Fort Greene, Brooklyn
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ZIP Codes | 11238, 11201, 11205, 11217 |
Area code | 718, 347, 929, and 917 |
Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of the
The neighborhood is named after an
Fort Greene contains many examples of mid-19th century
Fort Greene is part of Brooklyn Community District 2, and its primary ZIP Codes are 11201, 11205, 11217, and 11238.[1] It is patrolled by the 88th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.[6] Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 35th District.[7] 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.[8]
History
Early history
In approximately A.D. 800, a gradual movement of
19th century
Settlement
In 1801, the
Since the early 19th century,
Crowding
In the 1850s, Fort Greene's growth spread out from stagecoach lines on
As Manhattan became more crowded, people of all classes made Fort Greene their home. The unoccupied areas of Myrtle Avenue became an Irish 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.
However, The New York Times soon found that the area was too expensive for some, and that many in the area were penurious:
The poverty stricken condition of the inhabitants residing in the [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill district] of Brooklyn render it almost an unknown land.[10]
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."[11]
— Letter to the editor, The New York Times, c.1858
Washington Park, renamed
On April 24, 1888, the Fulton Street Elevated 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.
20th century
Fort Greene in the early 20th century became a significant cultural destination. After the original
The poet
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 1957–58, 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.
From the 1960s through the 1980s, Fort Greene fought hard times that came with citywide poverty,
21st century
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 Furman Center at New York University),[8] Fort Greene stands to others as one of the best examples of a racially and economically diverse neighborhood. Commentary in The New York Times 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".[14] GQ describes it as "one of the rare racial mucous membranes in the five boroughs—it's getting white-ified but isn't there yet, and so is temporarily integrated".[15]
The controversial Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project to build an arena (later known as the Barclays Center) for the then-New Jersey Nets (now the Brooklyn Nets) and a complex of large commercial and residential high-rises on the border of Fort Greene and Prospect Heights garnered opposition from many neighborhood residents who formed coalitions.
In 1994
Fort Greene and Clinton Hill was the focus of The Local, a blog produced by
From 2001 to 2011, it was home to a popular bar called
In 2015, a group of anonymous artists
Demographics
Based on data from the
The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 52%
As of 2016, the median
According to the 2020 census data from New York City Department of City Planning, 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.[26][27] 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 NYCHA housing developments of Walt Whitman Houses and Ingersoll Houses.[28][29][30][31]
Boundaries
Although there are no official neighborhood boundaries in New York City,
Police and crime
Fort Greene is patrolled by the 88th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 298 Classon Avenue.[6] A second precinct building, the 84th Precinct at 301 Gold Street,[37] is physically located in Fort Greene but does not serve the neighborhood.[38]
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.[39] As of 2018[update], with a non-fatal assault rate of 40 per 100,000 people, Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights' rate of violent crimes 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.[22]: 8
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.[40]
Fire safety
Fort Greene is served by two New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations.[41] 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,[42] while Engine Co. 210 is located at 160 Carlton Avenue, serving the eastern part of the neighborhood.[43]
Health
As of 2018[update], preterm births 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).[22]: 11 Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights have a relatively low population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive healthcare through Medicaid.[44] 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.[22]: 14
The concentration of
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%.[22]: 13 For every supermarket in Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights, there are 12 bodegas.[22]: 10
Post offices and ZIP Codes
Education
Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights generally have a higher ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018[update]. 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.[22]: 6 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.[50]
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
Educational and cultural institutions
Fort Greene is home to Brooklyn Technical High School, one of New York City's most competitive public schools,[51] and Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School. Success Academy Charter Schools opened Success Academy Fort Greene in 2013 as an elementary school.[52] 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.[8]
The prestigious Pratt Institute is in neighboring Clinton Hill.
