Meanwhile, in gang news

According to local news site YourNabe.com, police are keeping tabs on two clusters of gangs responsible for a wave of crime in East Flatbush. East Flatbush runs to the south and east of PLG, but one of the gang clusters isn't all that far away; it's at Nostrand and Cortelyou. Apparently, a bunch of Crips and Bloods have been spotted around there, but that's about all we can glean from this article. So we'll have to save our lesson in how to spot a Crip or Blood (and stay the hell away from them) for a later date.

Comments

[Matt]

Using wikipedia to determine the (disputed) boundaries of East Flatbush: "Though the borders of East Flatbush are highly subjective, its northern border is roughly at Empire Boulevard and East New York Avenue east of East 91st Street, its southern border is in the vicinity of the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch, its eastern border is roughly at East 98th Street and its western border is roughly at New York Avenue."

And found out that both Busta Rhymes and Michael Jordan were born there. Who knew?

[Matt]

I was going to add that Giuliani grew up on Hawthorne Street in East Flatbush, but I looked it up. That neighborhood is called Wingate. The area was originally known as Pig Town, and was renamed in the 1950s after the construction of George W. Wingate High School.

Which is something of a relief because the cultural dissonance of Giuliani and Busta Rhymes being from the same neighborhood might be too much to process.

So...does anyone call it Wingate anymore? Or is it absorbed into Greater East Flatbush?

[Bob Marvin]

Wingate is part of E. Flatbush the way PLG is part of Flatbush, but I don't think the Wingate name is all that widely used.

AFAIK "Pig Town" used to be the eastern part of OUR neighborhood, either because people raised pigs there or (in a version I was told by a friend whose immigrant family lived on Maple IV before WW II) in a snooty reference to the Italian immigrants who lived there)