Spike Lee Film Accidentally Reopened Long Closed Fort Greene Park

FORT GREENE, NY — A long-shuttered Fort Greene park turned heads when it quietly reopened this week, but it was just accidentally left unlocked by a Spike Lee film shoot.

Lee used Fort Greene's BAM Park, which has been closed since 2009, as a location for his Netflix show "She's Gotta Have It" earlier this week, but forgot to lock up when he was done spurring rumors that it finally reopened, according to the city and Brownstoner.

On Monday, Brownstoner reported that the park gates were opened to the public and posted photos of residents inside the long-shuttered spot. However, the renovation work to the park is still ongoing and the city closed up after Lee on Wednesday.

"HPD was contacted by a film crew for use of the site," a spokesman for the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which run the park, said in a statement on Wednesday. "Filming ended today and the lot has been secured."

BAM Park, bordered by Fulton Street, Lafayette Avenue and St. Felix Street, first closed in 2009 because it was unsafe for pedestrians and a 2012 study found toxic soil inside, DNAinfo reported.

The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership started plans to revamp the park in 2014, but work was delayed in 2017 when architects told the board cleaning up the soil would kill the trees, the Brooklyn Eagle reported.

However, officials came up with a way to save the park's trees and work's expected to start on the project by the end of the year.

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