Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Fort Greene is listed on the New York State Registry and on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a New York City-designated Historic District. It is located in north west Brooklyn, above Prospect Park. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 2. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Five Boroughs of New York City: 1: Manhattan 2: Brooklyn 3: Queens 4: Bronx 5: Staten Island In New York City, a borough is a unique form of government used to administer the five constituent counties that make up the city; it differs significantly from other borough forms of... Brooklyn (named after the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ... Prospect Park is a 585[1] acre (2. ... The Brooklyn Community Board 2 is a local governement unit of the city of New York, encompassing the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, Fulton Mall, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Fulton Ferry, and Clinton Hill in the borough of Brooklyn. ...

Sunset over the Monument in Fort Greene Park.

The neighborhood is named after an American Revolutionary War era fort that was built in 1776 under the supervision of General Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island (McCullough 2005). General Greene aided General George Washington during the Battle of Long Island in 1776. Fort Greene Park, originally called Washington Park and Brooklyn's first, is also derived from General Greene's name and the neighborhood. In 1864, Fort Greene park was redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The park notably includes the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument and crypt, which honors some 11,500 patriots who died aboard British prison ships during the American War of Independence. Image File history File links Fort_greene_park_sunset. ... Image File history File links Fort_greene_park_sunset. ... Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Program of the Dedicatory Ceremonies of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, November 14, 1908 Erected in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York. ... Fort Greene Park is a municipal park in Brooklyn, New York, comprising 30. ... Combatants American Patriots France Spanish Empire Dutch Republic Oneida and Tuscarora tribes Polish volunteers Prussian volunteers Kingdom of Great Britain Iroquois Confederacy Hessian mercenaries Loyalists Commanders George Washington Nathanael Greene Gilbert de La Fayette Comte de Rochambeau Bernardo de Gálvez Tadeusz KoÅ›ciuszko Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben King George... Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ... Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of General Greene from life in 1783, which was then copied several times by C.W. Peale and his son, Rembrandt Peale. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. ... Combatants United States Kingdom of Great Britain Commanders George Washington, Israel Putnam William Howe, Charles Cornwallis, Henry Clinton Strength 11,000-13,000 (about 10,000 of which were militia ) 22,000 (including 9,000 Hessians) Casualties 1,719 total (312 dead, 1,407 wounded, captured or missing) 377 total... Fort Greene Park is a municipal park in Brooklyn, New York, comprising 30. ... The following Washington Park references may be found in Wikipedia; Washington Park - Two former major league baseball parks found in Brooklyn, New York, and another municipal park later renamed Fort Greene Park. ... Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Program of the Dedicatory Ceremonies of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, November 14, 1908 Erected in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York. ... Crypt is also a commonly used name of water trumpets, aquatic plants. ... During the American Revolutionary War at least 16 hulks, including the infamous HMS Jersey, were placed by British authorities in the waters of Wallabout Bay off the shores of Brooklyn, New York as a place of incarceration for many thousands of American soldiers and sailors during about 1776–1783. ... The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. ...

Fort Greene contains many superb examples of mid-19th Century Italianate and Eastlake architecture, most of which is well preserved. Fort Greene is known for its many graceful, tree-lined streets and elegant low-rise housing. Fort Greene is also home to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn. The neighborhood is geographically desirable and close to the Atlantic Avenue train station, with access to most major subway lines. It is also home to several important cultural institutions like the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Music School, The Paul Robeson Theater, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), UrbanGlass (www.urbanglass.org), 651 Arts performing center for African-American presenters, and Lafayette Church. Brooklyn Technical High School is one of New York City's most competitive public schools. The world renowned Pratt Institute, in neighboring Clinton Hill, is one of the leading art schools in the United States. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Buttermans, the historic home of John Newman, the butter king, is one of several Queen Anne mansions in Elgin, Illinois The Queen Anne style of British and American architecture reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways... The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower rises over Downtown Brooklyn. ... Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance. ... Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, Communist sympathizer, Spingarn Medal winner, and Lenin Peace Prize laureate. ... The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, or MoCADA, is a museum of contemorary art by black artists in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ... Brooklyn Technical High School, commonly called Brooklyn Tech, is a New York City public high school that specializes in engineering, math and science. ... Pratt Institute is a specialized, private college in New York City with campuses in Manhattan and Brooklyn. ... Clinton Hill has multiple meanings: Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, is a neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City. ...

