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class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:144_South_Oxford_Street.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Historic building at 144 South Oxford Street"><img alt="Historic building at 144 South Oxford Street" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/144_South_Oxford_Street.jpg/250px-144_South_Oxford_Street.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/144_South_Oxford_Street.jpg/375px-144_South_Oxford_Street.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/144_South_Oxford_Street.jpg/500px-144_South_Oxford_Street.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2359" data-file-height="2298" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Historic building at 144 South Oxford Street</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 300px; height: 200px;" 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.geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&params=40.687_N_73.975_W_type:city_region:US-NY"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">40°41′13″N</span> <span class="longitude">73°58′30″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">40.687°N 73.975°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">40.687; -73.975</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of 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title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Community_boards_of_Brooklyn" title="Community boards of Brooklyn">Community District</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Community_Board_2" title="Brooklyn Community Board 2">Brooklyn 2</a><sup id="cite_ref-NYCPlanning_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYCPlanning-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Namesake" title="Namesake">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data">A fort named after <a href="/wiki/Nathanael_Greene" title="Nathanael Greene">Nathanael Greene</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1.42 km<sup>2</sup> (0.548 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-PFF_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PFF-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">32,938</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">23,000/km<sup>2</sup> (60,000/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Ethnicity<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-PFF_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PFF-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • White</th><td class="infobox-data">34.5%</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Black</th><td class="infobox-data">30.0%</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Hispanic</th><td class="infobox-data">17.0%</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Asian</th><td class="infobox-data">11.9%</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Others</th><td class="infobox-data">6.6%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Economics<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-PFF_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PFF-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Median_household_income" class="mw-redirect" title="Median household income">Median income</a></th><td class="infobox-data">$107,633</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%925" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−5">UTC−5</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%924" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−4">UTC−4</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">EDT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ZIP_Code" title="ZIP Code">ZIP Codes</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">11238, 11201, 11205, 11217</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_codes_718,_347,_and_929" title="Area codes 718, 347, and 929">718, 347, 929</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Area_code_917" title="Area code 917">917</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Fort Greene</b> is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> <a href="/wiki/Borough_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough (New York City)">borough</a> of <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>. The neighborhood is bounded by <a href="/wiki/Flushing_Avenue" title="Flushing Avenue">Flushing Avenue</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Navy_Yard" title="Brooklyn Navy Yard">Brooklyn Navy Yard</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Flatbush_Avenue_Extension" class="mw-redirect" title="Flatbush Avenue Extension">Flatbush Avenue Extension</a> and <a href="/wiki/Downtown_Brooklyn" title="Downtown Brooklyn">Downtown Brooklyn</a> to the west, <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Avenue_(New_York_City)" title="Atlantic Avenue (New York City)">Atlantic Avenue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prospect_Heights,_Brooklyn" title="Prospect Heights, Brooklyn">Prospect Heights</a> to the south, and <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_Avenue_(Brooklyn)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vanderbilt Avenue (Brooklyn)">Vanderbilt Avenue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clinton_Hill,_Brooklyn" title="Clinton Hill, Brooklyn">Clinton Hill</a> to the east. The <a href="/wiki/Fort_Greene_Historic_District" title="Fort Greene Historic District">Fort Greene Historic District</a> is listed on the New York State Registry and on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a>, and is a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Landmarks_Preservation_Commission" title="New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission">New York City designated historic district</a>. </p><p>The neighborhood is named after an <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> era <a href="/wiki/Fort" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort">fort</a> that was built in 1776 under the supervision of General <a href="/wiki/Nathanael_Greene" title="Nathanael Greene">Nathanael Greene</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> General Greene aided General <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island" title="Battle of Long Island">Battle of Long Island</a> in 1776. <a href="/wiki/Fort_Greene_Park" title="Fort Greene Park">Fort Greene Park</a>, originally called "Washington Park" is Brooklyn's first. In 1864, Fort Greene Park was redesigned by <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted" title="Frederick Law Olmsted">Frederick Law Olmsted</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calvert_Vaux" title="Calvert Vaux">Calvert Vaux</a>; the park notably includes the <a href="/wiki/Prison_Ship_Martyrs%27_Monument" title="Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument">Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument</a> and <a href="/wiki/Crypt" title="Crypt">crypt</a>, which honors some 11,500 patriots who died aboard <a href="/wiki/British_prison_ships_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="British prison ships (New York)">British prison ships</a> during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>. </p><p>Fort Greene contains many examples of mid-19th century <a href="/wiki/Italianate_architecture#United_States" title="Italianate architecture">Italianate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastlake_style" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastlake style">Eastlake</a> architecture, most of which is well preserved. It is known for its many tree-lined streets and elegant low-rise housing. Fort Greene is also home to the <a href="/wiki/Williamsburgh_Savings_Bank_Tower" title="Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower">Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower</a>, which, for over 80 years, was the tallest building in Brooklyn.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The neighborhood is close to the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Terminal" title="Atlantic Terminal">Atlantic Terminal</a> station of the <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Rail_Road" title="Long Island Rail Road">Long Island Rail Road</a> and has access to many <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Subway" title="New York City Subway">New York City Subway</a> services. </p><p>Fort Greene is part of <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Community_Board_2" title="Brooklyn Community Board 2">Brooklyn Community District 2</a>, and its primary <a href="/wiki/ZIP_Code" title="ZIP Code">ZIP Codes</a> are 11201, 11205, 11217, and 11238.<sup id="cite_ref-NYCPlanning_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYCPlanning-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is patrolled by the 88th Precinct of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" title="New York City Police Department">New York City Police Department</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYPD_88th_Precinct_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYPD_88th_Precinct-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Politically it is represented by the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Council" title="New York City Council">New York City Council</a>'s 35th District.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fort Greene is a historically African-American neighborhood that has been significantly gentrified over the years, with the Black population decreasing from 41.8% in 2000 to 25.8% in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-3"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BrooklynMap1766.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/BrooklynMap1766.jpg/250px-BrooklynMap1766.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/BrooklynMap1766.jpg/375px-BrooklynMap1766.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/BrooklynMap1766.jpg/500px-BrooklynMap1766.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1882" data-file-height="1629" /></a><figcaption>1766 map of <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In approximately A.D. 800, a gradual movement of <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native Americans</a> advanced from the <a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a> area into lower <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, ultimately settling as part of the <a href="/wiki/Canarsie_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Canarsie Indians">Canarsie tribe</a> among 13 tribes of the <a href="/wiki/Algonquian_peoples" title="Algonquian peoples">Algonquin Nation</a>. In 1637, <a href="/wiki/Walloon_church" title="Walloon church">Walloon reformed</a> <a href="/wiki/Joris_Jansen_Rapelje" title="Joris Jansen Rapelje">Joris Jansen Rapelje</a> purchased 335 acres (1.36 km<sup>2</sup>) of Native American land from <a href="/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company" title="Dutch West India Company">Dutch West India Company</a> in the area of Brooklyn that became known as <a href="/wiki/Wallabout_Bay" title="Wallabout Bay">Wallabout Bay</a> (from Waal Boght or "Bay of Walloons").<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is the area where the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Navy_Yard" title="Brooklyn Navy Yard">Brooklyn Navy Yard</a> now stands on the northern border of Fort Greene. An <a href="/wiki/Italian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian people">Italian</a> immigrant named <a href="/wiki/Pietro_Cesare_Alberti" title="Pietro Cesare Alberti">Peter Caesar Alberti</a> started a <a href="/wiki/Tobacco_plantation" class="mw-redirect" title="Tobacco plantation">tobacco plantation</a> near the bay in Fort Greene in 1649 but was killed six years later by Native Americans. In 1776, under the supervision of General <a href="/wiki/Nathanael_Greene" title="Nathanael Greene">Nathanael Greene</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> era Fort Putnam was constructed. Later renamed after Greene, the fort was a star-shaped earthwork that mounted six 18-pound cannons, and was the largest on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>. After the American defeat in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island" title="Battle of Long Island">Battle of Long Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> withdrew his troops from the Fort under the cover of darkness, a brilliant move that saved the outnumbered American army from total defeat by the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British</a>. Although the fort was repaired in advance of an expected attack on Brooklyn by the British during the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>, it thereafter slowly deteriorated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Settlement">Settlement</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Football_at_Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn,_ca._1872-1887._(5832935347).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Football_at_Fort_Greene%2C_Brooklyn%2C_ca._1872-1887._%285832935347%29.jpg/250px-Football_at_Fort_Greene%2C_Brooklyn%2C_ca._1872-1887._%285832935347%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Football_at_Fort_Greene%2C_Brooklyn%2C_ca._1872-1887._%285832935347%29.jpg/375px-Football_at_Fort_Greene%2C_Brooklyn%2C_ca._1872-1887._%285832935347%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Football_at_Fort_Greene%2C_Brooklyn%2C_ca._1872-1887._%285832935347%29.jpg/500px-Football_at_Fort_Greene%2C_Brooklyn%2C_ca._1872-1887._%285832935347%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="758" /></a><figcaption>Football at Fort Greene, circa 1872–1887</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1801, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal government in the United States">U.S. government</a> purchased land on Wallabout Bay for the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Navy_Yard" title="Brooklyn Navy Yard">Brooklyn Navy Yard</a>, stimulating some growth in the area. <a href="/wiki/Ferry" title="Ferry">Ferry</a> service linking <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> and Brooklyn launched in 1814, and Brooklyn's population exploded from 4,000 to nearly 100,000 by 1850.