives in East Flatbush, and believes there is a strong market for such products among the area’s Caribbean community, of which she is a member.

Published by New York Times on June 20, 2008.

"All that's in the fridge is bottled water," said Joseph Acquah of Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Published by New York Daily News on June 18, 2008.

The four men were arrested on Wednesday in Flatlands after officers set up a sting operation by responding to an advertisement on Craigslist, the police said.In all, police say the victims were robbed of thousands of dollars.

Published by WNBC on June 13, 2008.