A Look at Fort Greene, Brooklyn | Block by Block | The New York Times

[@raulcampos-marquetti4389]

Unfortunately this is not a real block by block review of Fort Greene where I grew up. It is a "block by block review of Fort Green south and East of Fort Greene Park. They have completely left out the areas north of Fort Greene Park which includes Fort Greene Projects where over 100,000 people live in substandard NY Public Housing. You forgot the people in the hood....... what is up with that??????

[@jmoney7922]

Raul Campos-Marquetti It's funny because back in the 80s white people wouldn't even step foot into Brooklyn they were throwing people off roof ,But now they building Starbucks and red roosters making it a hippie community

[@romeysiamese6712]

Or just priced middle class families out....

[@katlin.christopher]

You all misunderstood the title of the video. They did not go block by block in this neighborhood. It's a series called Block by Block. And today it focuses on Fort Greene. They cant go to each block in each neighborhood in the city.

[@ابو_اسد_الخير]

Ok let me put it this way .. Look at Switzerland .or London .do you hear them take about some part of London to help get more tourism or to get more businesses man .. Ya I know you are right but they will not show what really ppl need to know you have to do it yourself

[@edddmund]

They definitely mentioned the projects.

[@Model_Roe]

I love Brooklyn!!!!!!!! I'd love to live there

[@Michael-qe3bk]

I lived in Fort Greene for 22 years love it brooklyn in the summer and winter

[@edseavervinuesa-mz6gi]

Born and raised in Brooklyn Heights , 1962. My uncle made his fortune in Fort Greene. Purchased over 25 Brown Stones like hot cakes!

[@anotherview9604]

The Brooklyn Dodgers would have had a ball park on top of the Atlantic Yards (fancy name for a railroad yard) but Robert Moses said that he had pans to use the land for something else. After several negotiations failed, the Dodgers went to LA and nothing was done with the air rights over the yards until the Barclay Center was built.

[@Bendiciones247]

I like the old fort green mom & pop stores it’s too commercial now.

[@michellesamuels7558]

I went to Brooklyn Tech. There were rich and middle class black, and white, families. I miss BAM. And, my apartment block on State Street.

[@Cyber_Diva]

This is my community and this is a horrible, simplistic, white-washed reflection of the beautiful community even when one factors in gentrification. I guess the New York Times wanted to do Corcoran (and other real estate sales interests) a favor with this marketing video.

[@itsokitsok5020]

I am black and much older than you. This is what the neighborhood look like pretty much in the Forties and fifties, It change only because New York State fell on hard economical times in the sixties and seventies, And let's not forget the drug epidemic of the eighties and nineties. And now is coming full circle, My suggestion is that people who been there for decades and own a home, Stop selling your property and invest in it selling your property, My parents lived in bushwick, What the house back in the sixties never sold it, Reinvest in that house in now is worth one and a 1/2 million dollars, When all they paid for it was $17000 Over 20 year mortgage

[@christianbrother4724]

white washed- not very politically correct!

[@Lika.aliyah_]

Facts. I am born raised and still live here. This is bs 😂😂😂

[@TheRenegade718]

@@itsokitsok5020 How do you know how old this person is commenting? I will say you are totally right about blacks who own homes sold most of their property, but there are many who homes was stolen from them through sneaky tactics. Plus major Red lining throughout the years. Simplest way to put it a lot of BS went down amongst the land.

[@Twinflame_4]

Fort Greene is definitely my favorite neighborhood

[@Devotee777]

Lived here years ago...miss it very much...of course got priced out!

[@fatimac.middleton8454]

We belong together.

[@mayena]

According to Wikipedia Barclay's Center is in Prospect Heights.

[@downeastboy84]

The subway info was almost right except for Lafayette Avenue that station is a local stop so the a does not usually stop at Lafayette. But the c does

[@pikminlord343]

seems pretty cool. But the price of housing seems high

[@billymcnutt116]

I learned about Fort Greene and Brooklyn from watching Ghostwriter.

[@dcbfan1231]

Me too, that’s why I’m here.

[@WordUp2That]

I saw a " Crown Fried Chicken " I have to check out Fort Greene Brooklyn, New York!

[@DaniTheAlchemist33]

The best! They stay open till about 4am, good for after bar nights

[@30seven4]

I'm opening the Museum of Museums of Contemporary Pretentious Mediocrities Leveraging Undeserved Guilt into Cultural Respect (MoMCPMLUGiCR). If anyone wants to come see it, let me know.

[@Debonairfox]

My teeth are bleeding

[@AB-fm2zn]

Wow! Fort Green and vinegar hill were Italians moons ago

[@michellemarie1197]

Buses are actually better and cleaner than the subway

[@YFNYC]

Barclay center is not in fort Greene

[@normanbrown9225]

I love Ft Greene Park, before Dark, too many shadows & not always ur own.