Fort Greene is roughly bounded by the Brooklyn Navy Yard/Nassau Street to the north, Flatbush Avenue to the west, Vanderbilt Avenue to the east and Atlantic Avenue to the south. Its main arteries are Fulton Street above St. Felix Street and DeKalb Avenue. The neighborhood is served by the New York City Subway at Dekalb Avenue (B Q), Dekalb Avenue (M N R), Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street (D M N R); Atlantic Avenue (2 3 4 5); Atlantic Avenue (B Q); Flatbush Avenue (LIRR); or the A C train at Lafayette Avenue; and the G train at Fulton Street. The New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard , the New York Navy Yard and United States Navy Yard, New York, is located 1. ... Flatbush Avenue is Brooklyns signature Avenue. ... Atlantic Avenue is a street in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City. ... The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, an affiliate of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as MTA New York City Transit. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The B Sixth Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The Q Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The M Nassau Street Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The N Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Current and former R services The R Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Eastern Parkway Line, the BMT Brighton Line and the BMT Fourth Avenue Line. ... The D Sixth Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The M Nassau Street Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The N Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Current and former R services The R Broadway Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Atlantic Avenue, located at Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, is a complex three-platform station, with an island platform between the express tracks, and two side platforms for the local tracks. ... The 2 Seventh Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The 3 Seventh Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The 4 Lexington Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The 5 Lexington Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The B Sixth Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... The Q Broadway Express is a service of the New York City Subway. ... Flatbush Avenue, also called the Atlantic Terminal, is the westernmost stop on the Long Island Rail Roads Atlantic Branch. ... An M3 railcar The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR (often referred to as the L-I-double-R) is a commuter rail system serving the length of Long Island, New York, United States. ... The A Eighth Avenue Express is a rapid transit service of the New York City Subway. ... The A Eighth Avenue Express and C Eighth Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... Lafayette Avenue is a station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. ... The G Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Local is a service of the New York City Subway. ... This station has two side platforms and is located on Fulton Street & Lafayette Avenue in the ZIP Code of 11217 in Brooklyn, New York. ...

History

Early history

1766 Map of Brooklyn.

Approximately 800 A.D. a gradual movement of Native Americans advanced from the Delaware area into lower New York, ultimately settling as part of the Canarsie tribe among 13 tribes of the Algonquin Nation. In 1637, Walloon (now called Belgian) Jansen de Rapelje purchased 335 acres of Native American land from Dutch West India Company in the area of Brooklyn that became known as Wallabout Bay (from Waal Boght or “Bay of Walloons”). This is the area where the Brooklyn Navy Yard now stands on the northern border of Fort Greene. An Italian immigrant named Peter Caesar Alberti started a tobacco plantation near the bay in Fort Greene in 1649, but was killed six years later by Native Americans. In 1776, under the supervision of General Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island the American Revolutionary War 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 Long Island. After the American defeat in the Battle of Long Island, George Washington 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 British. Although the fort was repaired in advance of an expected attack on Brooklyn by the British during the War of 1812, it slowly deteriorated after. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1882x1629, 3186 KB) Map of Brooklyn, NY made in 1766. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1882x1629, 3186 KB) Map of Brooklyn, NY made in 1766. ... Brooklyn (named after the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... Native Americans are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska. ... Official language(s) None Capital Dover Largest city Wilmington Area  Ranked 49th  - Total 2,491 sq mi (6,452 km²)  - Width 30 miles (48 km)  - Length 100 miles (161 km)  - % water 21. ... NY redirects here. ... This article is about the Native American tribe. ... The term Walloon may refer to either the Walloon language, or to the ethnic people of the same name. ... Dutch West India Company (Dutch: West-Indische Compagnie or WIC) was a company of Dutch merchants. ... A small body of water along the northwest shore of Brooklyn, New York. ... The New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard , the New York Navy Yard and United States Navy Yard, New York, is located 1. ... now. ... Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of General Greene from life in 1783, which was then copied several times by C.W. Peale and his son, Rembrandt Peale. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Combatants American Patriots France Spanish Empire Dutch Republic Oneida and Tuscarora tribes Polish volunteers Prussian volunteers Kingdom of Great Britain Iroquois Confederacy Hessian mercenaries Loyalists Commanders George Washington Nathanael Greene Gilbert de La Fayette Comte de Rochambeau Bernardo de Gálvez Tadeusz KoÅ›ciuszko Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben King George... Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ... Combatants United States Kingdom of Great Britain Commanders George Washington, Israel Putnam William Howe, Charles Cornwallis, Henry Clinton Strength 11,000-13,000 (about 10,000 of which were militia ) 22,000 (including 9,000 Hessians) Casualties 1,719 total (312 dead, 1,407 wounded, captured or missing) 377 total... George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. ... Combatants United States Great Britain Canada Bermuda Eastern Woodland Indians Commanders James Madison Henry Dearborn Jacob Brown Winfield Scott Andrew Jackson George Prevost Isaac Brock† Tecumseh† Strength •U.S. Regular Army: 35,800 •Rangers: 3,049 •Militia: 458,463* •US Navy & US Marines: (at start of war): •Frigates:6 •Other...