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Fort Greene was known as The Hill and was home to a small commuter population, several large farms—the Post Farm, the Spader farm, the Ryerson Farm, and the Jackson farm—and a burial ground. As early as the 1840s the farms' owners began selling off their land in smaller plots for development. Country <a href="/wiki/Villa" title="Villa">villas</a>, frame <a href="/wiki/Row_houses" class="mw-redirect" title="Row houses">row houses</a>, and the occasional brick row house dotted the countryside, and one of them was home to poet <a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, editor of the <i><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Eagle" title="Brooklyn Eagle">Brooklyn Eagle</a></i> newspaper. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brooklyn_NY_Lafayette_Ave_Presby_PHS824.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Brooklyn_NY_Lafayette_Ave_Presby_PHS824.jpg/200px-Brooklyn_NY_Lafayette_Ave_Presby_PHS824.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Brooklyn_NY_Lafayette_Ave_Presby_PHS824.jpg/300px-Brooklyn_NY_Lafayette_Ave_Presby_PHS824.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Brooklyn_NY_Lafayette_Ave_Presby_PHS824.jpg/400px-Brooklyn_NY_Lafayette_Ave_Presby_PHS824.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2896" data-file-height="4500" /></a><figcaption>Lafayette Ave Presbyterian Church, before 1933 when its steeple was shortened</figcaption></figure> <p>Since the early 19th century, <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African Americans</a> have made significant contributions to Fort Greene's development. <a href="/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="History of slavery in New York">New York State outlawed slavery</a> in 1827 and 20 years later "Coloured School No. 1," Brooklyn's first school for African-Americans, opened at the current site of the Walt Whitman Houses. <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Abolitionism in the United Kingdom">Abolitionists</a> formed the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in 1857, and hosted speakers such as <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Douglass" title="Frederick Douglass">Frederick Douglass</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Tubman" title="Harriet Tubman">Harriet Tubman</a> and also aided in the work of the <a href="/wiki/Underground_Railroad" title="Underground Railroad">Underground Railroad</a>. Skilled African-American workers fought for their rights at the Navy Yard during the tumultuous <a href="/wiki/Draft_Riots" class="mw-redirect" title="Draft Riots">Draft Riots</a> of 1863 against armed hooligan bands. The principal of P.S. 67 in the same year was African American, and Dr. Phillip A. White became the first black member of Brooklyn's <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Education">Board of Education</a> in 1882. By 1870, more than half of the Black population in Brooklyn lived in Fort Greene, most of them north of Fort Greene Park. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Crowding">Crowding</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Crowding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1850s, Fort Greene's growth spread out from stagecoach lines on <a href="/wiki/Myrtle_Avenue_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Myrtle Avenue (New York City)">Myrtle Avenue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fulton_Street_(Brooklyn)" title="Fulton Street (Brooklyn)">Fulton Street</a> that ran to <a href="/wiki/Fulton_Ferry,_Brooklyn" title="Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn">Fulton Ferry</a>, and The Hill became known as the home of prosperous professionals, second only to <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Heights,_Brooklyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn">Brooklyn Heights</a> in prestige. During the 1850s and 1860s, blocks of <a href="/wiki/Italianate_architecture" title="Italianate architecture">Italianate</a> <a href="/wiki/Brick" title="Brick">brick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brownstone" title="Brownstone">brownstone</a> <a href="/wiki/Row_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Row house">row houses</a> were built on the remaining open land to house the expanding upper and middle class population. The names of the most attractive streets (<a href="/wiki/Great_Portland_Street" title="Great Portland Street">Portland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Street" title="Oxford Street">Oxford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Cumberland_Place" title="Great Cumberland Place">Cumberland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carlton_House_Terrace" title="Carlton House Terrace">Carlton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Adelphi,_London" title="Adelphi, London">Adelphi</a>) came from fine <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a> terraces and streets of the early 19th century. By the 1870s, construction in the area had virtually ended, and the area still maintains hundreds of Italianate, <a href="/wiki/Second_Empire_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Empire architecture">Second Empire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greek_Revival_architecture" title="Greek Revival architecture">Greek Revival</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neo-Grec" title="Neo-Grec">Neo-Grec</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romanesque_Revival_architecture" title="Romanesque Revival architecture">Romanesque Revival</a> and <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_Revival" class="mw-redirect" title="Renaissance Revival">Renaissance Revival</a> row houses of virtually original appearance. </p><p>As Manhattan became more crowded, people of all classes made Fort Greene their home. The unoccupied areas of Myrtle Avenue became an Irish <a href="/wiki/Shanty_town" title="Shanty town">shanty town</a> known as "Young Dublin", In response to the horrible conditions found there, Walt Whitman called for a park to be constructed and stated in a column in the Eagle, "[as] the inhabitants there are not so wealthy nor so well situated as those on the heights...we have a desire that these, and the generations after them, should have such a place of recreation..." The park idea was soon co-opted by longtime residents to protect the last open space in the area from development. </p><p>However, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> soon found that the area was too expensive for some, and that many in the area were penurious: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The poverty stricken condition of the inhabitants residing in the [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill district] of Brooklyn render it almost an unknown land.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Focusing on a certain section of the east Brooklyn area defined as "between Flushing and DeKalb Avenues, as far east as Classon Avenue and as far west as Ryerson, extending across Fulton Avenue," the Times item said the real estate boom has resulted in class conflict among a majority of the area's longtime residents (identified as "renters or squatters") and its new neighbors—middle to upper income homeowners (identified as out-priced Manhattanites attracted to the spatial wealth of Brooklyn and able to afford the high price of its grand scale Neo-Gothic brownstones.) The paper further explained the conflict as one that had existed for some time, evidenced perhaps by a letter to the editor of a local Brooklyn paper published prior to the Times profile. The author, a new homeowner, wrote: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1034237262">.mw-parser-output .stack{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .stack>div{margin:1px;overflow:hidden}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-left{float:left;clear:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-right{float:right;clear:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-left{float:left;clear:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-right{float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-left{float:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-right{float:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="stack mw-stack stack-left"><div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fgpark.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Fgpark.jpg/250px-Fgpark.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Fgpark.jpg/375px-Fgpark.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Fgpark.jpg 2x" data-file-width="490" data-file-height="278" /></a><figcaption><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1880</span> engraving of an earlier <a href="/wiki/Prison_Ship_Martyrs%27_Monument" title="Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument">Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fort_Greene_Park" title="Fort Greene Park">Fort Greene Park</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_greene_park_sunset.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Fort_greene_park_sunset.jpg/250px-Fort_greene_park_sunset.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Fort_greene_park_sunset.jpg/375px-Fort_greene_park_sunset.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Fort_greene_park_sunset.jpg/500px-Fort_greene_park_sunset.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>Sunset over the <a href="/wiki/Prison_Ship_Martyrs%27_Monument" title="Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument">Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument</a> in Fort Greene Park</figcaption></figure> </div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Perchance there are but few places about more desirable for residences, or more pleasant for our evening walks...(but) on every side filthy shanties are permitted to be erected from which issue all sorts of offensive smells...It is indeed a fact that many of the inmates of these hovels keep swine, cattle, etc. in their cellars and not an unusual circumstance to witness these animals enjoying side by side with their owners the cheering rays of the sun; whilst offal and filth of the assorted family is suffered to collect about their premises and endanger the lives of those in their neighborhood by its sickening and deadly effluvia."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Letter to the editor, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, c.1858</cite></div></blockquote> <p>Washington Park, renamed <a href="/wiki/Fort_Greene_Park" title="Fort Greene Park">Fort Greene Park</a> in 1897, was established as Brooklyn's first park in 1847 on a 30-acre (120,000 m<sup>2</sup>) plot around the site of the old Fort. In 1864, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted" title="Frederick Law Olmsted">Frederick Law Olmsted</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calvert_Vaux" title="Calvert Vaux">Calvert Vaux</a>, by now famous for their design of <a href="/wiki/Central_Park" title="Central Park">Central Park</a>, were contracted to design the park, and constructed what was described in 1884 as "one of the most central, delightful, and healthful places for recreation that any city can boast." Olmsted and Vaux's elegant design featured flowering <a href="/wiki/Chestnut_oak" class="mw-redirect" title="Chestnut oak">chestnut trees</a> along the periphery, open grassy spaces, walking paths, a vine-covered <a href="/wiki/Arbor_(garden)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arbor (garden)">arbor</a> facing a military salute ground, a permanent <a href="/wiki/Podium" title="Podium">rostrum</a> for speeches, and two lawns used for <a href="/wiki/Croquet" title="Croquet">croquet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tennis" title="Tennis">tennis</a>. The park's success prompted the creation of the larger <a href="/wiki/Prospect_Park_(Brooklyn)" title="Prospect Park (Brooklyn)">Prospect Park</a>. At the highest point of the park, The <a href="/wiki/Prison_Ship_Martyrs_Monument" class="mw-redirect" title="Prison Ship Martyrs Monument">Prison Ship Martyrs Monument</a> and vault was erected in 1908 to house the bones of some of the 12,000 Revolutionary soldiers and civilians whose bodies were thrown off British prison ships and later washed ashore. The monument, designed by the firm of <a href="/wiki/McKim,_Mead,_and_White" class="mw-redirect" title="McKim, Mead, and White">McKim, Mead, and White</a>, was the world's largest <a href="/wiki/Doric_column" class="mw-redirect" title="Doric column">Doric column</a> at 143 feet (44 m) tall, and housed a bronze urn at its apex. Restoration work on the monument was completed in the late 2000s. </p><p>On April 24, 1888, the <a href="/wiki/Fulton_Street_Line_(elevated)" title="Fulton Street Line (elevated)">Fulton Street Elevated</a> began running from Fulton Ferry to <a href="/wiki/Nostrand_Avenue" title="Nostrand Avenue">Nostrand Avenue</a>, shortening the commute of Fort Greene residents, while also blocking light and adding street noise to residents facing Fulton Street. Elevated lines also ran along <a href="/wiki/BMT_Lexington_Avenue_Line" title="BMT Lexington Avenue Line">Lafayette Avenue</a> and <a href="/wiki/BMT_Myrtle_Avenue_Line" title="BMT Myrtle Avenue Line">Myrtle Avenue</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fort Greene in the early 20th century became a significant cultural destination. After the original <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Academy_of_Music" title="Brooklyn Academy of Music">Brooklyn Academy of Music</a> in Brooklyn Heights burned down in 1903, the current one was built in Fort Greene, and opened in 1908 with a production of <a href="/wiki/Charles_Gounod" title="Charles Gounod">Charles Gounod</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Faust_(opera)" title="Faust (opera)">Faust</a></i> featuring <a href="/wiki/Enrico_Caruso" title="Enrico Caruso">Enrico Caruso</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Farrar" title="Geraldine