We initiate projects and advocacy campaigns to preserve and enhance the park as a vital environmental and cultural resource for the community for generations to come.
This summer, an independent Environmental Assessment Statement for planned capital improvements to Fort Greene Park was completed and released. The Fort Greene Park Conservancy continues to support the capital investments that NYC Parks is making in Fort Greene Park. The independent Environmental Assessment Statement confirms that the planned work will provide numerous benefits to the park and neighborhood, while avoiding any significant adverse impacts.
Based on best care practices for the maintenance and establishment of new lawns, as well in consideration of the feedback that we received through this survey, NYC Parks has decided to make the entire Central Lawn passive and on-leash only through the summer.
On Monday, May 8, City Planning—in coordination with the Mayor’s Office—unveiled the Eds and Meds Planning Framework for Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene, backpedaling on their prior decision—when we petitioned them—to refrain from publishing the document.
Thanks to the 2000+ of you who signed the petition!
UPDATE: The Eds and Meds Planning Framework will not be published!
The Eds and Meds Planning Framework will not be presented to the City Planning Commission on Monday March 27 and will not be published on their website.
Council Member Crystal Hudson agreed with us and all of you that the community must be engaged before any planning document is released. Thanks to Crystal for her leadership in advocating that the voices of the Fort Greene community be heard!
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For decades, Fort Greene Park’s largest lawn was known simply as “the dust bowl.” In 2021, in partnership with NYC Parks, Central Park Conservancy, and Fort Greene PUPS, we launched the Lawn Pilot, an initiative to restore the central lawn so all park users—people and dogs—can continue to enjoy this area of the park for active and passive use for years to come.