Fort Greene is also home to the
Library
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL)'s Walt Whitman branch is located at 93 Saint Edwards Street. The current Carnegie library structure opened in 1908, though a library had existed in Fort Greene since 1900.[53]
Transportation
The neighborhood is served by the
Fort Greene is served by NYC Ferry's Astoria route, which stops at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.[56] The Brooklyn Navy Yard stop opened on May 20, 2019.[57][58]
There are plans to build the Brooklyn–Queens Connector (BQX), a light rail system that would run along the waterfront from Red Hook through Fort Greene to Astoria in Queens. However, the system is projected to cost $2.7 billion, and the projected opening has been delayed until at least 2029.[59][60]
Notable residents
Politicians and political activists
- Letitia James (born 1958), Attorney General of New York[61]
- Hakeem Jeffries (born 1970), U.S. representative for New York's 8th congressional district
- Velmanette Montgomery (born 1942), State Senator
- Walter T. Mosley (born 1967), Assemblyman
- Zephyr Teachout (born 1971), associate law professor at Fordham University and 2014 Democratic gubernatorial candidate[63]
- Conrad Tillard (born 1964), politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and civil rights activist
Writers
- Helen Adam (1909–1993), Scottish poet, collagist and photographer[64]
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1903–1981), Harlem Renaissance writer and artist
- Sarah Benson (born 1977/78), director of avant-garde theatre productions[65]
- Uli Beutter Cohen, documentarian[66]
- Truman Capote (1924–1984), novelist
- Colin Channer (born 1963), novelist[67]
- Jennifer Egan (born 1962), novelist[68]
- Sasha Frere-Jones (born 1967), writer and former music critic for The New Yorker[69]
- music journalist and novelist[70]
- Amitav Ghosh, novelist
- Clara Whitehill Hunt (1871–1958), children's novelist
- David Henry Hwang, playwright
- Jhumpa Lahiri, novelist
- Karan Mahajan, novelist
- Marianne Moore, 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.[71]
- Carl Hancock Rux, novelist, poet, playwright, and recording artist
- John Steinbeck, novelist
- Adario Strange, writer-filmmaker
- music journalistand TV host
- Adelle Waldman (born 1977), novelist, columnist and blogger[72]
- Michael Weller (born 1942), playwright
- Colson Whitehead (born 1969), novelist, lived in the area early in his career[73]
- Walt Whitman, poet who was influential in the creation of Fort Greene Park in 1843
- Richard Wright (1908–1960), novelist, wrote Native Son while living at 175 Carlton Avenue[74]
Artists
Photographers and visual artists
- Ernest Crichlow (1914–2005), social realist artist[75]
- Kyle DeWoody (born 1984/85), gallery owner and curator[76]
- Akiko Ichikawa, artist and activist
- Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photographer
- Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), photographer
- Chris Ofili, artist
- José Parlá, artist
- David Salle, painter
- Ken Schles (born 1960), photographer.[77]
- Lorna Simpson, photographer
- Mickalene Thomas, visual artist
- Kara Walker, visual artist
- Carrie Mae Weems, photographer
- Robert Wilson, artist and theater director
Musicians
- Erykah Badu, musician
- Gary Bartz, musician
- Lester Bowie (1941–1999), musician[78]
- Betty Carter, musician
- Steve Coleman, musician
- Carla Cook, musician
- Dana Dane, musician
- Slide Hampton, musician
- John Wesley Harding, singer
- hip-hop artist and founder of Definitive Jux Records; his album "I'll Sleep When You're Dead" was recorded at his residence in Fort Greene
- Ol' Dirty Bastard, rapper (deceased), grew up in Fort Greene[79]
- Digable Planets, hip-hop group
- ODB and RZA
- Popa Wu, patriarch of the Wu-Tang Clan
- Just-Ice, rapper
- Lisa Fischer, musician, born in Fort Greene
- Mary Halvorson, guitarist
- Talib Kweli, rapper
- Vernon Reid, musician of Living Colour
- Chubb Rock, rapper
- Justine Skye, singer
- Patti Smith, musician, now lives in the Rockaways[80]
- Cecil Taylor (1929–2018), jazz musician[81]
- Johnny Temple, musician with the bands Soulside and Girls Against Boys[82]
- Citizen Cope, musician
- Bill Lee, musician and father of Spike Lee; Rented rooms on Carlton Avenue to musicians Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Wes Montgomery, and Wayne Shorter.
- Branford Marsalis, musician
- Toshi Reagon, musician
- Rev. Hezekiah Walker, musician
- Mos Def, actor, rapper
- John Flansburgh and John Linnell of the band They Might Be Giants
- Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, founding member of The Last Poets
TV and movie industry
Directors, producers, choreographers
- Alan Ball (born 1957), screenwriter and producer; creator and writer of Six Feet Under and True Blood
- Ernest Dickerson, film director and cinematographer
- Lee Hirsch, documentary filmmaker; writer-director of Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002) and Bully (2011)
- 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks there, and several of his films, including She's Gotta Have It, and She Hate Mewere partially shot in Fort Greene.