19th century

In 1801 the United States Government purchased land on Wallabout Bay for the construction of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, stimulating some growth in the area. Ferry service linking Manhattan and Brooklyn launched in 1814, and Brooklyn's population exploded from 4,000 to nearly 100,000 by 1850. Fort Greene was known as The Hill and was home to a small communter 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 farm owners began selling off their land in smaller plots for development. Country villas, frame row houses, and the occasional brick row house dotted the countryside, and one of them was home to poet Walt Whitman, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper. The government of the United States, established by the United States Constitution, is a federal republic of 50 states, a few territories and some protectorates. ... The New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard , the New York Navy Yard and United States Navy Yard, New York, is located 1. ... The ferryboat Dongan Hills, filled with commuters, about to dock at a New York City pier, ca. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... A villa was originally an upper-class country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably. ... A street of British Victorian/Edwardian terraced homes. ... Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. ... The Brooklyn Eagle, also called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was a daily newspaper published in Brooklyn, New York from 1841 to 1955. ...

Since the early 19th century, African Americans have made significant contributions to Fort Greene's development. New York State outlawed slavery 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. Approximately half of Brooklyn’s black population of that period lived in the Fort Greene area. Abolitionists formed the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in 1857, and hosted speakers such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman and also aided in the work of the Underground Railroad. Skilled African-American workers fought for their rights at the Navy Yard during the tumultuous Draft Riots of 1863 against armed bands of hooligans. 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 Board of Education in 1882. An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Slave redirects here. ... This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... Frederick Douglass, ca. ... Harriet Tubman (c. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... The New York Draft Riots (New York City, July 13 - July 17, 1863) began as protests against President Abraham Lincolns Enrollment Act of Conscription drafting men to fight in the ongoing United States Civil War. ... A board of education or a school board or school committee is the title of the board of directors of a school, local school district or higher administrative level. ...

In the 1850s Fort Greene's growth spread out from stagecoach lines on Myrtle Avenue and Fulton Street that ran to Fulton Ferry, and The Hill became known as the home of prosperous professionals, second only to Brooklyn Heights in prestige. During the 1850s and 1860s, blocks of Italianate brick and brownstone row houses were built on the remaining open land to house the expanding upper and middle class population. The names of the most attractive streets (Portland, Oxford, Cumberland, Carlton, and Adelphi) came from fine London 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, Second Empire, Greek Revival, Neo-Grec, Romanesque and Renaissance row houses of virtually original appearance. A view of the Myrtle Avenue Business Improvement District from the Wyckoff Avenue Intersection during the Holidy Season Myrtle Avenue in New York City is a street that runs from Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn to Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens. ... Fulton Street, named after engineer Robert Fulton, exists mainly in two parts in what are today two boroughs of New York City which Fulton linked by his steam ferries, and each segment has its own distinct identity. ... Fulton Ferry is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Expensive real estate: Brooklyn Heights in the snow taken from the Promenade, 2003 Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn; originally designated through popular reference as Brooklyn Village, it has, since 1834, become a prevalent area of the Brooklyn borough. ... An old brick wall in English bond laid with alternating courses of headers and A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction and sized to be layed with one hand using mortar. ... This article is about the building material and the dwelling. ... A street of British Victorian/Edwardian terraced homes. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The canonical example of Second Empire style is the Opéra Garnier, in which Neo-Baroque meets Neo-Renaissance. ... Personal residence of Catherine the Great Greek Revival was a style of classical architecture which became fashionable in Europe in the 18th century, and in the United Kingdom and United States in the early 19th century. ... Neo-Grec is a term usually used to refer to a particular manifestation of the Neoclassical style in the decorative arts, painting, and architecture of France, during the Second Empire of Napoleon III, lasting approximately between 1848 and 1865. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Renaissance (French for rebirth, or Rinascimento in Italian), was a cultural movement in Italy (and in Europe in general) that began in the late Middle Ages, and spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century. ...

As Manhattan became more crowded, the poor as well as the well-off established made Fort Greene their home, and the unoccupied areas of Myrtle Avenue became a shanty town 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.

Circa 1880s engraving of an earlier Monument in Washington Park.

