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	Fort Greene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Greene is named after a Revolutionary War era fort that was rechristened in honor of General Nathaniel Greene of New Hampshire.
		Fort Greene Park is also, obviously, derived from General Greene's name and the neighborhood.
		Fort Greene is comprised of many superb examples of mid-19th Century Italianate and Eastlake architecture, most of which is well preserved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Greene (263 words)

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	Greene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fort Greene Park Fort Greene Park is a municipal New York, comprising 30.2 acres.
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	Fort Greene Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Greene Park is a municipal park in Brooklyn, New York, comprising 30.2 acres (122,000 mÂ²).
		During the War of 1812, when the possibility of a British invasion led to the re-use of the site for defense, the newly rebuilt fortification was named Fort Greene in his honor.
		The neighborhood around the park is also known as Fort Greene.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Greene_Park (279 words)

	The History of Fort Greene Park
		The park would be a "lung" to provide the densely populated city with free circulation of air and where the people could spend a few grateful hours in the enjoyment of wholesome rest.
		Their design approach called for a park with a "somewhat rural character", consisting of "a series of shady walks that will have an outlook of open grassy spaces at intervals." A vine covered arbor was placed at the top of the park to take advantage of the cool breezes of the summit.
		Currently, restoration efforts are underway to bring the park to a state of good repair, for the preservation of history and for the enjoyment of future generations.
	www.fortgreenepark.org /pages/history1.htm (744 words)

	Fort Greene Now! - Fort Greene Park
		Fort Greene Park is Brooklyn's oldest park as well as the nation's first urbanized public park.
		The fort, under the leadership of General Nathaniel Greene, successfully defended a retreat across the East River by George Washington during the battle of Brooklyn.
		The 30-acre space was established as Brooklyn's first park in 1847 at the constant urging of poet, Walt Whitman who was at that time the editor of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and already celebrated for his poetry.
	www.fortgreenenow.com /fortgreenePark.cfm (336 words)

	Fort Greene PUPS \| Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fort Greene Park Users and Pets Society (PUPS) is a collective group of dog owners who use Fort Greene Park on a regular basis.
		We are responsible dog owners who believe that in order to enjoy the park's beautiful grounds and many resources, we must clean up after our dogs, keep our dogs under control, and prevent our dogs from harming the park's landscape.
		We are in the park 365 days a year, rain or shine, providing a network of eyes and ears, adding to the park's security.
	www.fortgreenepups.org /mission.html (369 words)

	Fort Greene apartment rent sublets. Fort Greene Rent apartment rentals sublets Fort Greene roommates and rooms for ...
		Fort Greene is one of the oldest African American neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
		Fort Greene continues to attract artists and musicians, students, and businesspeople with cheaper rents, diversity, and its wealthy cultural experience.
		Fort Greene rents ranges from $900 to $2900 based on the size of the apartment.
	www.sublet.com /spider/AreaDesc/Brooklyn/FortGreene.html (125 words)

	Newsletter
		Fort Greene Park is a landmark, cherished for its history, rolling landscape, trees, and monuments.
		The Brooklyn fort was renamed for General Greene and rebuilt for the War of 1812.
		Parks architect Gilmore D. Clarke regraded the grounds, added new trees and shrubs, replaced the winding paths with more formal walks, remodeled the playgrounds, and created new spaces for athletic activities.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_newsroom/daily_plants/daily_plant_main.php?id=18808 (665 words)

	Great Public Spaces: Fort Greene Park \| Project for Public Spaces (PPS) - Placemaking for Communities
		DeKalb and Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY It is a grand park with a central monument.
		The park is bounded by a hospital on one side, projects on another, and grand old houses on the remaining two sides, which recently have skyrocketed in price.
		Fort Greene Park was established in 1847 and designed by Olmstead and Vaux in 1864.
	www.pps.org /gps/one?public_place_id=701 (554 words)

	fort greene association brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Fort Greene Association is devoted to historic preservation, neighborhood and park enhancement, as well as cultural, economic and housing advancement.
		Current aims are to move Fort Greene forward in concert with such enviable neighborhood assets as the Brooklyn Academy of Music and its Local development Corporation, 651 Arts for African American programming, Atlantic Center, Pratt Institute, LIU, Brooklyn Music School, and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.
		On Saturday, June 18, 2005, as part of the all-day Leaves of Grass / Walt Whit-man celebration in Fort Greene Park, the Richard Wright Project [RWP] is sponsor-ing three events to honor the legacy of Wright’s literature.
	www.historicfortgreene.org (338 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Fort Greene Development
		Fort Greene, with its tree lined blocks of turn-of-the-century townhouses and it’s wealth of cultural institutions, is one of the city’s most dynamic and beautiful neighborhoods.
		Fort Greene Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux of Central Park fame.
		Fort Greene has been home to artists and writers from Walt Whitman to Spike Lee as well as Professionals and families of all backgrounds and races.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=5808&page=3 (888 words)

