My Fort Greene, Time is Swift and Time is Mean: A Story of Gentrification

Fort Greene Park at sunset is a beautiful place.

Then again, so is it beautiful during the day, now as it was a hundred years ago.

There is so much history in this storied Brooklyn neighborhood, which was my home many years (no, decades) ago.

Much of that history, as a majority of caring Brooklynites know, involved African Americans.

But the once very significant African American presence is diminishing these recent years, pushed by the gentrification that has so changed the social and business landscape of the community.

Herewith, in that vein, we offer a little video.

Below, check out previous BrooklynRon posts on Fort Greene:

"BAMboozled" and "A Slap in the Face of History."