Washington Park, renamed Fort Greene Park in 1897, was established as Brooklyn's first park in 1847 on a 30 acre plot around the site of the old Fort. In 1864, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, by now famous for their design of Central Park, 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 chestnut trees along the periphery, open grassy spaces, walking paths, a vine-covered arbor facing a military salute ground, a permanent rostrum for speeches, and two lawns used for croquet and tennis. The park's success prompted the creation of the larger Prospect Park. At the highest point of the park, The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument 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 McKim, Mead, and White, was the world's largest Doric column at 143 feet tall, and housed a bronze urn at its apex. Restoration work is currently under way to restore the monument and will be complete in the fall of 2007. Image File history File links Fgpark. ... Image File history File links Fgpark. ... Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Program of the Dedicatory Ceremonies of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, November 14, 1908 Erected in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York. ... Fort Greene Park is a municipal park in Brooklyn, New York, comprising 30. ... Fort Greene Park is a municipal park in Brooklyn, New York, comprising 30. ... Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... Binomial name Quercus prinus The Chestnut oak (Quercus prinus, or Quercus montana in some references) is one of the chestnut oak subgroup of the white oak group, genus Quercus section Quercus. ... In Valencia a newly-installed pergola shows its structure, which the climbing roses will cover. ... Rostrum can mean one of several different things: A rostrum (Latin beak) is an anatomical structure resembling a birds beak, such as the snout of crocodiles or dolphins or the part of the carapace of a crustacean. ... Winslow Homer: Croquet, 1864 Croquet is a recreational game and, latterly, a competitive sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena. ... For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ... Prospect Park is a 585[1] acre (2. ... Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Program of the Dedicatory Ceremonies of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, November 14, 1908 The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument is erected in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York, consisting of a 100-foot-wide granite staircase and a central Doric column 149 feet in height. ... From left to right: Will Mead, Charles McKim and Stan White McKim, Mead, and White was the premier architectural firm in the eastern United States at the turn of the twentieth century. ... The uncompleted Doric temple at Segesta, Sicily, has been waiting for finishing of its surfaces since 430 - 420 BC The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. ...

On April 24, 1888, the Fulton Street Elevated Line began running from Fulton Ferry to Nostrand Avenue, 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 Lafayette Avenue and Myrtle Avenue. April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (115th in leap years). ... Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... A view of the Myrtle Avenue Business Improvement District from the Wyckoff Avenue Intersection during the Holidy Season Myrtle Avenue in New York City is a street that runs from Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn to Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens. ...

20th century

 Fort Greene in the early 20th century became a significant cultural destination. After the original Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn Heights burned down in 1903, the current one was built in Fort Greene, and opened in 1908 with a production of Charles Gounod’s Faust featuring Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar (Caruso suffered a throat hemorrhage while singing at BAM in 1920 and died several days later). At the time, BAM was the most complexly designed cultural center in Greater New York since the construction of Madison Square Garden 15 years earlier. Fort Greene also showcased two stunning movie theaters, built in the 1920s: The Paramount Theater has been converted into Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus; and the Brooklyn Fox Theatre on Flatbush Avenue at Fulton Street which was demolished in 1971. Built from 1927-1929, the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, Brooklyn's tallest building, is considered one of the 10 greatest skyscrapers in New York. It is located next to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Brooklyn Technical High School, one of New York's most selective public high schools began construction on Fort Greene Place in 1930. 

The poet Marianne Moore 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--though not in Fort Greene. To see the Moore apartment you need to travel to Center City Philadelphia, to the Rosenbach Museum & Library. After her death, the furnishings and contents of Marianne Moore's apartment were purchased by the Rosenbach brothers, renowned collectors of literary ephemera. These pieces were then painstakingly reassembled in the top floor of their Philadelphia townhouse. Richard Wright wrote Native Son while living on Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene. Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance. ... Charles Gounod. ... Faust depicted in an etching by Rembrandt van Rijn (circa 1650) Faust or Faustus (pronounced with the same au sound as in house) is the protagonist of a popular German legend in which a mediæval scholar makes a pact with the Devil. ... Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian opera singer and one of the most famous tenors in history. ... Geraldine Farrar Farrar as the title character in Manon Geraldine Farrar (February 28, 1882 – March 11, 1967) was an opera singer and film actress whose stage presence earned her a fanatic following of Gerryflappers in the early 20th century. ... The metropolitan area of New York City, also called Greater New York or Greater New York City encompasses the New York--Northern New Jersey--Long Island, NY--NJ--CT--PA Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA). ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Paramount Theater or Paramount Theatre may refer to: Paramount Theater in Oakland, California Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas Paramount Theatre in Anderson, Indiana Paramount Theater in New York City Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Long Island University (LIU) is a private university located on Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. ... Flatbush Avenue is one of the major avenues in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower rises over Downtown Brooklyn. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance. ... Brooklyn Technical High School, commonly called Brooklyn Tech, is a New York City public high school that specializes in engineering, math and science. ... Marianne Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Marianne Moore (December 11, 1887 - February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... The Rosenbach Museum & Library is located within two 19th century townhouses at 2008 and 2010 Delancey Place in Philadelphia. ... Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories and non-fiction. ... For other uses, see Native Son (disambiguation). ...