Farrar">Geraldine Farrar</a>. At the time, BAM was the most complexly designed cultural center in <a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">Greater New York</a> since the construction of <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a> 15 years earlier. Fort Greene also showcased two stunning movie theaters, built in the 1920s: the Paramount Theater, which was ultimately incorporated into <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_University" title="Long Island University">Long Island University</a>'s Brooklyn campus; and the Brooklyn Fox Theatre at the intersection of <a href="/wiki/Flatbush_Avenue_(Brooklyn)" class="mw-redirect" title="Flatbush Avenue (Brooklyn)">Flatbush Avenue</a> and Fulton Street, which was demolished in 1971. Built from 1927 to 1929, the <a href="/wiki/Williamsburgh_Savings_Bank_Tower" title="Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower">Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower</a>, one of Brooklyn's tallest buildings, is located next to the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Academy_of_Music" title="Brooklyn Academy of Music">Brooklyn Academy of Music</a>. <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Technical_High_School" title="Brooklyn Technical High School">Brooklyn Technical High School</a>, one of New York's most selective public high schools, began construction on Fort Greene Place in 1930. </p><p>The poet <a href="/wiki/Marianne_Moore" title="Marianne Moore">Marianne Moore</a> lived and worked for many years in an apartment house on Cumberland Street. Her apartment, which is lovingly recalled in Elizabeth Bishop's essay, "Efforts of Affection", has been preserved exactly as it existed during Moore's lifetime at the <a href="/wiki/Rosenbach_Museum_%26_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosenbach Museum & Library">Rosenbach Museum & Library</a> in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia</a> by the <a href="/wiki/A._S._W._Rosenbach" title="A. S. W. Rosenbach">Rosenbach brothers</a>, renowned collectors of literary ephemera. <a href="/wiki/Richard_Wright_(author)" title="Richard Wright (author)">Richard Wright</a> wrote <i><a href="/wiki/Native_Son" title="Native Son">Native Son</a></i> while living on Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USS_North_Carolina_Fit_out_NARA_1941-04-17.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/USS_North_Carolina_Fit_out_NARA_1941-04-17.jpg/250px-USS_North_Carolina_Fit_out_NARA_1941-04-17.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/USS_North_Carolina_Fit_out_NARA_1941-04-17.jpg/375px-USS_North_Carolina_Fit_out_NARA_1941-04-17.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/USS_North_Carolina_Fit_out_NARA_1941-04-17.jpg/500px-USS_North_Carolina_Fit_out_NARA_1941-04-17.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="430" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/USS_North_Carolina_(BB-55)" title="USS North Carolina (BB-55)">USS North Carolina</a></i> in the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Navy_Yard" title="Brooklyn Navy Yard">Brooklyn Navy Yard</a> in 1941</figcaption></figure> <p>During World War II, the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Navy_Yard" title="Brooklyn Navy Yard">Brooklyn Navy Yard</a> employed more than 71,000 people. Due to the resulting demand for housing, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Housing_Authority" title="New York City Housing Authority">New York City Housing Authority</a> built 35 brick buildings between 1941 and 1944 ranging in height from six to fifteen stories collectively called the Fort Greene Houses. Production at the yard declined significantly after the war and many of the workers either moved on or fell on hard times. In 1957–58, the houses were renovated and divided into the Walt Whitman Houses and the Raymond V. Ingersoll Houses. One year later. <i><a href="/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a></i> profiled the housing project as "one of the starkest examples" of the failures of <a href="/wiki/Public_housing" title="Public housing">public housing</a>. The article painted a picture of broken windows, cracked walls, flickering or inoperative lighting, and elevators being used as toilets. Further depressing the area was the decommissioning of the Navy Yard in 1966 and dismantling of the Myrtle Avenue elevated train in 1969 which made the area much less attractive to Manhattan commuters. </p><p>From the 1960s through the 1980s, Fort Greene fought hard times that came with citywide poverty, <a href="/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City" title="Crime in New York City">crime</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Crack_epidemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Crack epidemic">crack epidemic</a>. While some houses were abandoned, artists, preservationists and Black professionals began to claim and restore the neighborhood in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Herbert Scott Gibson, a resident of the street called Washington Park, organized the Fort Greene Landmarks Preservation Committee which successfully lobbied for the establishment of <a href="/wiki/Historic_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic District">Historic District</a> status. The <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Landmarks_Preservation_Commission" title="New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission">New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission</a> designated two districts, the Fort Greene and BAM Historic Districts, in 1978. <a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee">Spike Lee</a> established his <a href="/wiki/40_Acres_%26_A_Mule_Filmworks" class="mw-redirect" title="40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks">40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks</a> company in Fort Greene in the mid 1980s, further strengthening the resurgence of the neighborhood. From 1981 to 1997, this resurgence included the <a href="/wiki/South_Oxford_Tennis_Club" title="South Oxford Tennis Club">South Oxford Tennis Club</a>, which became an important cultural hub.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Fort_Greene_Historic_District" title="Fort Greene Historic District">Fort Greene Historic District</a> was listed on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> in 1983 and expanded in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-nris_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nris-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a historically African-American neighborhood, the cultural revival in the 1980s and 1990s has often been compared to that of the Harlem Renaissance.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:659_Fulton_Street_fr_Ashland_%26_Lafayette_jeh.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/659_Fulton_Street_fr_Ashland_%26_Lafayette_jeh.jpg/200px-659_Fulton_Street_fr_Ashland_%26_Lafayette_jeh.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/659_Fulton_Street_fr_Ashland_%26_Lafayette_jeh.jpg/300px-659_Fulton_Street_fr_Ashland_%26_Lafayette_jeh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/659_Fulton_Street_fr_Ashland_%26_Lafayette_jeh.jpg/400px-659_Fulton_Street_fr_Ashland_%26_Lafayette_jeh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1498" data-file-height="1997" /></a><figcaption>Residential buildings at Ashland Place and Lafayette Street pictured in 2013</figcaption></figure> <p>The late 1990s and early 2000s saw the influx of many new residents and businesses to Fort Greene. While issues of gentrification are raised with the Black population steeply declining from 41.8% in 2000 to 25.8% in 2017 (according to the <a href="/wiki/Furman_Center_for_Real_Estate_and_Urban_Policy" title="Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy">Furman Center</a> at New York University),<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fort Greene stands to others as one of the best examples of a racially and economically diverse neighborhood. Commentary in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> referred to the neighborhood as having a "prevailing sense of racial amity that intrigues sociologists and attracts middle-class residents from other parts of the city".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/GQ" title="GQ">GQ</a></i> describes it as "one of the rare racial <a href="/wiki/Mucous_membrane" title="Mucous membrane">mucous membranes</a> in the five boroughs—it's getting white-ified but isn't there yet, and so is temporarily integrated".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The controversial <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Park,_Brooklyn" title="Pacific Park, Brooklyn">Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park</a> project to build an arena (later known as the <a href="/wiki/Barclays_Center" title="Barclays Center">Barclays Center</a>) for the then-New Jersey Nets (now the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets" title="Brooklyn Nets">Brooklyn Nets</a>) and a complex of large commercial and residential high-rises on the border of Fort Greene and <a href="/wiki/Prospect_Heights,_Brooklyn" title="Prospect Heights, Brooklyn">Prospect Heights</a> garnered opposition from many neighborhood residents who formed coalitions. </p><p>In 1994 <a href="/wiki/Forest_City_Enterprises" class="mw-redirect" title="Forest City Enterprises">Forest City Ratner</a> promised that the project, which would be funded by taxpayers, would bring 2,250 units of affordable housing, 10,000 jobs, publicly accessible open space, and would stimulate development within ten years.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, four of the fifteen planned buildings had opened, but the deadline was delayed by about 10 years from 2025 to 2035.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fort Greene and Clinton Hill was the focus of The Local, a blog produced by <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> in collaboration with <a href="/wiki/CUNY_Graduate_School_of_Journalism" class="mw-redirect" title="CUNY Graduate School of Journalism">CUNY Graduate School of Journalism</a>. It relied on community participation with content written by CUNY students and members of the community.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 2001 to 2011, it was home to a popular bar called <a href="/wiki/Moe%27s_bar_and_lounge" class="mw-redirect" title="Moe's bar and lounge">Moe's</a>, frequented by journalists, artists, cooks, and people in the entertainment industry. It closed and was replaced by a new bar, controversially called Mo's.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, a group of anonymous artists <a href="/wiki/Guerilla_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Guerilla art">illicitly installed</a> a 100-pound <a href="/wiki/Bust_of_Edward_Snowden" title="Bust of Edward Snowden">bust of Edward Snowden</a>, the <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a> leaker, atop one of the four columns at the edge of the <a href="/wiki/Prison_Ship_Martyrs%27_Monument" title="Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument">Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fort_Greene_Park" title="Fort Greene Park">Fort Greene Park</a>, using a permanent adhesive. It was removed the same day by Parks Department personnel.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Based on data from the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 United States Census">2010 United States Census</a>, the population of Fort Greene was 26,079, a decrease of 2,256 (8.0%) from the 28,335 counted in <a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 United States Census">2000</a>. Covering an area of 378.73 acres (153.27 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 68.9 inhabitants per acre (44,100/sq mi; 17,000/km<sup>2</sup>).<sup id="cite_ref-PLP5_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PLP5-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 52% <a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a>, 20% <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">African American</a>, 0.3% <a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a>, 11% <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a>, 0.0% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a>, 0.3% from <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">other races</a>, and 3.3% from two or more races. <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> of any race were 12% of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-PLP3A_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PLP3A-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The entirety of Community Board 2, which comprises Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights, had 117,046 inhabitants as of <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Health_and_Mental_Hygiene" title="New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene">NYC Health</a>'s 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 80.6 years.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2, 20">: 2, 20 </span></sup> This is slightly lower than the median <a href="/wiki/Life_expectancy" title="Life expectancy">life expectancy</a> of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.<sup id="cite_ref-:21_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:21-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 53 (PDF p. 84)">: 53 (PDF p. 84) </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 15% are between the ages of 0–17, 44% between 25–44, and 20% between 45–64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 9% and 12% respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2">: 2 </span></sup> </p><p>As of 2016, the median <a href="/wiki/Household_income" class="mw-redirect" title="Household income">household income</a> in Community Board 2 was $56,599.