East Flatbush in Brooklyn may become the city’s next gentrification hotspot.
The neighborhood, which according to the 2010 Census is 88.7% African American, was recently lauded by StreetEasy as the No. 1 most affordable neighborhood for 2023 College Grads.
Young college grads searching for their first New York city apartments should look to neighborhoods like East Flatbush; Ridgewood, Queens; and Manhattan’s Washington Heights as districts where they can find rents below $1,500 per person, the site stated.
Other areas to make the list included Brooklyn’s Bushwick, Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, and Flatbush communities, along with Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights and East Harlem, and the Astoria district of Queens. Each of these neighborhoods––except for Astoria and East Harlem––boast a median asking rent below $1,800.
“As of May, about 1 in 5 market-rate NYC rentals were affordable to recent college grads earning the median income of $62,000 for those aged 22 to 27 with a bachelor’s degree in NYC,” StreetEasy said.
Correction there are a small percentage of African Americans in the neighborhood! It’s largely Caribbean-Americans. I’m African American and there are not many here. Haitian-American, Trinidadian-Amercan very different ethnicities and cultures than African American culture