During World War II, the Brooklyn Navy Yard employed more than 71,000 people. Due to the resulting demand for housing, the New York City Housing Authority 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 1957-1958 the houses were renovated and divided into the Walt Whitman Houses and the Raymond V. Ingersoll Houses. One year later Newsweek profiled the housing project as "one of the starkest examples" of the failures of public housing. 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. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... NYCHA,Sheepshead Houses The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) provides housing for low and moderate income residents throughout the five boroughs of New York City. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... A local authority tower block in Cwmbrân, South Wales Public housing or project homes is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. ...

From the 1960s through the 1980s, Fort Greene fought hard times that came with city-wide poverty, crime and drugs. While some houses were abandoned, artists, preservationists and Black professionals began to claim and restore the neighborhood in the the late 1980s and 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 Historic District status. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated two districts, the Fort Greene and BAM Historic Districts, in 1978. The Committee is now known as the Fort Greene Association. Spike Lee established his 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks company in Fort Greene in the mid 1980s, further strengthening the resurgence of the neighborhood. A historic district in the United States is a group of buildings, properties or sites that have been designated by one of several entites on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. ... The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is the New York City agency charged with administering New Yorks Landmarks Preservation Law. ... This section has been identified as trivia. ... [[Image:40Acreandamulefilmworks. ...

Recent history

The late 1990s and early 2000s saw the influx of many new residents and businesses to Fort Greene. While issues of gentrification are raised, Fort Greene stands to many as one of the best examples of a truly racially and economically diverse neighborhood with what The New York Times referred to as a "prevailing sense of racial amity that intrigues sociologists and attracts middle-class residents from other parts of the city." The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...

The controversial Atlantic Yards project to build a stadium for and relocate the New Jersey Nets (which would become the Brooklyn Nets) along with a complex of large commercial and residential high-rises on the border of Fort Greene and Prospect Heights - the “Brooklyn Nets Arena” has garnered opposition from many neighborhood residents including Councilwoman Letitia James and author Jhumpa Lahiri. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway to the south, and, traditionally, Washington Avenue to the east,[1] though some people have recently begun to claim boundaries as far east... The Brooklyn Nets Arena is a proposed sports arena to be built partly on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority-owned Atlantic Yards at Atlantic Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... New York City Council Member Letitia James. ... Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias (born Nilanjana Sudeshna in 1967) (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী Jhumpa LahiÅ—i) is a contemporary Indian American author based in New York City. ...

Press-worthy trivia

New York Times, 1858, "Homes of the Poor" “The poverty stricken condition of the inhabitants residing in the Fort Green (sic)/Clinton Hill district] of Brooklyn render it almost an unknown land,”. 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 “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.” (see article "Rich Man/Poor Man" by Carl Hancock Rux, [1])

Notable residents (past and present)

Politicians

• Councilmember Letitia James
• State Senator Velmanette Montgomery
• Assemblymen Hakeem Jeffries and Joseph Lentol
• U.S. Congressman Edolphus Towns.

All of Fort Greene's representatives are Democrats, although Letitia James was elected on the Working Families Party line. New York City Hall The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of the City of New York. ... New York City Council Member Letitia James. ... The New York State Senate is one of two houses in the New York State Legislature and has members each elected to two-year terms. ... Velmanette Montgomery represents District 18 in the New York State Senate, which is comprised of Fort Greene, Boerum Hill, Red Hook, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Park Slope, among other neighborhoods located within the borough of Brooklyn. ... The chamber of the New York State Assembly. ... Hakeem Jeffries (b. ... Joseph Lentol represents District 50 in the New York State Assembly, which is comprised of Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Fort Greene, among other neighborhoods located in the northern portion of the borough of Brooklyn. ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ... Edolphus Ed Towns (born July 21, 1934) is an American politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 10th District of New York. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. ... The Working Families Party (WFP) is a left-wing-progressive minor political party in the US state of New York, which has now expanded efforts into a number of other states, including the creation of the Connecticut Working Families Party and organizing projects in a number of other states. ...

