Fort Greene dreams tells the story of Nelson George a music culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker seeking to create a bookshelf of volumes and sustained excellence not only for himself, but for others as well. In the beginning Nelson lives in a small apartment in Jamaica Queens that is until he receives a call from Spike, Nelson George then reveals to the audience that he is planning to move to an area known as Fort Greene which is located in Brooklyn, it is there that his life begins to change not only as a person but also as a culture critic, a journalist, and a filmmaker. When Nelson George gets to Brooklyn he begins to notice that the neighborhood he grew up in is not the same as it was back when he was a child, Nelson George also begins to compare Queens to Brooklyn and how are they different from each other. While working with different artist and aspiring artist Nelson George began to learn more about himself, what type of writer he was and thus learning he was kind of a mentor to other minor artists. When Nelson found out that he was kind of a mentor to aspiring artist he began to help then promote themselves in the artistic medium and eventually that is what he keep doing because according to him “achieving sustained excellence is what I preached to others and sought to myself.”