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.