FEATURED EVENTS

Get ready to listen to soulful sounds at the park! The Fort Greene Park Jazz Festival began in July 2010, when musician Eric Frazier realized his long-standing dream to have a jazz festival in his own neighborhood park. It provides live jazz entertainment for families, neighborhoods, communities, and New Yorkers twice annually, typically in July and September each year. The Fort Greene neighborhood has housed a multitude of great Jazz Musicians including Max Roach, Randy Weston, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Betty Carter, Gary Bartz, Cecil Taylor, Bill Lee, Slide Hampton, Toshi Reagon, and Carla Cook. It is the home of many of today's greats and tomorrow’s future legends!

Step aboard the famed Redbird subway cars, in service from 1959 through 2003, for a special round-trip excursion. This ride starts and ends at the historic Old South Ferry station, opened in 1905 and closed to the public since 2017. Before the ride, take photos of the vintage train on the platform and check out station details like original mosaics and terracotta artwork. The 90-100-minute ride will go up to the Bronx, travel through a train yard for a special behind-the-scenes view before heading back downtown to Old South Ferry station.