	Rent-Direct.com: Brooklyn apartments rentals Fort Greene - Clinton Hill
		Fort Greene is full of musicians, dancers, artists and Spike Lee's film headquarters.
		Fort Greene / Clinton Hill : This area is attractive to both singles and families.
		Fort Greene Park is a lovely respite for lounging and laying.
	www.rent-direct.com /Brooklyn_Apartments/fort_greene-clinton_hill.html (317 words)

	Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership: Places of Interest
		Fort Greene Park is located between Myrtle and DeKalb Avenues on the North and South, and Fort Greene Place and Washington Park on the West and East.
		It is both a neighborhood park and historically significant site, named for Revolutionary War General Nathaniel Greene, who oversaw the construction of Fort Putnam at the summit of the park in 1776.
		The Wallabout area of Fort Greene is roughly located between Myrtle Avenue and the Navy Yard, from Classon to Carlton Avenues.
	www.myrtleavenue.org /theNeighborhood_placesInterest.cfm (659 words)

	Fort Greene, Brooklyn
		The Fort Greene Park District, the area around Myrtle Avenue and Cumberland Street, was a silk stocking district in the 1890's.
		During the Revolution the park site was occupied by Fort Putnam, one of the chain of forts used by Washington in the Battle of Long Island A garrison was stationed there from 1812 to 1815 and the fort renamed for General Greene.
		The City Prison (Raymond Street Jail), Ashland Place and Willoughby Street, on the edge of Fort Greene Park, is Brooklyn's "Tombs." (Raymond Street was the former name of Ashland Place.) The dark-gray building, medieval in design, with castellated turrets, comprises a four-story central wing and a six-story annex.
	www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/fort_greene.html (943 words)

	District 35: Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Background: Located in central Brooklyn, District 35 encompasses the neighborhoods of Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Crown Heights and is home to such well-known attractions as the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
		Named after Revolutionary War general Nathaniel Greene, Fort Greene is a historic district that includes many attractive brownstones and historic sites such as the Olmsted and Vaux-designed Fort Greene Park, Hanson Place Baptist Church (a stop on the Underground Railroad), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
		Several of the district’s parks, including the historic Fort Greene Park and Commodore Barry Park, are in need of restoration.
	www.nylcv.org /ecofiles/brooklyn/html/ccd35.htm (642 words)

	Fort Greene Community Speaks Out
		Billed as a "community speak-out" by the group that organized it, six-month old Fort Greene Together, residents were invited to address the causes of the gentrification that is so apparent as one walks along lower Fulton Street.
		The poverty rate for Fort Greene as a whole is 31% outside of the three public-housing projects, Lafayette, Farragut, and Whitman Houses.
		Most of the housing stock in Fort Greene is exempt from rent regulations, because it primarily consists of two- to five-family houses.
	www.tenant.net /Tengroup/Metcounc/Jul01/fortgreene.html (781 words)

	Fisherman's History
		Nathaniel Greene, an American Revolutionary soldier born in Potowomut, Rhode Island, was appointed Brigadier General of the Rhode Island Forces in 1775.
		General Greene was the president of the military court that tried Major John Andre as an accomplice of Benedict Arnold for espionage and treachery.
		The park development of the area will supplement the facilities at Sand Hill Cove and Scarborough State Beaches with its' accessibility from both beaches and its' generally favorable terrain for picnic areas, game areas, and observation vantage points of the nearby ocean and Point Judith pond area.
	www.riparks.com /fishermanshistory.htm (422 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Green Day:. by Chris Mooney. November 16, 2000. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Besides sack races and a space walk, a main attraction was the second annual Fort Greene PUPS (Park Users and Pets Society) Halloween dog costume parade, featuring a canine Xena and Hercules duo, a Rottweiler Tinkerbell, and several bride and groom pairs.
		During the city's fiscal crisis of the 1970s, parks funding was rolled back, and both Central Park and its lesser-known satellites suffered, becoming widely regarded as centers of crime and drugs.
		In 1980, the Central Park Conservancy was formed, a highbrow foundation that has since collected hundreds of millions of dollars from donors living in the rich zip codes near the park.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2000/11/mooney-c-11-16.html (1533 words)

	Hanson Place Seventh-day Adventist Church - Our Community - Fort Greene
		By 1806 the citizens of Fort Greene began collecting those remains for interment in a small crypt near the western edge of the Navy Yard.
		Surmounting the chamber under the park’s broad granite stairway is an arched ceiling composed of Guastavino tiles.
		In the 1920s-40s Fort Greene was a brightly lit Hollywood showcase with numerous cinemas, including the Paramount from 1928 which had a great Wurlitzer organ, still in place.
	www.hansonplace.org /our_community.asp (2194 words)