<sup id="cite_ref-CB14PUMA_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CB14PUMA-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, an estimated 22% of Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights residents lived in poverty, compared to 21% in all of Brooklyn and 20% in all of New York City. One in twelve residents (8%) were unemployed, compared to 9% in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 39% in Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights, lower than the citywide and borough-wide rates of 52% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not <a href="/wiki/Gentrification" title="Gentrification">gentrifying</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 7">: 7 </span></sup> </p><p>According to the 2020 census data from <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_City_Planning" title="New York City Department of City Planning">New York City Department of City Planning</a>, there are between 10,000 to 19,999 White residents, and the Hispanic, Black and Asian populations are each between 5,000 to 9,999 residents.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some news articles from the mid 2010s to 2021 have spoken about the significant growing Asian population, especially the Chinese speaking population and most particularly in the affordable <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Housing_Authority" title="New York City Housing Authority">NYCHA</a> housing developments of <a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman_Houses" title="Walt Whitman Houses">Walt Whitman Houses</a> and Ingersoll Houses.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries">Boundaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_Fort_Greene_jeh.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/New_Fort_Greene_jeh.JPG/220px-New_Fort_Greene_jeh.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/New_Fort_Greene_jeh.JPG/330px-New_Fort_Greene_jeh.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/New_Fort_Greene_jeh.JPG/440px-New_Fort_Greene_jeh.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Fort Greene Park playground in 2008</figcaption></figure> <p>Although there are no official neighborhood boundaries in New York City,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fort Greene is roughly bounded by <a href="/wiki/Flushing_Avenue" title="Flushing Avenue">Flushing Avenue</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Flatbush_Avenue" title="Flatbush Avenue">Flatbush Avenue</a> to the west, <a href="/wiki/Vanderbilt_Avenue" title="Vanderbilt Avenue">Vanderbilt Avenue</a> to the east, and <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Avenue_(New_York_City)" title="Atlantic Avenue (New York City)">Atlantic Avenue</a> to the south.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its main arteries are Fulton Street, Lafayette Avenue, and <a href="/wiki/DeKalb_Avenue" title="DeKalb Avenue">DeKalb Avenue</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn%E2%80%93Queens_Expressway" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn–Queens Expressway">Brooklyn–Queens Expressway</a> (<a href="/wiki/Interstate_278" title="Interstate 278">Interstate 278</a>) passes through the neighborhood's northern edge.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2015 survey by <a href="/wiki/DNAinfo" title="DNAinfo">DNAinfo</a> found that local residents disagreed over the neighborhood's precise boundaries; more recent residents were more likely to push the northern boundary south toward Myrtle Avenue and the eastern boundary east toward Classon Avenue.<sup id="cite_ref-Goldensohn_2015_o471_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goldensohn_2015_o471-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Police_and_crime">Police and crime</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Police and crime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fort Greene is patrolled by the 88th Precinct of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" title="New York City Police Department">NYPD</a>, located at 298 Classon Avenue.<sup id="cite_ref-NYPD_88th_Precinct_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYPD_88th_Precinct-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A second precinct building, the 84th Precinct at 301 Gold Street,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is physically located in Fort Greene but does not serve the neighborhood.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 88th Precinct ranked 64th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. This was attributed to a high rate of crimes relative to its low population, especially in the public housing developments in Fort Greene.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, with a non-fatal assault rate of 40 per 100,000 people, Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights' rate of <a href="/wiki/Violent_crime" title="Violent crime">violent crimes</a> per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 401 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 8">: 8 </span></sup> </p><p>The 88th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 82.9% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 1 murder, 12 rapes, 100 robberies, 181 felony assaults, 101 burglaries, 402 grand larcenies, and 48 grand larcenies auto in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fire_safety">Fire safety</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Fire safety"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fort Greene is served by two <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Fire_Department" title="New York City Fire Department">New York City Fire Department</a> (FDNY) fire stations.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Engine Co. 207/Ladder Co. 110/Satellite 6/Battalion 31/Division 11 is located at 172 Tillary Street, serving the western part of the neighborhood,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while Engine Co. 210 is located at 160 Carlton Avenue, serving the eastern part of the neighborhood.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health">Health</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Health"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, <a href="/wiki/Preterm_birth" title="Preterm birth">preterm births</a> and births to teenage mothers are less common in Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights than in other places citywide. In Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights, there were 74 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 11.6 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 11">: 11 </span></sup> Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights have a relatively low population of residents who are <a href="/wiki/Health_insurance_coverage_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance coverage in the United States">uninsured</a>, or who receive healthcare through <a href="/wiki/Medicaid" title="Medicaid">Medicaid</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:14_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:14-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 4%, which is lower than the citywide rate of 12%. However, this estimate was based on a small sample size.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 14">: 14 </span></sup> </p><p>The concentration of <a href="/wiki/Particulates" title="Particulates">fine particulate matter</a>, the deadliest type of <a href="/wiki/Air_pollution" title="Air pollution">air pollutant</a>, in Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights is 0.0088 milligrams per cubic metre (8.8<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>−9</sup> oz/cu ft), lower than the citywide and boroughwide averages.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 9">: 9 </span></sup> Eleven percent of Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights residents are <a href="/wiki/Smoking" title="Smoking">smokers</a>, which is slightly lower than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 13">: 13 </span></sup> In Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights, 24% of residents are <a href="/wiki/Obesity" title="Obesity">obese</a>, 6% are <a href="/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus" class="mw-redirect" title="Diabetes mellitus">diabetic</a>, and 25% have <a href="/wiki/Hypertension" title="Hypertension">high blood pressure</a>—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 16">: 16 </span></sup> In addition, 14% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 12">: 12 </span></sup> </p><p>Eighty-eight percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is slightly higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 86% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", more than the city's average of 78%.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 13">: 13 </span></sup> For every supermarket in Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights, there are 12 <a href="/wiki/Convenience_store" title="Convenience store">bodegas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 10">: 10 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post_offices_and_ZIP_Codes">Post offices and ZIP Codes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Post offices and ZIP Codes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_Greene_Brooklyn_NY_assorted_photos_near_Fulton_Street_7_streets_and_planters.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Fort_Greene_Brooklyn_NY_assorted_photos_near_Fulton_Street_7_streets_and_planters.jpg/200px-Fort_Greene_Brooklyn_NY_assorted_photos_near_Fulton_Street_7_streets_and_planters.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Fort_Greene_Brooklyn_NY_assorted_photos_near_Fulton_Street_7_streets_and_planters.jpg/300px-Fort_Greene_Brooklyn_NY_assorted_photos_near_Fulton_Street_7_streets_and_planters.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Fort_Greene_Brooklyn_NY_assorted_photos_near_Fulton_Street_7_streets_and_planters.jpg/400px-Fort_Greene_Brooklyn_NY_assorted_photos_near_Fulton_Street_7_streets_and_planters.jpg 2x" data-file-width="837" data-file-height="933" /></a><figcaption>Streetscape near Fulton Street</figcaption></figure><p>Fort Greene is covered by <a href="/wiki/ZIP_Code" title="ZIP Code">ZIP Codes</a> 11201, 11205, 11217, and 11238, which respectively cover the northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast parts of the neighborhood.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Post_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Post Office">United States Post Office</a> operates three locations nearby: the Times Plaza Station at 539 Atlantic Avenue,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Times Plaza Annex at 594 Dean Street,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Adelphi Station at 950 Fulton Street.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights generally have a higher ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>. The majority of residents (64%) have a college education or higher, while 11% have less than a high school education and 25% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 40% of Brooklynites and 38% of city residents have a college education or higher.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> The percentage of Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights students excelling in math rose from 27 percent in 2000 to 50 percent in 2011, and reading achievement rose from 34% to 41% during the same time period.<sup id="cite_ref-:17_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:17-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights' rate of elementary school student absenteeism is about equal to the rest of New York City. In Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights, 20% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per <a href="/wiki/School_year" class="mw-redirect" title="School year">school year</a>, the same as the citywide average.<sup id="cite_ref-:21_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:21-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 24 (PDF p. 55)">: 24 (PDF p. 55) </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> Additionally, 75% of high school students in Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights graduate on time, equal to the citywide average.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_23-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Educational_and_cultural_institutions">Educational and cultural institutions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Educational and cultural institutions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fort Greene is home to <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Technical_High_School" title="Brooklyn Technical High School">Brooklyn Technical High School</a>, one of New York City's most competitive public schools,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Bishop_Loughlin_Memorial_High_School" title="Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School">Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School</a>. <a href="/wiki/Success_Academy_Charter_Schools" title="Success Academy Charter Schools">Success Academy Charter Schools</a> opened Success Academy Fort Greene in 2013 as an elementary school.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are two public elementary schools serving the area: PS 20, which also serves Clinton Hill, and The Urban Academy of Arts and Letters, open to all students in school district 13.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The prestigious <a href="/wiki/Pratt_Institute" title="Pratt Institute">Pratt Institute</a> is in neighboring <a href="/wiki/Clinton_Hill,_Brooklyn" title="Clinton Hill, Brooklyn">Clinton Hill</a>. </p><p>Fort Greene is also home to the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Academy_of_Music" title="Brooklyn Academy of Music">Brooklyn Academy of Music</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Music_School" title="Brooklyn Music School">Brooklyn Music School</a>, The <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Contemporary_African_Diasporan_Arts" title="Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts">Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts</a>, <a href="/wiki/BRIC_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="BRIC Arts">BRIC Arts</a>, UrbanGlass, 651 Arts performing center for <a href="/wiki/African-American" class="mw-redirect" title="African-American">African-American</a> presenters, The <a href="/wiki/Irondale_Center" title="Irondale Center">Irondale Center</a> for Theater, Education, and Outreach, the <a href="/wiki/Mark_Morris_Dance_Center" title="Mark Morris Dance Center">Mark Morris Dance Center</a> and Lafayette Church. