Fort Greene

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Fort Greene stretches from the Brooklyn Navy Yard south to Atlantic Avenue, between Flatbush Avenue Extension and Vanderbilt Avenue.

  • 0.63 square miles
  • 32,938 residents, 2020 Census
  • 118 street corners
  • 5 subway stations
  • 14 bus routes

It is named for a Revolutionary War fort that General Nathanael Greene had built on its high ground in 1776; the site was set aside as Washington Park in 1847, took the name Fort Greene Park in 1897 and gained the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in 1908. Italianate, Neo-Grec and Queen Anne rowhouses built from 1855 to 1875 fill the Fort Greene Historic District, designated in 1978, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music has stood in the neighborhood since 1908.

Sources: Fort Greene Park (NYC Parks); Fort Greene Historic District (Historic Districts Council); Fort Greene, Brooklyn (Wikipedia).

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Fort Greene borders five areas, and Fulton Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 15 of 118.

Street map of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, outlined among Clinton Hill, Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Navy Yard and Park Slope, with its five subway stations and Fort Greene Park.Brooklyn Navy YardClinton HillPark SlopeProspect HeightsDowntown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill
  • Fort Greene
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • DeKalb Av lines B Q R accessible
  • Nevins St lines 2 3 4 5
  • Fulton St lines G
  • Lafayette Av lines C
  • Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr lines 2 3 4 5 B Q accessible

Getting around

Five subway stations and buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of Fort Greene.

  • 5 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 14 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B25
  • B26
  • B38
  • B41
  • B45
  • B52
  • B54
  • B57
  • B62
  • B67
  • B69
  • B93
  • B116
  • T440

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,517 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 12.9 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 11 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 45 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
29
Accessible pedestrian signals
16
Turn calming
7
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
6
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Enhanced crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 1,624 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 26,963 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 156 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners
Most red-light tickets
Atlantic Avenue & Fort Greene Place, 1,624
Most speed tickets
Atlantic Avenue & Clermont Avenue, 10,502
Most bus-lane tickets
Fulton Street & St Felix Street, 87

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 32,938 residents in Fort Greene, about 52,300 per square mile.

  • 16,146 homes, 2020 Census
  • 7,754 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,772 residential lots hold buildings from 1899 or earlier, and 80% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Atlantic Terminal Site 4B, Whitman and Ingersoll developments lie wholly or partly within Fort Greene.

Atlantic Terminal Site 4B
Within Fort Greene
Whitman
Within Fort Greene
Ingersoll
Partly within Fort Greene

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
49.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Fort Greene Park (30.2 acres), Commodore Barry Park (10.1 acres) and Albert L. Parham Playground (1.3 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Hanson Place Baptist Church and the Paul Robeson Theatre
Historic districts
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Fort Greene and Wallabout, wholly or partly within Fort Greene

Streets and trees

Trees
3,234 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and maidenhair tree
Street with the most corners
Fulton Street, with 15 of the area's 118
Height above sea level
From 10 feet at Navy Street & Concord Street to 87 feet at Lafayette Avenue & Adelphi Street
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 15 schools and two libraries in Fort Greene.

Public schools
9
Charter and private schools
6
Libraries
Library for Arts & Culture and Walt Whitman Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 23 bike-share stations stand in Fort Greene. The City's public art inventory lists two works in the area: Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (1908) and Commodore John Barry (1996).

  • 23 bike-share stations
  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 378 major felonies at places in Fort Greene.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Fort Greene

  • 410 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,533 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Fort Greene, the NYPD recorded another 301 major felonies.

Police precincts
88th (most of the area), 78th, 84th
Major felonies recorded at places in Fort Greene, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 157 major felonies at places in Fort Greene, against 201 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.