Fort Greene Park was Walt Whitman’s campaign — he editorialized it into existence — and Olmsted and Vaux terraced its hill under oaks that now crown the monument plaza. The surrounding grid (South Portland, South Oxford, Clermont) holds a brownstone-and-plane-tree canopy as complete as Park Slope’s, with a Saturday greenmarket at the park’s corner as the anchor.
These picks run the park’s shaded stairs, the finest single block (South Portland), and the DeKalb Avenue café line.