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Library">Library</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Library"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Public_Library" title="Brooklyn Public Library">Brooklyn Public Library</a> (BPL)'s <a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a> branch is located at 93 Saint Edwards Street. The current <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_library" title="Carnegie library">Carnegie library</a> structure opened in 1908, though a library had existed in Fort Greene since 1900.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The neighborhood is served by the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Subway" title="New York City Subway">New York City Subway</a> at <a href="/wiki/DeKalb_Avenue_(BMT_Fourth_Avenue_Line)" class="mw-redirect" title="DeKalb Avenue (BMT Fourth Avenue Line)">DeKalb Avenue</a> (<span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/B_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="B (New York City Subway service)">B</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/D_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="D (New York City Subway service)">D</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/N_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="N (New York City Subway service)">N</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Q_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="Q (New York City Subway service)">Q</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/R_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="R (New York City Subway service)">R</a></span>, and <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/W_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="W (New York City Subway service)">W</a></span> trains), <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Avenue%E2%80%93Barclays_Center_(New_York_City_Subway)" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center (New York City Subway)">Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center</a> (<span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="2 (New York City Subway service)">2</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/3_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="3 (New York City Subway service)">3</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/4_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="4 (New York City Subway service)">4</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/5_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="5 (New York City Subway service)">5</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/B_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="B (New York City Subway service)">B</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/D_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="D (New York City Subway service)">D</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/N_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="N (New York City Subway service)">N</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Q_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="Q (New York City Subway service)">Q</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/R_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="R (New York City Subway service)">R</a></span> and <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/W_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="W (New York City Subway service)">W</a></span> trains), <a href="/wiki/Lafayette_Avenue_(IND_Fulton_Street_Line)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lafayette Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)">Lafayette Avenue</a> (<span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/A_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="A (New York City Subway service)">A</a></span> and <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/C_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="C (New York City Subway service)">C</a></span> trains), and <a href="/wiki/Fulton_Street_(IND_Crosstown_Line)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulton Street (IND Crosstown Line)">Fulton Street</a> (<span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/G_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="G (New York City Subway service)">G</a></span> train).<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Rail_Road" title="Long Island Rail Road">LIRR</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Terminal" title="Atlantic Terminal">Atlantic Terminal</a> station is also here, and the neighborhood is also served by the <a href="/wiki/B25_(New_York_City_bus)" title="B25 (New York City bus)">B25</a>, <a href="/wiki/B26_(New_York_City_bus)" title="B26 (New York City bus)">B26</a>, <a href="/wiki/B38_(New_York_City_bus)" title="B38 (New York City bus)">B38</a>, <a href="/wiki/B45_(New_York_City_bus)" title="B45 (New York City bus)">B45</a>, <a href="/wiki/B52_(New_York_City_bus)" title="B52 (New York City bus)">B52</a>, <a href="/wiki/B54_(New_York_City_bus)" title="B54 (New York City bus)">B54</a>, <a href="/wiki/B57_(New_York_City_bus)" class="mw-redirect" title="B57 (New York City bus)">B57</a> and <a href="/wiki/B62_(New_York_City_bus)" class="mw-redirect" title="B62 (New York City bus)">B62</a> bus routes.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fort Greene is served by <a href="/wiki/NYC_Ferry" title="NYC Ferry">NYC Ferry</a>'s Astoria route, which stops at the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Navy_Yard" title="Brooklyn Navy Yard">Brooklyn Navy Yard</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-astoria_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-astoria-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Brooklyn Navy Yard stop opened on May 20, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are plans to build the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn%E2%80%93Queens_Connector" title="Brooklyn–Queens Connector">Brooklyn–Queens Connector</a> (BQX), a light rail system that would run along the waterfront from <a href="/wiki/Red_Hook,_Brooklyn" title="Red Hook, Brooklyn">Red Hook</a> through Fort Greene to <a href="/wiki/Astoria,_Queens" title="Astoria, Queens">Astoria</a> in <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a>. However, the system is projected to cost $2.7 billion, and the projected opening has been delayed until at least 2029.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_residents">Notable residents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Notable residents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Politicians_and_political_activists">Politicians and political activists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Politicians and political activists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_James" title="Letitia James">Letitia James</a> (born 1958), <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_New_York" title="Attorney General of New York">Attorney General of New York</a><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Jeffries" title="Hakeem Jeffries">Hakeem Jeffries</a> (born 1970), U.S. representative for <a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="New York's 8th congressional district">New York's 8th congressional district</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velmanette_Montgomery" title="Velmanette Montgomery">Velmanette Montgomery</a> (born 1942), <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Senate" title="New York State Senate">State Senator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_T._Mosley" title="Walter T. Mosley">Walter T. Mosley</a> (born 1967), <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Assembly" title="New York State Assembly">Assemblyman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eli_Pariser" title="Eli Pariser">Eli Pariser</a> (born 1980), activist and co-founder of <a href="/wiki/MoveOn.org" class="mw-redirect" title="MoveOn.org">MoveOn.org</a>, <a href="/wiki/Avaaz.org" class="mw-redirect" title="Avaaz.org">Avaaz.org</a>, and CEO of <a href="/wiki/Upworthy" title="Upworthy">Upworthy</a><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zephyr_Teachout" title="Zephyr Teachout">Zephyr Teachout</a> (born 1971), associate law professor at <a href="/wiki/Fordham_University" title="Fordham University">Fordham University</a> and 2014 Democratic <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_York" title="Governor of New York">gubernatorial</a> candidate<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conrad_Tillard" title="Conrad Tillard">Conrad Tillard</a> (born 1964), politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and civil rights activist</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writers">Writers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Writers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Adam" title="Helen Adam">Helen Adam</a> (1909–1993), Scottish poet, collagist and photographer<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwendolyn_B._Bennett" title="Gwendolyn B. Bennett">Gwendolyn B. Bennett</a> (1903–1981), <a href="/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance" title="Harlem Renaissance">Harlem Renaissance</a> writer and artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Benson" title="Sarah Benson">Sarah Benson</a> (born 1977/78), director of avant-garde theatre productions<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uli_Beutter_Cohen" title="Uli Beutter Cohen">Uli Beutter Cohen</a>, documentarian<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Capote" title="Truman Capote">Truman Capote</a> (1924–1984), novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Channer" title="Colin Channer">Colin Channer</a> (born 1963), novelist<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Egan" title="Jennifer Egan">Jennifer Egan</a> (born 1962), novelist<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sasha_Frere-Jones" title="Sasha Frere-Jones">Sasha Frere-Jones</a> (born 1967), writer and former music critic for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_George" title="Nelson George">Nelson George</a> (born 1957), <a href="/wiki/Music_journalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Music journalist">music journalist</a> and novelist<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amitav_Ghosh" title="Amitav Ghosh">Amitav Ghosh</a>, novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clara_Whitehill_Hunt" title="Clara Whitehill Hunt">Clara Whitehill Hunt</a> (1871–1958), children's novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Henry_Hwang" title="David Henry Hwang">David Henry Hwang</a>, playwright</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jhumpa_Lahiri" title="Jhumpa Lahiri">Jhumpa Lahiri</a>, novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karan_Mahajan" title="Karan Mahajan">Karan Mahajan</a>, novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marianne_Moore" title="Marianne Moore">Marianne Moore</a>, poet who lived at 260 Cumberland Street from 1929 to 1966. Moore worshiped at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church and fought to save the boathouse and camperdown elm in Prospect Park.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Hancock_Rux" title="Carl Hancock Rux">Carl Hancock Rux</a>, novelist, poet, playwright, and recording artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a>, novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adario_Strange" title="Adario Strange">Adario Strange</a>, writer-filmmaker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tour%C3%A9_(journalist)" title="Touré (journalist)">Touré</a>, novelist, <a href="/wiki/Music_journalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Music journalist">music journalist</a> and TV host</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adelle_Waldman" title="Adelle Waldman">Adelle Waldman</a> (born 1977), novelist, columnist and blogger<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Weller" title="Michael Weller">Michael Weller</a> (born 1942), playwright</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colson_Whitehead" title="Colson Whitehead">Colson Whitehead</a> (born 1969), novelist, lived in the area early in his career<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Whitman" title="Walt Whitman">Walt Whitman</a>, poet who was influential in the creation of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Greene_Park" title="Fort Greene Park">Fort Greene Park</a> in 1843</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Wright_(author)" title="Richard Wright (author)">Richard Wright</a> (1908–1960), novelist, wrote <i><a href="/wiki/Native_Son" title="Native Son">Native Son</a></i> while living at 175 Carlton Avenue<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Artists">Artists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Artists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Photographers_and_visual_artists">Photographers and visual artists</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Photographers and visual artists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Crichlow" title="Ernest Crichlow">Ernest Crichlow</a> (1914–2005), <a href="/wiki/Social_realism" title="Social realism">social realist</a> artist<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyle_DeWoody" title="Kyle DeWoody">Kyle DeWoody</a> (born 1984/85), gallery owner and curator<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akiko_Ichikawa" title="Akiko Ichikawa">Akiko Ichikawa</a>, artist and activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gertrude_K%C3%A4sebier" title="Gertrude Käsebier">Gertrude Käsebier</a> (1852–1934), photographer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe" title="Robert Mapplethorpe">Robert Mapplethorpe</a> (1946–1989), photographer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Ofili" title="Chris Ofili">Chris Ofili</a>, artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Parl%C3%A1" title="José Parlá">José Parlá</a>, artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Salle" title="David Salle">David Salle</a>, painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Schles" title="Ken Schles">Ken Schles</a> (born 1960), photographer.