East Flatbush has long been plagued by economic challenges — residents faced 213 foreclosures in 2019 — but the economic dislocations from COVID-19 are hastening the pace of foreclosures and ...

East Flatbush had made long strides since the city’s most dangerous era. The neighborhood routinely saw 50 or more killings a year during the 1990s, when the city recorded more than 2,000 annual ...