- Sonya Tayeh, (born 1977/78) choreographer[83]
- Robert Verdi (born 1968), fashion stylist[84]
Actors and performers
- Uzo Aduba (born 1981), Golden-Globe-winning star of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black[85]
- Wyatt Cenac (born 1976), comedian, actor, producer and Emmy Award winning writer, who hosts and produces the HBO series Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas[86]
- Adrian Grenier (born 1976), actor who now lives in Clinton Hill[87]
- Gaby Hoffmann (born 1982), actress best known for her roles in Sleepless in Seattle, Transparent and Girls[88]
- Holly Hunter (born 1958), actress[89]
- Kyle Jean-Baptiste (1993–2015), actor[90]
- Denis O'Hare (born 1962), actor[91]
- Academy Award-nominated actor.[92]
- Christina Ricci (born 1980), actress.[93]
- Chris Rock, now lives in Alpine, New Jersey[94]
- Keri Russell
- Roger Guenveur Smith (born 1955), actor, director and writer
- Alek Wek
- Saul Williams, singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor (now lives in Paris[95])
- Jeffrey Wright
Athletes
- Taj Gibson (born 1985), NBA player[96]
- Ronald Holmberg (born 1938), ranked World No. 7 in tennis 1960 and in the U.S. Top 10 for nine years.[97]
- Michael Jordan (born 1963), entrepreneur, owner/chairman of the Charlotte Hornets, and former NBA player[98]
- Albert King (born 1959), former NBA player and younger brother of Bernard King[99]
- Bernard King (born 1956), former NBA player[100]
- Lia Neal (born 1995), 2012 US Olympic bronze-winning swimmer[101]
- Mike Tyson (born 1966), professional boxer who was undisputed heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990.[102]
Criminals
- Al Capone, born in Fort Greene[103]
- Nicky Cruz, former leader of a notorious New York City gang, The Mau-Maus; later became a Christian evangelist
- Kelvin Martin, an infamous robbery expert and criminal also known as the original 50 Cent
Other notables
- Brigadier General (Brevet) Edward Brush Fowler, American Civil War. Commander, 14th Regiment, also known as the 14th Brooklyn, nicknamed the Red Legged Devils at the First Battle of Bull Run; for whom Fowler Square is named
- religious sisterand founder/director of the Fort Greene Strategic Neighborhood Action Partnership
- esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society
- Dr. Susan McKinney Steward, first African American woman to receive a medical degree in New York State and the third in the U.S.
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- ^ Vincentelli, Elisabeth. "Sarah Benson Thinks Audiences Want a Challenge", The New York Times, July 5, 2023. Accessed March 5, 2024. "At a coffee spot near her home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the director, 45, chatted about her vision of theater and her plans for the future."
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- ^ Sasha Frere-Jones, MIT Press. Accessed March 5, 2024. "Sasha Frere-Jones grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn."
- Brooklyn Paper, March 18, 2014. Accessed March 5, 2024. "The Brooklyn Paper spoke with the writer and filmmaker from his home in Fort Greene to discuss the impact of Soul Train on American culture, and Spike Lee’s recent comments on the gentrification of his neighborhood."
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- ^ Gould, Emily. "Adelle Waldman Takes the Early Shift", The Cut, 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, surrounded almost exclusively by friends who were writers, agents, and critics."
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- ^ Potts, Monica. "Ernest Crichlow, 91, Lyrical Painter, Dies" Archived June 29, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, November 14, 2005. Accessed September 2, 2018. "Ernest Crichlow, an influential Harlem Renaissance painter whose depictions of African-Americans reflected social injustices and shifting social realities through much of the 20th century, died on Thursday at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn. He was 91 and lived in Fort Greene, Brooklyn."
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Further reading
- 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.
- History of Fort Greene. Retrieved May 9, 2006.
- Former resident Colson Whitehead writes about Fort Greene gentrification Archived May 11, 2020, at the Wayback Machine