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Fort Greene Park is a city-owned and -operated park in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The park was named after the fort which was formerly located there, originally named Fort Putnam, and then renamed Fort Greene in 1812 for Nathanael Greene, a hero of the American Revolutionary War.〔, pp.29-32〕 Across the street from the DeKalb Avenue entrance at Ft. Greene Place is Brooklyn Technical High School. To the west is the oldest hospital in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Hospital Center. North of the park are the Walt Whitman Houses, one of the largest housing projects in New York City. ==History and description== The park includes part of the high ground where the Continental Army built fortifications prior to the Battle of Long Island, during the early days of the American Revolutionary War. The site was chosen and construction supervised by General Nathanael Greene; it was named Fort Putnam. During the War of 1812, when the possibility of a British invasion led to the re-use of the site for defense, the newly rebuilt fortification was named Fort Greene in his honor. After the fort's military use had waned, poet Walt Whitman, then the editor of the ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'', was a strong advocate of reclaiming the space for use as a public park.〔Schuyler, D. 1986. ''The New Urban Landscape: The redefinition of city form in nineteenth-century America''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 67.〕 The City of Brooklyn had, by 1842, bought property around the fort from the Cowenhoven family, and in 1847 created what was then called Washington Park, Brooklyn's second park,〔 afternot Commodore Barry Park. In 1896, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who also designed Central Park and Prospect Park, prepared a plan for the redesign of the park, whose name was changed to Fort Greene Park.〔 In 2015, a statue of the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was briefly illicitly erected in the park before being taken down by park officials the same day.〔http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/06/edward-snowden-statue-bust-brooklyn-park-covered〕 The next day, it was replaced by a projected hologram.〔Fishbein, Rebecca. ("Illicit Edward Snowden Statue Replaced By Illicit Edward Snowden Hologram" ) ''Gothamist'' (April 7, 2015)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fort Greene Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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