Fort Greene Dreams is about a man named Nelson George. Nelson is a music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker who is moving to an area in Brooklyn known as Fort Greene. He lived in Fort Greene on 19 Willoughby Avenue from 1985 to 1992. The seven years Nelson spent in Fort Greene were the important years of his life in regards to his success in the areas of music, film, writing, and sex. While Nelson lived in 19 Willoughby Avenue, he learned much about himself. He learned what kind of writer, what kind of lover, and what kind of son he was. He also found himself to be a mentor and teacher to several aspiring artists. Over time, Nelson began to assist more and more with mentoring younger artists. This role defined Nelson’s life and self-image. During his time in Fort Greene, Nelson observed many of the artists there. He took note of their struggles and drew valuable life lessons from them to apply to himself. The most important lesson he learned was to measure himself by his body of work, and not by sudden success or failure. Nelson ended the passage by saying that his goal is to achieve long-lasting excellence by living a full, active life and being productive.

In Fort Greene Dreams, Nelson George looks back on how his life played out. He begins his story by telling us he started living in an apartment located in Jamaica, Queens then moved to Fort Greene in 1985. He grew up around Fort Greene because of shopping with his mom and had heard about the bad areas and gangs that used to inhabit Fort Greene but he says it was easy to love. He gave a good amount of detail describing his apartment which he loved because he was tired of living in beatdown apartments. George was able to afford this because of a quick bio he wrote on the pop king Michael Jackson which became a best seller, one of his first real sucesses that gave him a great deal of money. In this apartment he wrote 5 books, including his breakthrough work, The Death of Rhythm and Blues. He also invested in movies including She’s Gotta Have It while writing and producing screenplays. Being in this new empty apartment it filled him with ambition due to all the inspiring talent that he could critique. He seemed to be living in an area surrounded by iconic people and this was all on his way to get something to eat. George worked in his apartment and dispite how bad of a reputation Fort Greene had he had never ran into any trouble except getting robbed which had been his own fault, this place had been a rebirth because he found himself in a new way. He learned what kind of writer, lover, and son he was and where mentoring, criticism, and producing overlapped in the process of living in Fort Greene.

Fort greene is a anecdote. It is written by Nelson george who talks about his life change. A change where he moved from Queens to Brooklyn for a complete new life. He tells the audience by sharing his experiences during this time. It was a big turning point in his life. Moving from a busy crowded county to a place where he was actually spend a little time during his childhood. He lived in an apartment which he did not actually like but the wonderful experiences he use to get from there were very crucial in his life. He use to live around famous artist, writers, filmmakers and all others who were famous in those late 1800. By spending time and sharing the thoughts with those people gave him an inspiration that he has the talent in himself too. Even in the writing it said ““My dream was to write a bookshelf of volumes, so many that one day I might drown in them, paper and ink suffocating me in an ocean of my own thoughts.” This deep thought shows that he was a hard worker and passionate. At the same time he saw people around who gave up in life just because they were not able to achieve success. Instead his philosophy was like his mom which was to help out those people and lead them to the path of success by giving them motivational ideas. His theory was that he wanted to have a full active life and to be productive.  In the end he was satisfied with the decision he took in his life.