Writers

• Poet Walt Whitman, who was influential in the creation of Fort Greene Park in 1843
• Poet Marianne Moore
• Novelist Richard Wright who wrote Native Son while living in Fort Greene
• Novelist Baynard Rush Hall, 1798-1863 ,wrote "Frank Freeman's Barbershop"
• Novelist John Steinbeck's first apartment when he moved to New York in 1925 was on Fort Greene Place.
• Novelist Jhumpa Lahiri
• Novelist/Poet/Playwright Carl Hancock Rux
• Music Journalist Touré
• Music Journalist/Novelist Nelson George
• Playwright Michael Weller
• Novelist Colson Whitehead
• Novelist Colin Channer
• Playwright Robert O'Hara
• Novelist Jennifer Egan
• Novelist Amanda Stern

Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. ... Year 1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Marianne Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Marianne Moore (December 11, 1887 - February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. ... Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories and non-fiction. ... For other uses, see Native Son (disambiguation). ... John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. ... Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias (born Nilanjana Sudeshna in 1967) (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী Jhumpa Lahiŗi) is a contemporary Indian American author based in New York City. ... Carl Hancock Rux, (b. ... Toure Touré (b. ... Nelson George Nelson George (b. ... Michael Weller (b. ... Colson Whitehead (full name Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead) is a New York-based novelist, born in 1969. ... Colin Channer is a Jamaican writer, often referred to as “Bob Marley with a pen,” due to the spiritual, sensual, social themes presented from a literary Jamaican perspective. ... Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. ...

Musicians

• El-P (underground hip hop artist and founder of Definitive Jux Records). His critically acclaimed album "I'll Sleep When You're Dead" was recorded at his residence in Fort Greene
• Late rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard
• Jazz matriarch Betty Carter
• Cecil Taylor
• Branford Marsalis
• Gary Bartz
• Rev. Hezekiah Walker
• Lester Bowie
• Steve Coleman
• Bill Stephney of The Bomb Squad
• Vernon Reid of Living Colour
• Citizen Cope
• Lisa Fischer
• Dana Dane
• Songwriter Gordon Chambers
• Bill Lee
• Slide Hampton lived at 245 Carlton Avenue where he rented rooms to Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, and Wayne Shorter. John Coltrane was also a frequent visitor.
• Carla Cook
• Toshi Reagon
• John Wesley Harding

El-Producto or El-P (born Jaime Meline) is well known in underground hip hop circles as a pioneer whose work with the trio Company Flow (El-P, Big Jus and Mr. ... Ill Sleep When Youre Dead is the second full-length studio album by Brooklyn, New York producer and rapper El-P, released on his own Definitive Jux label on March 20, 2007, almost a full five years after his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Fantastic Damage. ... Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004) was an American MC known by the stage name Ol Dirty Bastard (often shortened to ODB). ... Betty Carter Betty Carter (May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was a prominent American jazz singer, who was renowned for her improvisational techniques. ... Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American pianist and poet. ... Branford Marsalis. ... Gary Bartz (born in 1940) is an American alto and soprano saxophonist. ... Pastor Hezekiah Walker is a popular American gospel music artist and pastor of prominent Brooklyn New York megachurch Love Fellowship Tabernacle. ... Lester Bowie (11 October 1941–8 November 1999) was a jazz trumpet player and composer. ... Steve Coleman in Paris, July 2004 Steve Coleman (born 20 September 1956) is an American saxophone player, spontaneous composer, composer and band leader. ... The Bomb Squad is a hip hop production team whose original members were Carl Ridenhour (Chuck D), Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee and Eric Vietnam Sadler and Gary G-Wiz. ... Vernon Reid (born August 22, 1958) is a guitar player, perhaps best known as the founder and primary songwriter of hard rock group Living Colour. ... Living Colour is a hard rock group formed in New York city in 1983 by Vernon Reid. ... Citizen Cope is both a person, Clarence Greenwood, and a band. ... Lisa Fischer is an American R&B singer best known for her abilities in the whistle register and her 1991 hit single How Can I Ease the Pain. Fischer was born in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. ... Dana Dane (born Dana McLeese) is a hip-hop artist known for humorous lyrics (performed with a fake English accent) and for his fashion sense. ... Bill Lee (born July 23, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American musician. ... Slide Hampton is a jazz trombonist and arranger. ... Eric Allan Dolphy (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was a jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. ... Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (born April 7, 1938 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American jazz trumpeter. ... John Leslie Wes Montgomery was an African-American jazz guitarist. ... Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. ... John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... Carla Cook is Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist. ... Toshi Reagon is an American folk/blues musician. ... John Wesley Harding (b. ...

