This Saturday, May 30: Join Fort Greene Park Visitors Center’s Grand Reopening Open House!

Heather Chin -
Photo courtesy of Fort Greene Park Conservancy.

Come one, come all, to the grand reopening open house for the Fort Greene Park Visitors Center!

The festivities will take place this Saturday, May 30 inside Fort Greene Park at the newly reopened Visitors Center and Museum, which features information about the park’s cultural, natural, and architectural history. Did you know Fort Greene Park was designed by Central Park architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux? Did you know it has a museum with artifacts and exhibits about the park’s significance in the American Revolution? Either way, come by for a refresher or introductory course!

In addition to being a resource hub, the Center is also a permanent station for NYC Parks’ Urban Park Rangers — such as new arrival Chris Wood! — and a community gathering space for environmental education and outdoor programming in Fort Greene Park.

Here’s your Saturday itinerary of tours, service projects, games, and meet-and-greets with new Park Director David Barker and Urban Park Ranger Chris Wood.

  1. 9:00 a.m. — Meet Fort Greene PUPs at the visitor center for a park cleanup day, picking up trash and poop, filling holes left by dog-digging, and installing trash dispensers.
  2. 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. — New York Cares Volunteer Planting Day-Plant perennials to shore up the park’s hillsides and entrances. Sign up here.
  3. 10:00 a.m. — Join Parks Director David Barker for the Visitor Center Open House, where you can learn the history of the park.
  4. 11:00 a.m. — Wallabout Neighborhood Historic Tour in partnership with MARP, Please register through Eventbrite.
  5. 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. — Fort Greene Park nature hike with the Urban Park Rangers
  6. 12:00-1:00 p.m. — Colonial-era game with the Urban Park Rangers
  7. 1:00-2:30 p.m. — Historic New York Park Tour with the Urban Park Rangers.

According to Barker, Fort Greene Park has “a sense of history as well as the diversity of activities that take place within such a small area. The park can be your gym, play area, place for reflection, bbq area, or produce market to name a few of its functions. It feels like the center of the neighborhood’s civic life on a busy summer afternoon.”

What’s your favorite thing about the Park?