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lorna_Simpson" title="Lorna Simpson">Lorna Simpson</a>, photographer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mickalene_Thomas" title="Mickalene Thomas">Mickalene Thomas</a>, visual artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kara_Walker" title="Kara Walker">Kara Walker</a>, visual artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrie_Mae_Weems" title="Carrie Mae Weems">Carrie Mae Weems</a>, photographer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(director)" title="Robert Wilson (director)">Robert Wilson</a>, artist and theater director</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Musicians">Musicians</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Musicians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erykah_Badu" title="Erykah Badu">Erykah Badu</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Bartz" title="Gary Bartz">Gary Bartz</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lester_Bowie" title="Lester Bowie">Lester Bowie</a> (1941–1999), musician<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Carter" title="Betty Carter">Betty Carter</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Coleman" title="Steve Coleman">Steve Coleman</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carla_Cook" title="Carla Cook">Carla Cook</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dana_Dane" title="Dana Dane">Dana Dane</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slide_Hampton" title="Slide Hampton">Slide Hampton</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Harding_(singer)" title="John Wesley Harding (singer)">John Wesley Harding</a>, singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/El-P" title="El-P">El-P</a>, underground <a href="/wiki/Hip-hop" class="mw-redirect" title="Hip-hop">hip-hop</a> artist and founder of Definitive Jux Records; his album "<a href="/wiki/I%27ll_Sleep_When_You%27re_Dead" title="I'll Sleep When You're Dead">I'll Sleep When You're Dead</a>" was recorded at his residence in Fort Greene</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ol%27_Dirty_Bastard" title="Ol' Dirty Bastard">Ol' Dirty Bastard</a>, rapper (deceased), grew up in Fort Greene<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digable_Planets" title="Digable Planets">Digable Planets</a>, hip-hop group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Murda" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Murda">Free Murda</a>, rapper, cousin of <a href="/wiki/Ol_dirty_bastard" class="mw-redirect" title="Ol dirty bastard">ODB</a> and <a href="/wiki/RZA" title="RZA">RZA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popa_Wu" class="mw-redirect" title="Popa Wu">Popa Wu</a>, patriarch of the <a href="/wiki/Wu-Tang_Clan" title="Wu-Tang Clan">Wu-Tang Clan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Just-Ice" title="Just-Ice">Just-Ice</a>, rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Fischer" title="Lisa Fischer">Lisa Fischer</a>, musician, born in Fort Greene</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Halvorson" title="Mary Halvorson">Mary Halvorson</a>, guitarist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talib_Kweli" title="Talib Kweli">Talib Kweli</a>, rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vernon_Reid" title="Vernon Reid">Vernon Reid</a>, musician of <a href="/wiki/Living_Colour" title="Living Colour">Living Colour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chubb_Rock" title="Chubb Rock">Chubb Rock</a>, rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justine_Skye" title="Justine Skye">Justine Skye</a>, singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a>, musician, now lives in the Rockaways<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cecil_Taylor" title="Cecil Taylor">Cecil Taylor</a> (1929–2018), jazz musician<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Temple_(bassist)" title="Johnny Temple (bassist)">Johnny Temple</a>, musician with the bands <a href="/wiki/Soulside" title="Soulside">Soulside</a> and <a href="/wiki/Girls_Against_Boys" title="Girls Against Boys">Girls Against Boys</a><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citizen_Cope" title="Citizen Cope">Citizen Cope</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Lee_(musician)" title="Bill Lee (musician)">Bill Lee</a>, musician and father of <a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee">Spike Lee</a>; Rented rooms on Carlton Avenue to musicians <a href="/wiki/Eric_Dolphy" title="Eric Dolphy">Eric Dolphy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Freddie_Hubbard" title="Freddie Hubbard">Freddie Hubbard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wes_Montgomery" title="Wes Montgomery">Wes Montgomery</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Shorter" title="Wayne Shorter">Wayne Shorter</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branford_Marsalis" title="Branford Marsalis">Branford Marsalis</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toshi_Reagon" title="Toshi Reagon">Toshi Reagon</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rev._Hezekiah_Walker" class="mw-redirect" title="Rev. Hezekiah Walker">Rev. Hezekiah Walker</a>, musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mos_Def" class="mw-redirect" title="Mos Def">Mos Def</a>, actor, rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Flansburgh" title="John Flansburgh">John Flansburgh</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Linnell" title="John Linnell">John Linnell</a> of the band <a href="/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants" title="They Might Be Giants">They Might Be Giants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jalal_Mansur_Nuriddin" title="Jalal Mansur Nuriddin">Jalal Mansur Nuriddin</a>, founding member of <a href="/wiki/The_Last_Poets" title="The Last Poets">The Last Poets</a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="TV_and_movie_industry">TV and movie industry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: TV and movie industry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Directors,_producers,_choreographers"><span id="Directors.2C_producers.2C_choreographers"></span>Directors, producers, choreographers</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Directors, producers, choreographers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Ball_(screenwriter)" title="Alan Ball (screenwriter)">Alan Ball</a> (born 1957), screenwriter and producer; creator and writer of <i><a href="/wiki/Six_Feet_Under_(TV_series)" title="Six Feet Under (TV series)">Six Feet Under</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/True_Blood" title="True Blood">True Blood</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Dickerson" title="Ernest Dickerson">Ernest Dickerson</a>, film director and <a href="/wiki/Cinematographer" title="Cinematographer">cinematographer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Hirsch" title="Lee Hirsch">Lee Hirsch</a>, documentary filmmaker; writer-director of <i><a href="/wiki/Amandla!:_A_Revolution_in_Four-Part_Harmony" title="Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony">Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony</a></i> (2002) and <a href="/wiki/Bully_(2011_film)" title="Bully (2011 film)"><i>Bully</i></a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee">Spike Lee</a>, film director; lives now in <a href="/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a> but maintains his movie studio <a href="/wiki/40_Acres_%26_A_Mule_Filmworks" class="mw-redirect" title="40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks">40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks</a> there, and several of his films, including <i><a href="/wiki/She%27s_Gotta_Have_It" title="She's Gotta Have It">She's Gotta Have It</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/She_Hate_Me" title="She Hate Me">She Hate Me</a></i> were partially shot in Fort Greene.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonya_Tayeh" title="Sonya Tayeh">Sonya Tayeh</a>, (born 1977/78) choreographer<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Verdi" title="Robert Verdi">Robert Verdi</a> (born 1968), fashion stylist<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Actors_and_performers">Actors and performers</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Actors and performers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Uzo_Aduba" title="Uzo Aduba">Uzo Aduba</a> (born 1981), Golden-Globe-winning star of Netflix's <i><a href="/wiki/Orange_Is_the_New_Black" title="Orange Is the New Black">Orange Is the New Black</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Cenac" title="Wyatt Cenac">Wyatt Cenac</a> (born 1976), comedian, actor, producer and Emmy Award winning writer, who hosts and produces the HBO series <i><a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Cenac%27s_Problem_Areas" title="Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas">Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Grenier" title="Adrian Grenier">Adrian Grenier</a> (born 1976), actor who now lives in <a href="/wiki/Clinton_Hill,_Brooklyn" title="Clinton Hill, Brooklyn">Clinton Hill</a><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaby_Hoffmann" title="Gaby Hoffmann">Gaby Hoffmann</a> (born 1982), actress best known for her roles in <i><a href="/wiki/Sleepless_in_Seattle" title="Sleepless in Seattle">Sleepless in Seattle</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Transparent_(TV_series)" title="Transparent (TV series)">Transparent</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Girls_(TV_series)" title="Girls (TV series)">Girls</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holly_Hunter" title="Holly Hunter">Holly Hunter</a> (born 1958), actress<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyle_Jean-Baptiste" title="Kyle Jean-Baptiste">Kyle Jean-Baptiste</a> (1993–2015), actor<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denis_O%27Hare" title="Denis O'Hare">Denis O'Hare</a> (born 1962), actor<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosie_Perez" title="Rosie Perez">Rosie Perez</a> (born 1964), <i><a href="/wiki/The_View_(U.S._TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="The View (U.S. TV series)">The View</a></i> host and <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a>-nominated actor.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christina_Ricci" title="Christina Ricci">Christina Ricci</a> (born 1980), actress.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Rock" title="Chris Rock">Chris Rock</a>, now lives in <a href="/wiki/Alpine,_New_Jersey" title="Alpine, New Jersey">Alpine, New Jersey</a><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keri_Russell" title="Keri Russell">Keri Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Guenveur_Smith" title="Roger Guenveur Smith">Roger Guenveur Smith</a> (born 1955), actor, director and writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alek_Wek" title="Alek Wek">Alek Wek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saul_Williams" title="Saul Williams">Saul Williams</a>, singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor (now lives in Paris<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Wright" title="Jeffrey Wright">Jeffrey Wright</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Athletes">Athletes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Athletes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taj_Gibson" title="Taj Gibson">Taj Gibson</a> (born 1985), NBA player<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Holmberg" title="Ronald Holmberg">Ronald Holmberg</a> (born 1938), ranked World No. 7 in tennis 1960 and in the U.S. Top 10 for nine years.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a> (born 1963), entrepreneur, owner/chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Hornets</a>, and former NBA player<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_King_(basketball)" title="Albert King (basketball)">Albert King</a> (born 1959), former NBA player and younger brother of <a href="/wiki/Bernard_King" title="Bernard King">Bernard King</a><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_King" title="Bernard King">Bernard King</a> (born 1956), former NBA player<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lia_Neal" title="Lia Neal">Lia Neal</a> (born 1995), 2012 US Olympic bronze-winning swimmer<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Tyson" title="Mike Tyson">Mike Tyson</a> (born 1966), professional boxer who was undisputed heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criminals">Criminals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Criminals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al_Capone" title="Al Capone">Al Capone</a>, born in Fort Greene<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicky_Cruz" title="Nicky Cruz">Nicky Cruz</a>, former leader of a notorious New York City <a href="/wiki/Gang" title="Gang">gang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mau_Maus" title="Mau Maus">The Mau-Maus</a>; later became a Christian <a href="/wiki/Evangelism" title="Evangelism">evangelist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelvin_Martin" title="Kelvin Martin">Kelvin Martin</a>, an infamous robbery expert and criminal also known as the original <a href="/wiki/50_Cent" title="50 Cent">50 Cent</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_notables">Other notables</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Other notables"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Brigadier General (Brevet) <a href="/wiki/Edward_Brush_Fowler" title="Edward Brush Fowler">Edward Brush Fowler</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. Commander, <a href="/wiki/14th_Regiment_(New_York_State_Militia)" title="14th Regiment (New York State Militia)">14th Regiment</a>, also known as the 14th Brooklyn, nicknamed the <i>Red Legged Devils </i>at the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run" title="First Battle of Bull Run">First Battle of Bull Run</a>; for whom Fowler Square is named</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgianna_Glose" title="Georgianna Glose">Georgianna Glose</a>, Dominican <a href="/wiki/Religious_sister_(Catholic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious sister (Catholic)">religious sister</a> and founder/director of the Fort Greene Strategic Neighborhood Action Partnership</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Quan_Judge" title="William Quan Judge">William Quan Judge</a>, mystic, <a href="/wiki/Esotericist" class="mw-redirect" title="Esotericist">esotericist</a>, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society</li> <li>Dr. <a href="/wiki/Susan_McKinney_Steward" title="Susan McKinney Steward">Susan McKinney Steward</a>, first African American woman to receive a medical degree in New York State and the third in the U.S.