Fort Greene
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Fort Green is northeast of Prospect Park and south of the Brooklyn Navy Yard usually associated with the Atlantic Terminal. In 1776 a Revolution War fort was built in the area, under the supervision of General Nathanael Greene and gave the neighborhood its name. The Fort Greene Park was the first park built in Brooklyn and was originally called the Washington Park. Fort Greene is home to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Music School, the MoCADA, the Irondale Center for Theater and the competitive Brooklyn Technical High School.
The early days of Ft. Greene were tumultuous times which began with the migration of Native Americans from Delaware to the area being purchased by Joris Jansen Rapelje and was known as the Wallabout Bay, where the Brooklyn Navy Yard now stands. Italian immigrant Peter Caesar Alberti started a tobacco plantation in 1649 and was killed six years later by Native Americans. The 19th century brought the most significant growth of the neighborhood when the recently freed African Americans moved into the neighborhood and opened Brooklyn’s first school for African-Americans and made the neighborhood a major stop along the Underground Railroad. In 1863 the principle of P.S. 67 was African American and Dr. Phillip A. White became the first black member of Brooklyn’s Board of Education in 1882.
As Manhattan became more and more crowded, well-off residents moved to Fort Greene in the unoccupied Myrtle Avenue where Walt Whitman called for a park to be constructed to aid the terrible conditions of the neighborhood so that the neighborhood’s wealthy and non-wealthy had a pleasant place to go.
The park opened in 1897, designed by Central Park’s designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, making it the first park in Brooklyn. In 1908 the Brooklyn Academy of Music was rebuilt in Fort Greene and made the area an important cultural destination. By the 1960s, Fort Greene was a dangerous neighborhood facing city-wide poverty, crime and drugs leaving some homes abandoned. The artists and Black professionals stayed to restore the neighborhood. Today Fort Greene is facing gentrification however stands as a truly racially and economically diverse neighborhoods in America.
Notable residents include Marianne Moore, Walt Whitman, Nelson George, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Patti Smith and Dr. Susan McKinney Stewart.