Actors and directors

• Spike Lee who grew up in the neighborhood and maintains his movie studio 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks there. Several of his films, including She's Gotta Have It, and She Hate Me were partially shot in Fort Greene.
• Chris Rock
• Academy Award nominated actress Rosie Perez
• Film director and cinematographer Ernest Dickerson
• Isaiah Washington
• Wesley Snipes
• Saul Williams
• Roger Guenveur Smith
• Ntare Mwine
• Tony award winning actor Denis O'Hare

This section has been identified as trivia. ... [[Image:40Acreandamulefilmworks. ... Shes Gotta Have It is a 1986 comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee. ... She Hate Me (2004) is a LGBT feature film directed by Spike Lee and starring Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, and Ellen Barkin. ... Christopher Julius Rock III[1] (born February 7, 1965)[2] is an Emmy and Grammy Award-winning American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. ... Rosa Maria Perez (born September 6, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, dancer, choreographer and director. ... Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American film director and cinematographer. ... Isaiah Washington IV (born August 3, 1963) is an American actor. ... Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962, in Orlando, Florida) is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. ... Saul Stacey Williams is most known for his blend of spoken word poetry and hip-hop. ... Roger Guenveur Smith in Final Destination (2000) Roger Guenveur Smith (born July 27, 1959 in Berkeley, California) is an American writer, director, and actor. ... Denis OHare (born January 17, 1962 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA) is a Tony Award-winning actor. ...

Artists & art curators

Okwi Enwezor

Martin Henson - Video Editor Inventor of the L Cut and Jump Cut

Non arts-related fields

• Dr. Susan McKinney Stewart 1847-1918

The first African American woman to receive a medical degree in New York State and the third in the U.S., McKinney-Steward began medical study at the New York Medical College for Women in 1867. She specialized in homeopathic medicine and, after three years, graduated as class valedictorian. After receiving her degree, she achieved wealth and a local reputation as a successful Brooklyn physician, operating her practice at her family home, 205 DeKalb Ave., with an interracial clientele. In 1911, McKinney-Stewart attended a Universal Race Congress in London, where she delivered a paper on "Colored American Women." She died in 1918, at Wilberforce University, eulogized by W.E.B. DuBois. She is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Dr. Susan McKinney Stewart (1847-1918) was a pioneer in medicine, a physician, and one of the first Black women to earn a medical degree, and the first in the U.S. state of New York. ... Wilberforce University, located in Wilberforce, Ohio, was founded in 1856. ... W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced ) (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was a civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar, and socialist. ... The Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, it was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. ...

• Nicky Cruz (December 6, 1938 in San Juan, Puerto Rico)

evangelism preacher Nicky Cruz was a gang-leader in Fort Green. Nicky Cruz (b. ... December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: Location of San Juan within the island of Puerto Rico Coordinates: Country United States Territory Puerto Rico Founded 1508/1521 Area  - City 76. ... Evangelical has several distinct meanings: In its original sense, it means belonging or related to the Gospel (Greek: euangelion - good news) of the New Testament. ... Preacher is a colloquial term for a clergyman, in particular a local priest, pastor or Minister; one who preaches. ... Nicky Cruz (b. ...

See also

• List of Brooklyn neighborhoods
• Junior's

These are the neighborhoods of Brooklyn, one of five boroughs of New York City. ... Juniors is a restaurant at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn. ...

References

• McCullough, D. 1776, Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-2671-2
• Lockwood, Charles, Bricks and Brownstone, The New York Townhouse 1783-1928, Abbeville Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8478-2522-1
• Morrone, Francis, An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2001. ISBN 1-58685-047-4
• of Fort Greene. Retrieved May 9, 2006.