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Notes</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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Accessed July 18, 2022. "New York State Attorney General and Fort Greene resident Letitia James..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dld-conference.com/speaker/eli-pariser">Eli Pariser</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220718165318/https://dld-conference.com/speaker/eli-pariser">Archived</a> July 18, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Digital_Life_Design" title="Digital Life Design">Digital Life Design</a>. Accessed July 18, 2022. "Eli ... now lives in Fort Greene in Brooklyn, NY."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rbbins, Christopher. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gothamist.com/news/meet-zephyr-teachout-the-woman-andrew-cuomos-scared-to-debate">"Meet Zephyr Teachout, The Woman Andrew Cuomo's Scared To Debate"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220718165317/https://gothamist.com/news/meet-zephyr-teachout-the-woman-andrew-cuomos-scared-to-debate">Archived</a> July 18, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Gothamist" title="Gothamist">Gothamist</a></i>, August 15, 2014. Accessed July 18, 2022. "Zephyr Teachout lives in Fort Greene and is running for governor."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/12/obituaries/helen-adam-83-poet-and-writer-of-ballads.html">"Helen Adam, 83, Poet And Writer of Ballads"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, October 12, 1993. Accessed July 19, 2023. "Helen Adam, a poet and composer of Scottish ballads, died on Sept. 19 at a nursing home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She was 83."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vincentelli, Elisabeth. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/theater/sarah-benson-soho-rep.html">"Sarah Benson Thinks Audiences Want a Challenge"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, July 5, 2023. Accessed March 5, 2024. "At a coffee spot near her home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Laterman, Kaya. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/nyregion/subway-book-review-nyc.html">"How the Founder of Subway Book Review Spends Her Sundays Uli Beutter Cohen likes to bake, read Tarot cards, call her mother in Germany and spend time with book lovers on the train."</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220718172135/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/nyregion/subway-book-review-nyc.html">Archived</a> July 18, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, December 31, 2021. Accessed July 18, 2022. "Ms. Cohen, 40, lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Colin_Channer" title="Colin Channer">Channer, Colin</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/nyregion/thecity/03chan.html">"A Place on Clermont Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, September 3, 2006. Accessed March 5, 2024. "By then we’d been living in the apartment on Clermont Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, for maybe six weeks."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mechling, Lauren. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vogue.com/article/jennifer-egan-profile">"The Literary Acrobatics of Jennifer Egan"</a>, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vogue_(US_magazine)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vogue (US magazine) (page does not exist)">Vogue</a></i>, March 21, 2022. Accessed March 5, 2024. "The pair decamped ...to Fort Greene, Brooklyn..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/sasha-frere-jones-40514/">Sasha Frere-Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/MIT_Press" title="MIT Press">MIT Press</a>. Accessed March 5, 2024. "Sasha Frere-Jones grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ham, Robert. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.brooklynpaper.com/soul-man-fort-greene-author-nelson-george-on-soul-train-and-gentrification/">"Soul man: Fort Greene author Nelson George on <i>Soul Train</i> and gentrification"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Paper" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn Paper">Brooklyn Paper</a></i>, March 18, 2014. Accessed March 5, 2024. "The Brooklyn Paper spoke with the writer and filmmaker from his home in Fort Greene..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cIOZO8_HNGAC"><i>An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn</i></a>. Gibbs Smith. p. 183. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4236-1911-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4236-1911-6"><bdi>978-1-4236-1911-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Architectural+Guidebook+to+Brooklyn&rft.pages=183&rft.pub=Gibbs+Smith&rft.isbn=978-1-4236-1911-6&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DcIOZO8_HNGAC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Greene%2C+Brooklyn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gould, Emily. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thecut.com/article/adelle-waldman-help-wanted-interview.html">"Adelle Waldman Takes the Early Shift"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)#The_Cut" title="New York (magazine)">The Cut</a></i>, February 26, 2024. Accessed March 5, 2024. "Around this time, her husband, the journalist Evan Hughes, grew tired of living in their cozy apartment in Fort Greene..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nymag.com/nymetro/realestate/urbandev/features/n_10289/">"Don't You Be My Neighbor"</a>. <i>NYMag.com</i>. April 23, 2004<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 10,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=NYMag.com&rft.atitle=Don%27t+You+Be+My+Neighbor&rft.date=2004-04-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fnymetro%2Frealestate%2Furbandev%2Ffeatures%2Fn_10289%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Greene%2C+Brooklyn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pw.org/literary_places/richard_wrights_former_residence">"Richard Wright’s Former Residence"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Poets_%26_Writers" title="Poets & Writers">Poets & Writers</a></i>. Accessed March 5, 2024. "A plaque honoring Richard Wright is mounted on the writer’s former residence in Fort Greene... "</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Potts, Monica. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/arts/ernest-crichlow-91-lyrical-painter-dies.html">"Ernest Crichlow, 91, Lyrical Painter, Dies"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180629074352/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/arts/ernest-crichlow-91-lyrical-painter-dies.html">Archived</a> June 29, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, November 14, 2005. Accessed September 2, 2018. "Ernest Crichlow... was 91 and lived in Fort Greene, Brooklyn."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Anderson, Stacey. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/fashion/meet-kyle-dewoody-co-founder-of-the-grey-area-art-boutique.html">"Curating the Décor"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220718172147/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/fashion/meet-kyle-dewoody-co-founder-of-the-grey-area-art-boutique.html">Archived</a> July 18, 2022, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, June 18, 2014. Accessed July 18, 2022. "...In Fort Greene, in a former Masonic temple that also houses her showroom and office."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Leland_(journalist)" title="John Leland (journalist)">Leland, John</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/nyregion/the-east-village-in-the-1980s-and-looking-back.html">"The East Village, in the 1980s and Looking Back"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181005200711/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/nyregion/the-east-village-in-the-1980s-and-looking-back.html">Archived</a> October 5, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, December 26, 2014. Accessed October 5, 2018. "Ken Schles book, <i>Night Walk</i> (2014), is the retrospective glance of a father of two living in Fort Greene, in Brooklyn."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Ratliff" title="Ben Ratliff">Ratliff, Ben</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/arts/lester-bowie-is-dead-at-58-innovative-jazz-trumpeter.html">"Lester Bowie Is Dead at 58; Innovative Jazz Trumpeter"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181005195142/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/arts/lester-bowie-is-dead-at-58-innovative-jazz-trumpeter.html">Archived</a> October 5, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, November 11, 1999. Accessed October 5, 2018. "Mr. Bowie ... in his Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Greene."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHuey,_Steve" class="citation news cs1">Huey, Steve. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://allmusic.com/artist/ol-dirty-bastard-p142390/biography">"Ol' Dirty Bastard Biography"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Allmusic" class="mw-redirect" title="Allmusic">Allmusic</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 8,</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Allmusic&rft.atitle=Ol%27+Dirty+Bastard+Biography&rft.au=Huey%2C+Steve&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fallmusic.com%2Fartist%2Fol-dirty-bastard-p142390%2Fbiography&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Greene%2C+Brooklyn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreen2015" class="citation news cs1">Green, Penelope (October 3, 2015). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/fashion/patti-smith-survivor.html">"Patti Smith, Survivor"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 10,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Patti+Smith%2C+Survivor&rft.date=2015-10-03&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=Penelope&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F10%2F04%2Ffashion%2Fpatti-smith-survivor.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Greene%2C+Brooklyn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-82">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Ratliff" title="Ben Ratliff">Ratliff, Ben</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/music/cecil-taylors-keyboard-legacy.html">"Lessons From the Dean of the School of Improv"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171210123901/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/music/cecil-taylors-keyboard-legacy.html">Archived</a> December 10, 2017, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, May 3, 2012. Accessed December 9, 2017. "I recently spoke with the 83-year-old improvising pianist Cecil Taylor ... at his three-story home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where he has lived since 1983."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cotto, Andrew. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/nyregion/how-johnny-temple-book-publisher-and-rocker-spends-his-sundays.html">"How Johnny Temple, Book Publisher and Rocker, Spends His Sundays"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181005200654/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/nyregion/how-johnny-temple-book-publisher-and-rocker-spends-his-sundays.html">Archived</a> October 5, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, May 11, 2018. Accessed October 5, 2018. "Johnny Temple ... lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with his wife, Kara Gilmour... since 1990."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fogle, Asher. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://broadwaystyleguide.com/2015/07/sonya-tayeh-dancer-in-armor/">"Sonya Tayeh: Dancer in Armor"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201108140052/http://broadwaystyleguide.com/2015/07/sonya-tayeh-dancer-in-armor/">Archived</a> November 8, 2020, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, Broadway Style Guide, July 2015. Accessed November 20, 2019. "Every night, Tayeh carefully lays out her clothes at the Fort Greene, Brooklyn, apartment she shares with Lampert."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-85">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Salisbury, Vanita. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/02/robert_verdi_has_a_drug_for_ev.html">"Robert Verdi Has a Drug for Every Occasion"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210127114224/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/02/robert_verdi_has_a_drug_for_ev.html">Archived</a> January 27, 2021, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York (magazine)</a></i>, February 10, 2010. Accessed November 20, 2019. "Name: Robert Verdi; Age: 41 (28 on Facebook); Neighborhood: Fort Greene, Brooklyn"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-86"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-86">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robinson, Kara Myer. