MulchFest 2013 will take place on Saturday and Sunday, January 12th and 13th, from 10am to 2pm. Chip in! Mulch your tree! Help NYC grow.

MulchFest provides New Yorkers an opportunity to bring their holiday trees to designated sites where they are ground into wood chips. The chips can then be placed in tree pits and gardens. Parks & Recreation encourages New Yorkers to help the environment and their community by participating in this event. Our local MulchFest location is Fort Greene Park. Enter Park at the intersection of Washington Park and Willoughby Avenue.

Participants are encouraged to bring bags to take advantage of the free mulch provided.

All lights, ornaments and stands must be taken off holiday trees.

The MulchFest chipper in Fort Greene Park is sponsored by NYC Parks & Recreation in partnership with the Society for Clinton Hill, the Fort Greene Association and The Fort Greene Park Conservancy

Finally "The Stoop" event date has arrived! Due to bad weather, event host FOKUS had to reschedule the event earlier this summer, but it is well worth the wait! For their fifth year in a row, FOKUS brings us "The Stoop", a celebration of art, music and life. The Stoop will feature live performances, DJs, games, activities, interactive arts stations, live art and many prizes! Visit Myrtle Eats Fresh Community Chef Beryl Benbow between 3-5PM and sample her Black Bean and Corn Salsa recipe, yum!

When: October 13, 2012
Where: Fort Greene Park (at N. Portland & Myrtle Avenues)
Time: 1-6pm
Who: folks of all ages!
Cost: FREE

The 8th Annual Fort Greene Park Literary Festival is this Saturday, 8/18! Join young writers ages 7 to 18 from the New York Writer's Coalition summer workshops and acclaimed writers Jessica Hagedorn, Tayari Jones, and Earl Lovelace for an afternoon of readings in Fort Greene Park: This Saturday, August 18th at 3 PM. Free!

This Thursday, August 9th, Rooftop Films is hosting a free showing of Welcome to Pine Hill in Fort Greene Park at Myrtle Avenue Hill (Myrtle and North Portland). Film starts at 8:30 p.m. Check out this an interview with the film's director, Keith Miller, on the The Local.

Fort Greene Park Conservancy's annual summer concert series kicks off tomorrow!

The kickoff music event, Audrarox is especially for the kiddies -- so bring them out!

This Sunday, May 20, at 1:00pm in Fort Greene Park, the “Walt Whitman’s Fort Greene Park and Area” FREE walking tour will be hosted by the Fort Greene Park Conservancy and The Walt Whitman Project. The Walt Whitman Project’s Artistic Director, Greg Trupiano will be leading the walk, which begins at the park’s Visitor’s Center at the top of the hill.

Below is Mr. Trupiano description of the approximately two -hour event:

“Walk around Fort Greene Park, a greensward that owes its existence in large part to Walt Whitman's editorials written for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and learn about this poet's intimate connection with Brooklyn's first official park. The afternoon includes discussions about the park, its role in the American Revolution and Civil War, the Wallabout Martyrs and the monument dedicated to their memory. The event continues with a walk up Myrtle Avenue to 99 Ryerson Street, the last existing building in Brooklyn that was a residence of Walt Whitman.”

After the walk, visitors can continue over to BLDG 92, the incredible new visitor’s center and museum at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (admission is free!) before stopping to grab a bite on Myrtle Avenue.

RSVP for the walking tour is not required, but encouraged. Please email info@fortgreenepark.org if you’d like to make a reservation. Further information can be found by calling 718-391-8824.

Put on those dance shoes for the park we all know and love. It's time for Dance Craze II, the fundraiser for our beloved Fort Greene Park.

Dance Craze II will take place on Thursday, October 20th at Roulette on Atlantic and 3rd Avenue. Eat, Drink and of course...Dance while totally loving on our Park.

Hey, two steps to the right for great children's programming, two steps to the left for tree and other maintenance and care, and throw your hands in the air and boogy down in place because we wouldn't even want to THINK what life would be without it's fabulousness.

Music by bluesman Gary Clark Jr. and DJ Duane Harriott, a plethora of raffle prizes, including a night at the Greenwich Hotel. A free Brownstoner tee for the next fifty people who buy tickets. Fundraiser committee includes Jonathan Ames, Ted Allen, Jennifer Egan, Nelson George and Jonathan Lethem.

Heads up: 'Like' the Fort Greene Park Conservancy's website to stay up to date and for a chance to win prizes.

Click here for information about how to purchase tickets or send monetary contributions.

Recent New York Times article, 'Memorials and the Forgotten' by journalist, Elizabeth Giddens thoughtfully discusses the National 9/11 Memorial and memorials in general by reflecting on the Prison Ship Martyrs/monument and the act of memorializing and remembering.

Here's the article

(pic from nycparks.gov website)

The 88th Precinct and the 88th Precinct Community and Youth Councils are inviting the community to attend the National Night Out Against Crime today, August 2, 2011 from noon to 8 p.m. at Fort Greene Park. Come check out the many informational tables and fun activities!

Myrtle Eats Fresh Community Chef Arnetha Singelton will be serving up her Whole Wheat Vegetable Beef Pasta Salad recipe from 2-4PM on the Dekalb Avenue side of the park. Come by for a taste and the recipe to try at home!

Free Wi-Fi for Fort Greene Park, beginning this summer. This free internet access pilot includes access at 20 NYC parks in all, 4 others in Brooklyn.

Click the News12 Brooklyn link for further information.