Category Archives: Landmarks
Community Board 2 News
All residents are welcome to attend the following upcoming Community Board 2 Meetings: Executive Committee Monday, April 23, 6:00 PM Long Island University (DeKalb and Hudson avenues) Library Learning Center Room 515 The committee will either vote on (“For Executive Committee Action”) or refer to the full board (“For Board Action”) recommendations on the [...]
Top Stories in and around Fort Greene
Week Ending January 14, 2012 Fort Greene Association’s Facebook & Twitter Top Stories Sponsored by The Communications and Community Engagement Committee of the Fort Greene Association (FGA) sources daily news about Fort Greene and the surrounding neighborhoods to keep you up to speed on what’s going on and to highlight what makes our community unique. [...]
Sign the FGA Petition to Calendar the Extension of the Fort Greene Historic District
Give yourself and your neighborhood the most memorable 2012. Thirty-nine years ago in 1973 impassioned neighbors worked toward the goal of establishing the Fort Greene Historic District, foreseeing the vibrant multi-cultural neighborhood we have today. In 1978 their efforts were rewarded and the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission [LPC] designated a part of Fort Greene as [...]
Read the November 2009 FGA Newsletter
The November 2009 FGA Newsletter is available online. Click to download file Inside this edition: - Out of Scale Project Threatens the Hard Won R6B Downzoning of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill - Greenlight Bookstore: A Neighborhood Effort - FGA Grants Putting Your Donation Dollars to Work - Plus all the Goings-on in Newscenes Reach [...]
Read the September 2009 FGA Newsletter
The September 2009 FGA Newsletter is available online. Click to download file BAM is proud to underwrite this issue of the Fort Greene Association newsletter.
Read the Spring 2009 FGA Newsletter
The Spring 2009 FGA Newsletter is available online. Click to download file
The City Concealed - Inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Channel 13 is offering an online video series exploring the unseen corners of New York. The series plans to “visit the places you don’t know exist, locations you can’t get into, or maybe don’t even want to.” This episode chronicles the rich history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Uniquely Brooklyn, Uniquely Historic, Uniquely Proud. Worth [...]
Historic District Extension
Extension/Unification of the Fort Greene and Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic Districts When the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designated two of Brooklyn’s Historic Districts in 1978, it was a glory for neighborhood advocates, as well as an abject disappointment. What had been proposed as one great Fort Greene Historic District was now disjoined. Members of [...]
Admiral’s Row and Army National Guard
The Fort Greene Association received a call on July 19, 2007 from the Army National Guard. It turns out that the Guard was surprised to find out that they owned Admiral’s Row in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That discovery has set back the transfer of the property to the city and the Brooklyn Navy Yard [...]
January 2006 Fort Greene a Real Melting Pot
NYpress.com Fort Greene A Real Melting Pot January 18, 2006 Nicole Davis Brooklyn There is a house that grows in Brooklyn. Called Broken Angel, the geometry-defying urban castle, decorated with found flourishes like shards of glass and cement blocks, rises from a cul-de-sac on the edge of Clinton Hill. “Everyone who sees Broken Angel thinks [...]
