Historic Center for Fiction opens new home today in Fort Greene
A nearly 200-year-old New York cultural institution has landed at a new location in Fort Greene.
The Center for Fiction opens today in one of the borough’s richest cultural corridors, adjacent to the Mark Morris Dance Group and kitty-corner from the world-famous BAM.
The center, which is the only organization in the country devoted solely to fiction writing, has operated out of Manhattan since its inception in 1821, when it was founded as a mercantile library. Its new home is at 15 Lafayette Ave., inside a three-story, 17,500-square-foot building with floor-to-ceiling-windows and elevators plastered with pages from old novels.