The Fort Greene Park District, the area around Myrtle Avenue and Cumberland Street was a slik stocking district in the 1890′s. Clinton Avenue was then a fashionable address. Most of the old residences are still standing, but have been converted in recent years into rooming houses and furnished apartments. At the southern end of the neighborhood are several apartment hotels, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Long Island Railroad station. Close at hand alongAtlantic Avenue are several central freight depots and large reshipping warehouses.
Fort Greene also is known for The Flea-it features hundreds of top vendors of of antique and repurposed furniture, vintage clothing collectible and antiques, as well as new jewelry, art, and crafts by local artisans and designers, plus delicious fresh food.
Check out America’s largest magnet high school- Brooklyn Technical High School- in Fort Greene.
Tryna get there: Take the N, Q, R, 4, or 5 train from Union Square to Atlantic Ave./Pacific Street.
