Victorian Flatbush

The neighborhoods of Victorian Flatbush were developed in the early twentieth century from farmland in the former village of Flatbush, in response to the construction of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit line to Coney Island, and are some of the earliest suburbs.

[citation needed] Utilities and the subway were buried underground,[2] and the area was carefully laid out with tree-lined avenues, including the Flatbush Malls, and country clubs.

The detached houses, many of them large and all distinct, were designed in fashionable styles including "Victorian, Queen Anne, shingle style, colonial revival, neo-Tudor, Spanish Mission and Georgian",[3] with porches and columns,[1] and in many cases bay windows, turrets, and stained glass,[4] and the area resembles other parts of the US more than it does the rest of New York.

[3] There has been rezoning to guard against oversize buildings near Coney Island Avenue.

[14] The Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church on 19th Street in the Ditmas Park Historic District, at which Conrad Tillard is since 2018 the Senior Minister, is often used for community meetings.