Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Fort Greene
Neighborhood of Brooklyn
Historic building at 144 South Oxford Street
Country	United States
State	New York
City	New York City
Borough	Brooklyn
Named for	A fort named after Nathanael Greene
Population (2010)
• Total	15,903
Ethnicity
• White	14.5%
• Black	55.1%
• Hispanic	20.0%
• Asian	5.8%
• Other	7.6%
Economics
• Median income	$57,815
ZIP Codes	11238, 11201, 11205, 11217
Area code(s)	718, 347, 917

Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Part of Brooklyn Community Board 2 and served by the New York City Police Department's 88th Precinct, Fort Greene is listed on the New York State Registry and on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a New York City–designated Historic District. It is located in northwest Brooklyn in the area known as South Brooklyn, just across from Lower Manhattan and north of Prospect Park.

The neighborhood is named after an American Revolutionary War era fort that was built in 1776 under the supervision of General Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island. General Greene aided General George Washington during the Battle of Long Island in 1776. Fort Greene Park, originally called "Washington Park" and Brooklyn's first, is also derived from General Greene's name and from the neighborhood. In 1864, Fort Greene Park was redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux; the park notably includes the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument and crypt, which honors some 11,500 patriots who died aboard British prison ships during the American Revolution.