Fort Greene is a diverse brownstone residential neighborhood in northwest Brooklyn. It’s the home of the Afropunk rock festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
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Art
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn’s main performing arts center, exhibits art.
Books
- Brooklyn Public Library ~ Walt Whitman Branch
Dance
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn’s main performing arts center, presents dance.
- Mark Morris Dance Center is the home of the legendary modern dance company.
Festivals
- Afropunk is an African Diasporic rock festival in Commodore Perry Park.
Film
- BRIC House is a media arts teaching studio that produces the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn outdoor summer festival.
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn’s main performing arts center, screens film.
Food
- There is diverse shopping and dining on DeKalb and Myrtle avenues.
Music
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn’s main performing arts center, presents music including the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD.
Parks
- Commodore Barry Park is the home of the Afropunk rock festival.
- Fort Greene Park was Brooklyn’s first park. It was designed by Olmsted and Vaux who also designed Manhattan’s Central Park.
Performing Arts Centers
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn’s main performing arts center, presents art, dance, film, music, and theater. It’s DanceAfrica festival of African and Diasporic dance is a Memorial Day Weekend tradition.
Theater
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn’s main performing arts center, presents theater.
- Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center is a community theater.
History
Fort Greene is a brownstone residential neighborhood in northwest Brooklyn.
It runs north/south from Flushing Ave to Atlantic Ave, and east/west between Flatbush Ave/Ashland Pl and Clermont Ave.
Since around the ninth century, it was Native American Canarsie land.
The neighborhood is named for the Revolutionary War fort built by Nathanael Greene in 1776.
It’s traditionally been an African American neighborhood, but is gentrifying.
The treelined streets of old brownstones make it a beautiful neighborhood. It’s centrally located to lots of Brooklyn culture.
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower used to be the tallest building in Brooklyn. It’s profile sort of gave the middle finger to Manhattan.
Visit Fort Greene
Subways
Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center (2)(3), (4)(5), (B)(D),(N)(Q)(R)(W)
DeKalb Avenue (B)(D),(N)(Q)(R)(W)
Fulton St (G)
Lafayette Avenue (A)(C)
Trains
LIRR Atlantic Terminal: Atlantic Branch