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The park c. 1904 The Prison Ship Martyr's Monument The park's information center. Fort Greene Park is a city-owned and -operated park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.The 30.2-acre (12.2 ha) park was originally named after the fort formerly located there, Fort Putnam, itself was named for Rufus Putnam, George Washington's chief of engineers in the Revolutionary War.
Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The neighborhood is bounded by Flushing Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the north, Flatbush Avenue Extension and Downtown Brooklyn to the west, Atlantic Avenue and Prospect Heights to the south, and Vanderbilt Avenue and Clinton Hill to the east.
It includes the 33-acre Fort Greene Park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1868. In the park is a column memorializing Revolutionary War soldiers (Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument) that was designed by McKim, Mead, and White and erected in 1908. The park was built on the site of fortifications built in 1776 and 1814. [2]
Program for the dedication ceremonies, November 14, 1908. The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument is a war memorial at Fort Greene Park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It commemorates more than 11,500 American prisoners of war who died in captivity aboard sixteen British prison ships during the American Revolutionary War. [1]
Commodore Barry Park is an urban park in the Fort Greene neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The park is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. It encompasses an area of 10.39 acres (42,000 m 2) and holds baseball, basketball, football, swimming pool and playground fields/facilities. [1]
Fort Greene is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Fort Greene may also refer to: Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY; Fort Greene Historic District, Brooklyn, NY; Fort Greene (Newport, Rhode Island), a War of 1812 fort; Fort Greene (Narragansett, Rhode Island), WW2 coast defense fort, current Army Reserve center
In the neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, the development of Myrtle Avenue was directly related to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, built in 1801. In 1847 Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn's first park, was built on the south side of western Myrtle Avenue. It was a busy thoroughfare since early on in its existence.
Fiske Terrace - Midwood Park Historic District: March 18, 2008: Fort Greene Historic District: September 26, 1978: Fulton Ferry Historic District: June 28, 1977: Greenpoint Historic District: May 7, 1991: Melrose Parkside Historic District: December 13, 2022: Ocean on the Park Historic District: October 27, 2009