	Fort Greene - Clinton Hill - New York City Neighborhood - NYC
		In landmark Fort Greene, you'll find graceful houses with lots of period detail along Cumberland, South Portland, and South Oxford Streets—and a lot of strollers: "Fort Greene Park has been completely redone," says resident Sandra Shepard.
		Vanderbilt Avenue divides Fort Greene to the west and Clinton Hill to the east.
		Anything between Myrtle and Park Avenues is cheaper than anything between Willoughby and Gates Avenues, the prime blocks.
	www.metronewyork.com /realestate/articles/neighborhoods/fortgreeneclinton.htm (582 words)

	Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Georgia
		As we walked, the fort loomed closer and closer, although we were at least a mile away.
		The museum in the Fort Pulaski Visitors Center is an excellent look into the natural and human history of Cockspur Island and the fort itself, and is well worth taking the time to see.
		We explored the individual casements where the artillery was housed, and circled on the top of the fort (the "ramparts") for a clear view of Tybee Island, so we could understand what the opposing forces looked like to the Confederates.
	roadsidegeorgia.com /site/fort_pulaski.html (800 words)

	Fort Greene Park - Sports & Recreation - Brooklyn, NY, 11205 - Citysearch
		Fort Greene Park is the heart of its predominantly African-American neighborhood.
		Not far from Fort Greene Park is the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the premiere performing arts institution of the borough.
		Adjacent to the park's west end is one branch of the Brooklyn Hospital Center, a teaching facility that provides comprehensive health care.
	newyork.citysearch.com /profile/11350467 (366 words)

	New York Blade Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The park is considered the heart of Fort Greene and plays host to a number of cultural and community events, including Black Pride.
		Fort Greene and Clinton Hill began to deteriorate after the war.
		Fort Greene and Clinton Hill escaped the worst of the urban blight that plagued adjacent Bedford-Stuyvesant and other Brooklyn neighborhoods during the 1970s.
	www.newyorkblade.com /2004/11-5/locallife/main/black.cfm (1207 words)

	traffic and transportation committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		MTA to Reopen South Portland Exit, Fulton Street Station on G-Train The Fort Greene Association is pleased to announce that the MTA has advised that the South Portland exit of the Queens-bound platform of the Fulton Street G-Train station will be opened by the end of July.
		The Fort Greene Association and Councilwoman Tish James rallied the community to appeal to the MTA to consider opening this exit.
		The Fort Greene Association's Traffic and Transport Committee is a sub committee of Quality of Life and Parks, dedicated to traffic and transit issues in the neighborhood.
	www.fortgreeneny.com /traffic.html (1430 words)

	The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monment in Fort Greene Park, Myrtle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monment in Fort Greene Park, Myrtle Avenue and Cumberland Street, designed by Stanford White and dedicated in 1908, rises high above the surrounding plateau and is reached from the street level by a 100-foot-wide stone stairway broken into three flights.
		During the Revolution the park site was occupied by Fort Putnam, one of the chain of forts used by Washington in the Battle of Long Island.
		A garrison was stationed there from 1812 to 1815, and the fort renamed for General Greene.
	www.panix.com /userdirs/cassidy/BROOKLYN/PRISONSHIP.html (228 words)

	Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership: Press Releases
		(Fort Greene, Brooklyn, May 19, 2005) - The 1855 publication of the first edition of Walt Whitmanâs Leaves of Grass is called âthe central literary event of the nineteenth centuryâ by biographer Jerome Loving.
		The celebration takes place in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, on Saturday, June 18th starting at 11am, with afternoon and evening events continuing at seventeen businesses along Myrtle Avenue until 11pm, organized by the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership (MARP LDC and the new Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn BID).
		The celebration in Fort Greene Park concludes with an open microphone poetry reading that is scheduled from 2pm to 4 pm.
	www.myrtleavenue.org /newsPress_press_LeavesOfGrass1.cfm (560 words)

	fort greene
		The Fort Greene Association is devoted to historic preservation...
		From the (1939) WPA Guide to New York City: The Fort Greene Park District, the area around Myrtle Avenue and Cumberland Street, was a silk stocking district...
		Fort Greene - Clinton Hill - New York City Neighborhood - NYC A guide to the neighborhood and real estate market of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
	www.hvrequest.com /fort-greene.htm (445 words)

	Wired New York Forum - Fort Greene Development
		In addition to Whitman, Fort Greene has also been the home of poet Marianne Mooore and Richard Wright, the author of Native Son, and the rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard.
		''The reaction to this was disgusted resignation,'' said Howard Pitsch, chairman of the Fort Greene Association, a civic group, which is now working to change zoning in the area, to eliminate the threat of additional towers.
		It is under construction on the corner of Carlton Avenue and Greene Avenue, at the edge of the historic district of ornate row houses.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=5808&page=3 (1546 words)

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