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Come Support Your Local Fort Greene Greenmarket!
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Fresh from local Farmers!
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Fresh Seafood
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Apples & cider
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Free range turkey, chicken, beef, pork, and bacon
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Plants, herbs, salad greens and flowers
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Milk, yogurt, honey, and butter
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Bread, pastries, and other baked goods
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Mushrooms, seasonal fruits and vegetables
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Every Saturday,
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8 am - 5 pm
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Arts and Artist Information
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Natasha Harsh - homepage of Fort Greene's premier naturalist painter.
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Ragnar Naess - Pottery designer and sculptor.
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Holly Ellis - Ellis Designs - Handcrafted art to wear.
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| Laurie Olefson - Custom jewelry and other works of art. |
| Joan Huggard - Local NYC designer whose work reflects the city she lives in, creating stained glass artworks, pendants, mirrors, and other pieces. |
| Angeline Roth - Custom quilts and quilted items handmade in Brooklyn. |
| Karenina Jewelry - Artist Marianna Trofimova creates one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art. |
| Kristen Benson - Fort Greene-based designer and artist, who creates ant farm sculptures, jewelry and other works. |
| Catherine Crowe - Celtic Enamelled Jewelry and other works inspired by archaeology, anthropology and philosophy |
| Studio Gruss - Local studio creating "Spiritual Art and Design." |
| Linda Brady - Clothing designer and founder of the Tiki clothing line. |
| 651 ARTS - the artist's collective located in Fort Greene. |
| Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) - an arts service organization dedicated to helping artists, arts organizations, and community groups promote and sustain the arts. |
| Dumbo Arts Center - a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and enriching the identity of D.U.M.B.O. as an artists' community. |
| South Of the Navy Yard Artists, Inc. (SONYA) - community includes visual artists whose homes, studios or galleries are located within the areas of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. |
| Underbridge Pictures - Gallery featuring photography and painting, located in DUMBO, founded by photogtrapher David Sokosh. |
| Robert Goldstrom - Clinton Hill-based painter and illustrator. |
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Fort Greene Information
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| Fort Greene Association- the website of the Fort Greene Association. |
| Fort Greene Park Conservancy - the website for Fort Greene Park and the Conservancy. Learn more about the park and the restoration efforts. |
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Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership - guide to the "new" Myrtle Avenue, with its mix of restaurants, shops and services.
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| FortGreeneBrooklyn.com - a great new directory to Fort Greene, featuring up-to-the-minute news headlines, music, artists, directory listings, events, and more... |
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Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) - find out what's happening in Fort Greene's world renown cultural center.
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| Downtown Brooklyn Partnership - Learn more about the DBP and the plans for the BAM Cultural District and Downtown Brooklyn. |
| The South Oxford Street Block Association - website of the South Oxford Street Block Association, offering a mixture of local news, editorial content and images. |
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General Brooklyn Information
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BrooklynX.org - Brooklyn's mega-website, offering a community and events calendar and the official Brooklyn Tourism Council webpages. Maintained by BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture.
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| Brooklyn Record - great news blog with a great Fort Greene section, featuring many other Brooklyn neighborhoods, published by Brownstoner media. |
| Clinton Hill Blog- new blog with observations from Clinton Hill, and Fort Greene, the Navy Yard and Wallabout. |
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Brooklyn.com - the main Brooklyn portal.
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| Fort Greene PUPS - the website of the Fort Greene Park Users and Pets Society (P.U.P.S.) -- a collective of responsible dog owners who regularly use Fort Greene Park. |
| onNYturf - Political and Community Coverage of NYC's 5 Boroughs |
| Brownstoner.com - great local Brooklyn website dedicated to "an unhealthy obsession with historic Brooklyn brownstones and the neighborhoods and lifestyles they define." |
| Curbed - a smart real estate-based website with the motto: "In New York City, it comes back to real estate, rent and the neighborhoods we inhabit." |
| The Gowanus Lounge - "Musings and photos about life and real estate development in post-industrial Brooklyn and New York City." |
| Brooklyn-USA.org - The official website of Marty Markowitz, the flamboyant Brooklyn Borough President |
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The Brooklyn Museum of Art - get the latest news about Brooklyn's "sensational" art museum.
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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Prospect Park's venerable botanical institution.
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| Hello Brooklyn - Your guide to Brooklyn events, real estate, bars, family, hotels, movie times, music, nightclubs, restaurants, sports, fitness, recreation, links, and more! |
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Small Town Brooklyn - great local site dedicated to the neighborhoods between the Brooklyn Bridge & Prospect Park.
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Coney Island - the official website of Coney Island USA.
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Celebrate Brooklyn - The BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture's official website.
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GO BROOKLYN - The Brooklyn Paper's essential guide to the Borough of Kings.
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| Atlantic Yards News and Information: |
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| Develop–Don't Destroy Brooklyn - local grassroots organization uniting community groups and individuals against Bruce Ratner's proposed Atlantic Yards development. |
| Atlantic Yards Report - a great blog by star reporter Norman Oder which analyzes all the coverage of the Atlantic Yards project from nearly every angle and also provides his own reporting. The best Atlantic Yards informational website. |
| noLandGrab.org - great website/blog with insightful reporting on the battle over the proposed Atlantic Yards Development and other local issues. |
| Brooklyn Papers - the website for the Brooklyn Papers, who publish award-winning weekly newspapers that feature hard-hitting news, local coverage. and unmatched arts and entertainment reporting. |
| Brooklyn Matters - the offical website for the independent documentary film "Brooklyn matters" by Isabel Hill. The film covers the events leading up to the approval of the Atlantic yards project by the ESDC in December 2006. A must-see documentary. |
| Council for Brooklyn Neighborhoods - CBN is a non-partisan coalition of community organizations who want to insure that any development truly benefits all the communities of Brooklyn. |
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A sampling of works by participating artisans and links to their websites:
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Ragnar Naess –
pottery
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Kevin Barry -
Crochet Jackets
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Catherine Crowe-
Celtic Enamelled Jewelry
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Laurie Olefson
Jewelry Design
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Holly Ellis -
Art to wear
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Kristen Benson
Jewelry Design
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Angeline Roth
Quilts
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Cheryl Brock -
drawings
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Valerie Williams -
SEM Photography
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Joan Huggard –
Blue sconce
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Karenina Jewelry -
Handcrafted jewelry
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Dawn Marie Dillon-
BreathlessBeauty.net
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