May 9 is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

External links

• Fort Greene Association
• Fort Greene Park Conservancy

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Bedford is a community in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, centered approximately at the corner of modern-day Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue. ... Bedford-Stuyvesant (also known as Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Bensonhurst Embankment is a common walkway in Bensonhurst Bensonhurst is a neighborhood located in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Bergen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Boerum Hill is a small segment of Brooklyn roughly bounded by State Street to the north, 3rd Avenue to the east, Court Street to the west, and Warren Street to the south. ... Borough Park street covered with snow. ... A Russian-language bookstore under the elevated train tracks in Brighton Beach Newly built luxury co-ops on Brighton Beach Where apartments and private homes meet Brighton Beach is a community on Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... Expensive real estate: Brooklyn Heights in the snow taken from the Promenade, 2003 Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn; originally designated through popular reference as Brooklyn Village, it has, since 1834, become a prevalent area of the Brooklyn borough. ... Brownsville is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn. ... Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Cadman Plaza, with Columbus statue in the center Cadman Plaza Park, is located on the border between the Brooklyn Heights historic neighborhood and Downtown Brooklyn. ... A typical street in Canarsie. ... Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA named for Charles Carroll, a revolutionary war veteran who was also the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. ... City Line is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, bordering the neighborhood of Ozone Park, Queens to the east, and the neighborhoods of East New York to the west, Cypress Hills to the north, and Jamaica Bay to the south. ... Clinton Hill is a small neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, New York. ... Cobble Hill is a Brooklyn neighborhood in New York City, USA. Bordered by Atlantic Avenue on the north, Hicks Street to the west, Smith Street on the east and Degraw Street to the south, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights with Carroll Gardens to the south. ... For other uses, see Coney Island (disambiguation). ... Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... For other uses, see, Cypress Hills (disambiguation) Cypress Hills is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, lying north of City Line and south of Cypress Hills Cemetery, in the far northeastern corner of Brooklyn. ... Ditmas Park is one of three Flatbush neighbourhoods which has been officially designated a Historic District. ... Skyline of Downtown Brooklyn seen from the East River Metro Tech is a business center in Downtown Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City (following Midtown Manhattan and Downtown Manhattan), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn. ... A view of part of DUMBO with Manhattan in the distance DUMBO (an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is the popular name of a neighborhood in Brooklyn. ... Dyker Heights is a neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn, New York, USA. It is sandwiched between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst on Gravesend Bay(Lower New York Bay). ... East Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... East New York is a primarily low to middle income neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... East Williamsburg is a neighborhood in northeastern portion of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... Fiske Terrace is a planned community and neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. ... Flatbush is a community of the Borough of Brooklyn, a part of New York City, consisting of several neighborhoods. ... Flatlands is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... The park stip between the shore road and Narrows Fort Hamilton is a neighborhood in the far southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn,. It is located south of Bay Ridge and is often considered part of Bay Ridge. ... Fulton Ferry is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Georgetown is a small neighborhood east of Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn. ... Gerritsen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located near Marine Park and Sheepshead Bay, in Brooklyn Community Board 15. ... Gowanus is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA, situated roughly between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens on the west and Park Slope on the East. ... Afternoon by the Sea (Gravesend Bay), a pastel by William Merritt Chase, ca 1888 shows traditional catboats in the bay and the Navesink Highlands across Lower New York Bay. ... Landmark 19th-century rowhouses on tree-lined street in the Greenpoint Historic District Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Homecrest is a neighborhood situated in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Kensington is a neighborhood in the center of the New York City, borough of Brooklyn. ... Little Poland is an informal name for part of a neighborhood in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. ... Manhattan Beach is a beach on the Atlantic Ocean situated on the eastern end of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. ... Gerritsen Avenue is a major traffic corridor in the nighborhood. ... Midwood has a substantial population of Haredi Jews and Modern Orthodox Jews, many of whom live and worship in the side streets around Kings Highway Midwood is a neighborhood located in the south central part of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, USA, roughly halfway between Prospect Park and Coney... Mill Basin/ Mill Island is a neighborhood in New York City in the southeastern portion of the borough of Brooklyn lying along Jamaica Bay and bounded to the north by Avenue U, and to the east, south, and west by the Mill Basin / Mill Island Inlet. ... The New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the New York Navy Yard and United States Navy Yard, New York, is located 1. ... New Lots is a section of Brooklyn New York. ... New Utrecht New Utrecht is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... Ocean Hill is a neighborhood on the Northeastern section of Brooklyn in New York City. ... Ocean Parkway is a broad boulevard and associated neighborhood in the west central portion of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... A typical Park Slope block in spring. ... Pigtown formerly described a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, existing as such until approximately the end of the 19th century. ... Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway to the south, and, traditionally, Washington Avenue to the east,[1] though some people have recently begun to claim boundaries as far east... Prospect-Lefferts Gardens is the name given to a neighborhood in Flatbush in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ... Subway line passes through the neighborhood Prospect Park South is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the community of Flatbush. ... A Holland-Style Factory Building in Red Hook Red Hook circa 1875 Red Hook is a neighborhood of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, USA. Before annexation into Brooklyn, Red Hook was a separate village. ... Seagate, Brooklyn was built at the far western end of Coney Island at the southern tip of Brooklyn. ... Sheepshead Bay is a bay separating the mainland of Brooklyn, New York City from the eastern portion of Coney Island, the latter originally a barrier island but now effectively an extension of the mainland with peninsulas both east and west. ... South Brooklyn is a hybrid neighborhood encompassing areas of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Gowanus and Boerum Hill. ... In 2003, Starrett City changed its name to the Spring Creek Towers. ... Stuyvesant Heights is a neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn (New York City) founded in the mid-1800s when the borough was incorporated as a city at that time. ... Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southern Brooklyn section of Brooklyn, New York, USA. The neighborhood is located south of Park Slope and Windsor Terrace, separated by Green-Wood Cemetery and the Prospect Expressway/NY-27, while 65th Street and the Gowanus Expressway/I-278 mark the end of... Vinegar Hill is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City on the East River waterfront between DUMBO and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. ... Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordering Greenpoint, Bed-Stuy, and Bushwick. ... A circle of greenery in Windsor Terrace Windsor Terrace is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ...
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