[@nycgotham]

Fort Greene has some of the most beautiful Blocks in NYC. Housing is worth that and more. I enjoy walking about and see the Juxtaposition of the old and new architecture, If I could take the eateries in Upper Ditmars Astoria area I can up the value 25% to their coops / Condos sales or rentals within a summer season. I think that Ft Greene has delicious coffee houses, honestly , but that's where it ends where the gastronomia ends in my opinion.. Ft Greene lacks the white cloth restaurants (without the Manhattan prices) that you honesty deserve. The Argentinian / Italian eateries, the Indian and Greek eateries. You need a Don Coquis (City Island) and a Tequila Sunrise (Bayside) not to mention a Crabtrees (Floral Park), Cabana (Forest Hills), a Tao or a Shi (Uptown and LIC) and a Taverna Kyclades or a Trattoria L’incontro. When Fort Greene does this, it will become the Center of our New NYC!

[@mooreryo]

Where the soul food at? These are all white cultural offerings it needs more soul

[@kfighterkfighterTBTR]

And who are these people speaking about FG? MY FAMILY LIVED IN for generations and I can tell NONE of these folks were born there! GENTRIFIERS😡

[@ES-wv2ui]

I consider Fort Green as part of Downtown Brooklyn.

[@nellymorales3722]

I live there wth 😭❤️

[@dalliswhite4051]

it's this black young guy in fort green. he's so handsome but it's seems like he's hurt so bad,like he seems like he not himself....(I've been living there for years an he has too) I'm jus saying this cuz he was doing so good till people started talking bad about him. don't worry you are better then those who hate on u, your God son so do Gods work.

[@sbn415xoxo]

Dallis White What guy are you talking about?

[@sammyver9]

Another great video, as usual.

[@ciel222]

New York times I hope you 'll do a video for Jamaica Queens

[@DaniTheAlchemist33]

Merrick and 107ave

[@TBone2000Man]

hipster music all for the rich now

[@brindisi2brooklyn]

These people ruined my neighborhood and priced most previous residents out. I can’t afford it anymore. And none of my favorite neighborhood spots exist. Gentrification is caused by very selfish people.

[@TheBohemiansoul]

Pathmark supermarket

[@damaristorrente1034]

VOY A VISITAR BROOKLYN. SE VE NICE ESA AREA JS

[@unfabulouslyfabulous]

This is a nightmare

[@xmuta]

Indeed. Whites are pushing minorities out.

[@gracecheri997]

I am very sad to see where my childhood took place l played in Fort Greene Park My sister and l posed by the eagle and cannon in the park. Five blocks of brownstones were torn down by eminent domain. Blocks of low and high income middle class whites we're displaced. Political deals and corruption were the driving elements. Gentrification was the mantra. Believe me it wasn't " white flight " we were driven out.

[@gracecheri997]

The political deal was to "Condemn" a building to take it. It was originally a white neighborhood 30's 40's 50's 60's and African-Americans came in the 50's. We had great harmony then we were all displaced.

[@daedaetinez6406]

Yes but how is the Sewer System????

[@politicaljester1454]

Home of Dana Dane

[@badlaamaurukehu]

The Projects.

[@michaelhill2278]

CALLING ALL DEMOCRATS! VOTE FOR RENEE COLLYMORE FOR STATE COMMITTEE TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2016 (less than 30 days away to vote for Renee) The 57th Assembly District, representing the communities of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights and parts of Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and Park Slope.

[@kiranholt3296]

I lived on South Oxford and Lafayette. It was such a cool, calm, beautiful neighborhood. Spike Lee had his Joint on Dekalb, but It was a very residential and quiet place. Fort Greene Park was where one could spend an afternoon reading on one of the park benches,. It was where ppl excised. It was where sometimes movies were filmed and hip hop concerts were performed. A lot of celebrities lived in Fort Greene the time I was there. Regentification changed the vibe, the coolness, the neighborhood residential atmosphere and the quietness, 180°. Sidewalk eateries, bars, Fort Greene Park became a dog Park and a Farmer's market, super heavy traffic and ppl flooded the neighborhood to hang out to drink and party thru the night. The reason I loved Fort Greene and lived there for so long was GONE. I was so devestated so I moved to Harlem.

[@SnowDog0]

Whitman ingersoll houses represent

[@ovauskhan8119]

cachet of the fort green.... make you preen.

[@rayhall6520]

This is not the Fort Greene I know 😂 what a joke !!!

[@lufrontotv6929]

this is not fort greene wtf is this this is the OTHER SIDE OF THE PARK

[@salsared01]

What about the gangs?

[@salsared01]

The Mau Maus, Bishop’s, Capellanes, etc etc

[@cellbiologyshorts9105]

Gentrification

[@the-chameleon]

Fort freak show

[@diegodesigns3976]

Hmm...I smell *gentrification*