Brooklyn
Sublets in Fort Greene
Brownstone & cultural
Brownstone blocks around an Olmsted-designed park on a hill, with BAM and the Mark Morris Dance Group at the bottom of it. A long-standing center of Black cultural life in Brooklyn, and one of the best-connected neighborhoods in the borough.
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What's in Fort Greene
Names a local would drop, and what each one actually is. Tap any to see it on a map.
park
Fort Greene Park
Olmsted and Vaux's first Brooklyn park, on a hill, with a Saturday greenmarket at the bottom of it.
culture
BAM
The Brooklyn Academy of Music: opera, dance, film and the Next Wave festival, since 1861.
food
DeKalb Avenue
The eating street. Soul food institutions next to wine bars next to bakeries, for ten blocks.
culture
Mark Morris Dance Center
A working dance company with open classes, across the street from BAM.
culture
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Three hundred acres of working industry on the waterfront, with a museum explaining 200 years of it.
What Fort Greene is like
Dining
DeKalb Avenue and Fulton Street carry it, from long-running soul food to newer wine bars and bakeries.
Nightlife
Jazz, cocktail bars and BAM's crowd. Grown-up without being stuffy.
Green space
Fort Greene Park is the center of everything here.
Getting around
- CLafayette Av
- GFulton St
- 2345BDNQRAtlantic Av-Barclays Ctr
- BQRDeKalb Av
11subway lines
Why people sublet here
- Fort Greene Park, designed by the Central Park team
- BAM, the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Barclays Center nearby
- Saturday greenmarket in the park
- Nine subway lines at Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center