East New York was named the top neighborhood in the Big Apple for home flippers in a report released this week by the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, a nonprofit with a goal to maintain affordable housing. In 2015, 94 homes were sold in East New York with a 105 percent median gross return, according to the report.
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