By Wikipedia Most post-high school yeshiva students come to Israel for the year to learn Jewish texts and tour the land. Not Joe Benun. Benun, 18, of Flatbush,…
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Flatbush is a community of the Borough of Brooklyn, a part of New York City, consisting of several neighborhoods. The name Flatbush is an Anglicization of the Dutch language Vlacke bos (vlacke = vlak = flat; "flat woodland" or "wooded plain"). The Flatbush Post Office is assigned postal zone 11226, but the area understood as included in Flatbush extends into other postal zones. The Flatbush community has been receiving an influx of immigrants from the Caribbean, mostly from Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana, Barbados, St. Lucia and Belize since the 1980s, as well as immigrants from India and African countries like Ghana, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Kenya. Haitians are the largest ethnic group in Flatbush. Prior to the arrival of these groups, the Flatbush community had already been diverse, with many Italians, African-Americans and Jews. Flatbush is patrolled by the NYPD's 67th and 70th Precincts.
