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Flatbush can be described as a community pertaining to Brooklyn, New York City. It consists of numerous neighborhoods. The name can be explained as an ‘Anglicization’ of Dutch language ‘Vlacke bos’, meaning ‘flat woodland’ or ‘wooden plain’. Flatbush community is being receiving immigrants from Caribbean; Haiti, Grenada, Trinidad, Jamaica, Belize, Barbados, and Guyana in particular. This thing is going on since 1980s. At present, Flatbush is 90%25 West Indian and Black.

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