Remsen Village, Brooklyn


Remsen Village, also formerly known as Rugby, is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York City. It comprises the eastern part of the larger neighborhood of East Flatbush area, and is administered by Brooklyn Community Board 17.

Name

Although it has been described as a "subsection of the larger East Flatbush neighborhood," with an estimated 60,000 residents. it has it own identity as "the Remsen Village neighborhood of Brooklyn" and also as "Rugby-Remsen Village.
Use of the name Remsen Village by residents and local organizations began before the 1970s, but more widespread use appears to have originated in the mid-1990s, with identification continuing a decade later and into the present.
The name "Rugby" was described in 2016 by the New York Times as "the old name for the area."

Location

Related to the above namings are references such as
Remsen Village's population is over one third of Brooklyn Community Board 17's, the administrative unit to which it belongs, along with "East Flatbush,... Farragut, Rugby, Erasmus and Ditmas Village."

Geographic recognition

The name is used as a geographic unit in Brooklyn
encompassing a 2+ mile distance.
There also is a "Remsen Village" in Oneida County, New York; the village is part of the town of Remsen.

Government recognition

The Real Estate industry gives recognition to Brooklyn's Remsen Village. One multiple listing service calls it "an enclave" and a "microneighborhood" with "two renowned hospitals" and "Brooklyn's only medical school".

Other recognition

A "building of the day" architectural award described its September 23, 2013 awardee as being in "Neighborhood: Remsen Village /Canarsie."

History

Brooklyn has a Remsen Street in one neighborhood, and a Remsen Avenue in another; both are named after a Dutch family "that was among the early settlers of" the borough. An article about the aforementioned cites a book named "The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn" which refers to Remsen Village.

Lower-case neighborhood

One real-estate source referred to Flatbush having "eleven neighborhoods" "many no larger than a few square blocks;" Remsen Village is much larger.