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/nyregion/how-uzo-aduba-actor-spends-her-sundays.html">"How Uzo Aduba, Actor, Spends Her Sundays"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180903051537/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/nyregion/how-uzo-aduba-actor-spends-her-sundays.html">Archived</a> September 3, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, June 5, 2015. Accessed September 2, 2018. "The actor, who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wright, Tolly. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amny.com/entertainment/wyatt-cenac-talks-new-brooklyn-based-web-series-1.14325502">"Wyatt Cenac talks new Brooklyn-based web series"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180903050010/https://www.amny.com/entertainment/wyatt-cenac-talks-new-brooklyn-based-web-series-1.14325502">Archived</a> September 3, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/AM_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="AM New York">AM New York</a></i>, October 1, 2017. Accessed September 2, 2018. "The Fort Greene resident and former <i>Daily Show</i> correspondent..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Shea2010" class="citation news cs1">O'Shea, Chris (September 21, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119212713/http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/adrian-grenier-gains-perspective-in-his-new-documentary-teenage-paparazzo/">"Adrian Grenier Gains Perspective"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. Archived from <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/adrian-grenier-gains-perspective-in-his-new-documentary-teenage-paparazzo/">the original</a></span> on November 19, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Adrian+Grenier+Gains+Perspective&rft.date=2010-09-21&rft.aulast=O%27Shea&rft.aufirst=Chris&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ffort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F09%2F21%2Fadrian-grenier-gains-perspective-in-his-new-documentary-teenage-paparazzo%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Greene%2C+Brooklyn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Taffy_Brodesser-Akner" title="Taffy Brodesser-Akner">Brodesser-Akner, Taffy</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/magazine/gaby-hoffmann-the-eloise-of-the-chelsea-hotel.html">"The Chelsea Hotel Had Its Own Eloise"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181005195009/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/magazine/gaby-hoffmann-the-eloise-of-the-chelsea-hotel.html">Archived</a> October 5, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, July 8, 2013. Accessed October 5, 2018. "... in June she finally found an apartment in Fort Greene in Brooklyn..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Halberg, Morgan. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://observer.com/2018/05/holly-hunter-brooklyn-fort-greene-brownstone-for-sale/">"Holly Hunter Wants $4.5 Million for Her 19th Century Brownstone"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211115153844/https://observer.com/2018/05/holly-hunter-brooklyn-fort-greene-brownstone-for-sale/">Archived</a> November 15, 2021, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Observer" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Observer">New York Observer</a></i>, May 18, 2018. Accessed November 15, 2021. "The Academy Award-winner left Greenwich Village for Fort Greene in 2014..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis, Daniel; Ramisetti, Kirthana; and Brown, Stephen Rex. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/kyle-jean-baptiste-les-miserables-actor-dead-21-article-1.2341606">"<i>Les Miserables</i> cast member Kyle Jean-Baptiste dies at 21 after fall from fire escape"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150831023111/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/kyle-jean-baptiste-les-miserables-actor-dead-21-article-1.2341606">Archived</a> August 31, 2015, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Daily_News" title="New York Daily News">New York Daily News</a></i>, August 30, 2015. Accessed October 5, 2018. "The actor's apartment was on the fourth floor of the Fort Greene building..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Chauvin, Kelsy. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cntraveler.com/story/why-actor-denis-ohares-family-travels-best-on-the-fly">"Why Actor Denis O'Hare's Family Travels Best on the Fly"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181005194939/https://www.cntraveler.com/story/why-actor-denis-ohares-family-travels-best-on-the-fly">Archived</a> October 5, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Traveler" title="Condé Nast Traveler">Condé Nast Traveler</a></i>, May 9, 2017. Accessed October 5, 2018. "... have been in New York City for the past 25 years—19 of those in the same apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pearse, Emma. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2009/05/rosie_perez_doesnt_have_gentri.html">"Rosie Perez Doesn't Hate Gentrification, She Just Hates New-Brooklyn Entitlement"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211115153844/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2009/05/rosie_perez_doesnt_have_gentri.html">Archived</a> November 15, 2021, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i>, May 7, 2009. Accessed November 15, 2021. "... in Clinton Hill, where she now lives."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gould, Jennifer. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nypost.com/2015/04/29/christina-ricci-buys-fort-greene-townhouse/">"Christina Ricci buys Fort Greene townhouse"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211115153844/https://nypost.com/2015/04/29/christina-ricci-buys-fort-greene-townhouse/">Archived</a> November 15, 2021, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post">New York Post</a></i>, April 29, 2015. Accessed November 15, 2021.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClark2009" class="citation web cs1">Clark, Andrew (September 11, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/sep/11/alpine-most-expensive-place-america">"Hip-hop stars make Alpine, New Jersey, the richest place you've never heard of"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 10,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Hip-hop+stars+make+Alpine%2C+New+Jersey%2C+the+richest+place+you%27ve+never+heard+of&rft.date=2009-09-11&rft.aulast=Clark&rft.aufirst=Andrew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbusiness%2F2009%2Fsep%2F11%2Falpine-most-expensive-place-america&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Greene%2C+Brooklyn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kenyonreview.org/2013/12/fort-greene-renaissances/">"The Fort Greene Renaissances « Kenyon Review Blog"</a>. <i>www.kenyonreview.org</i>. December 16, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 10,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.kenyonreview.org&rft.atitle=The+Fort+Greene+Renaissances+%C2%AB+Kenyon+Review+Blog&rft.date=2013-12-16&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kenyonreview.org%2F2013%2F12%2Ffort-greene-renaissances%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Greene%2C+Brooklyn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Friedell, Nick. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20907635/nba-taj-gibson-chooses-obscure-jersey-number-represent-hometown">"Representing Brooklyn, Taj Gibson becomes NBA's first No. 67"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171006082631/http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20907635/nba-taj-gibson-chooses-obscure-jersey-number-represent-hometown">Archived</a> October 6, 2017, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a></i>, October 3, 2017. Accessed October 5, 2018. "Gibson, who grew up in the Fort Greene projects..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-98"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-98">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/411227214/">"Ft. Greene Park To Forest Hills; He Aims at Best Racquet in World"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211115153844/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/411227214/">Archived</a> November 15, 2021, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Daily_News" title="New York Daily News">New York Daily News</a></i>, September 10, 1957. Accessed November 15, 2021, via <a href="/wiki/Newspapers.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Newspapers.com">Newspapers.com</a>. "... since his Fort Greene fledgling days."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-99"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-99">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pollak, Michael. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/nyregion/thecity/over-the-bounding-pond.html">"Over the Bounding Pond"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110203215437/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/nyregion/thecity/28fyi.html">Archived</a> February 3, 2011, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, August 28, 2005. Accessed November 15, 2021. "Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born ... at Cumberland Hospital ... in Fort Greene."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-100">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hannon, Kent. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.si.com/vault/1977/02/07/560805/everybody-is-courting-the-king">"Everybody Is Courting The King; Brooklyn High School Star Albert King Is The College Recruiters' Most Wanted Man"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181005194903/https://www.si.com/vault/1977/02/07/560805/everybody-is-courting-the-king">Archived</a> October 5, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a></i>, February 7, 1977. Accessed October 5, 2018. "Coaches have long since given up trying to reach Albert at his home in a rundown section of Brooklyn known as Fort Greene."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-101">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Terzulli, Tom. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amny.com/sports/bernard-king-book-1.14791919">"Bernard King's autobiography details struggles that led to alcohol abuse Hall of Famer and former Knicks star discusses his tough Fort Greene childhood in <i>Game Face.</i>"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181005195101/https://www.amny.com/sports/bernard-king-book-1.14791919">Archived</a> October 5, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/AM_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="AM New York">AM New York</a></i>, November 6, 2017. Accessed October 5, 2018.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-102"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-102">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Seifman, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nypost.com/2012/08/11/brooklyns-neal-comes-home-with-bronze-medal/">"Brooklyn's Neal comes home with bronze medal"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181005194930/https://nypost.com/2012/08/11/brooklyns-neal-comes-home-with-bronze-medal/">Archived</a> October 5, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post">New York Post</a></i>, August 11, 2012. Accessed October 5, 2018. "Neal, who lives in Fort Greene..."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-103">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.si.com/boxing/2012/07/11/mike-tysonbroadway">"Tyson set for homecoming with Broadway debut of one-man show"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211115153844/https://www.si.com/boxing/2012/07/11/mike-tysonbroadway">Archived</a> November 15, 2021, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a></i>, July 11, 2012. Accessed November 15, 2021. "Tyson was born in Fort Greene... "</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-104"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-104">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biography.com/people/al-capone-9237536#awesm=~oC7HVcx15wjhAI">"Al Capone"</a>. Biography.com.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Al+Capone&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biography.com%2Fpeople%2Fal-capone-9237536%23awesm%3D~oC7HVcx15wjhAI&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Greene%2C+Brooklyn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <p><b>Further reading</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li>Lockwood, Charles, <i>Bricks and Brownstone, The New York Townhouse 1783–1928</i>, Abbeville Press, 1988. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8478-2522-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-8478-2522-1">0-8478-2522-1</a>.</li> <li>Morrone, Francis, <i>An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn</i>, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2001. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-58685-047-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-58685-047-4">1-58685-047-4</a>.</li> <li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070726060323/http://historicfortgreene.org/history.html">History of Fort Greene</a></i>. Retrieved May 9, 2006.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nymag.com/nymetro/realestate/urbandev/features/n_10289/">Former resident Colson Whitehead writes about Fort Greene gentrification</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200511135550/https://nymag.com/nymetro/realestate/urbandev/features/n_10289/">Archived</a> May 11, 2020, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Greene,_Brooklyn&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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