Explore Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, from neighborhood favorites to unique curated events. Start with the best-known things to do, then check out "What's happening" for upcoming limited events in Crown Heights.
These special events are sourced from the web and social media, then carefully curated based on cool and unique events you might enjoy doing in Crown Heights.
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Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party gathers historical and mythical women around a triangular banquet table at the Brooklyn Museum. You can examine 39 elaborate place settings, each with a hand-painted china plate and an embroidered runner made in response to a particular woman and her period. The installation extends beyond the tabletop: the Heritage Floor carries the names of 999 additional women.
You encounter the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden a little at a time as its paths wind around the water. Inside Brooklyn Botanic Garden, south of the museum, it combines the hill-and-pond tradition with a stroll-garden design that gradually reveals different parts of the landscape. Artificial hills curve around a pond, with an island, a waterfall and carefully placed rocks appearing along the route.
Children can take a small shopping cart through the kosher grocery exhibit at the Jewish Children's Museum, farther east on Eastern Parkway. If you're visiting with kids, the working scales and checkout scanner give them familiar tasks to try while exploring Jewish daily life. In the kosher kitchen, they sort dishes into designated cupboards, encounter a talking refrigerator and set a table for Shabbat dinner.
Your children can become bakers, grocers or shopkeepers in World Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, northwest of the Jewish Children's Museum. Its child-sized shops draw on actual borough businesses, with objects and stories from Brooklyn communities woven into the pretend play. Children can also take on the roles of designer, performer and builder.
The Johnson and Williams families' homes bring you into the domestic history preserved at Weeksville Heritage Center, farther east on Buffalo Avenue. Guided visits through the surviving Hunterfly Road houses explore an independent free Black landowning community founded in 1838. The 1860s house contains furniture and artifacts from the Civil War era, when Weeksville was an agrarian village and sheltered African Americans fleeing Manhattan's 1863 Draft Riots.
Find upcoming street fairs, performances and other unique events in Crown Heights.
5 things worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
 Movie Under the Stars: Michael (2026) | Fri, Oct 16 | Lincoln Terrace Park (in Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park), Lincoln Terrace / ArthuCrown Heights · Brooklyn | 7:00 pm |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
 Wellness For The People Presents: The Festival | Sat, Oct 17 | Audubon Center at the Boathouse (in Prospect Park), Prospect ParkCrown Heights · Brooklyn | 8:30 am |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
 Santa Land 7th Annual Community Parade | Sun, Oct 18 | Permit areaWashington Avenue, Atlantic Avenue to Dean Street, Brooklyn, NYProspect Heights · Brooklyn | 12pm-4pm |
 Traditional Irish Music | Sun, Oct 18 | The Canary, Crown HeightsCrown Heights · Brooklyn | Sundays 8-11pmPrice not listed |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trivia Night | Mon, Oct 19 | The Canary, Crown HeightsCrown Heights · Brooklyn | Mondays 7-9pmPrice not listed |
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Watch Michael Jackson's story on screen at an outdoor movie night in Lincoln Terrace Park.
🚇 Sutter Av-Rutland Rd (3) · 6 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 2 places, closest 5 min walk
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Poetry by Joél Leon and a Dance Church finale share a program with collective movement, meditation and community conversation.
🚇 Prospect Park (B Q S) · 4 min walk
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You can hear live traditional Irish music at The Canary’s weekly Sunday program.
🚇 Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College (2 3 4 5) · 2 min walk
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A Santa Land community parade in Brooklyn.
🚇 Clinton-Washington Avs (C) · 4 min walk
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You can test your knowledge at The Canary’s weekly trivia night.
🚇 Franklin Av-Medgar Evers College (2 3 4 5) · 2 min walk
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A Beaux Arts building holding collections that span ancient through modern art, alongside a programme of temporary exhibitions.
4.7★ from 10,330 Google reviews
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A small, well-laid-out zoo where the fixed points of the day are the sea lion training sessions at 11:30am, 2pm and 3:30pm — plan your arrival around one.
4.5★ from 4,427 Google reviews
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The museum is built around exhibits children play in rather than look at: Totally Tots for the youngest, AirMaze, The NEST, Neighborhood Nature and World Brooklyn, which is a street of miniature shops.
4.4★ from 4,147 Google reviews
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Hands-on exhibits covering Jewish history and heritage, plus a mini-golf course.
4.7★ from 1,363 Google reviews
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A small venue pairing cocktails and Italian small plates with nightly live music spanning gypsy jazz, neo-folk and more.
4.7★ from 1,048 Google reviews
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The season decides what you do here: roller skating, pickleball and boating in summer, ice skating and ice hockey in winter.
4.1★ from 1,019 Google reviews
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Weeksville is a historic site in Central Brooklyn built around one of the nation's largest free Black communities.
4.7★ from 455 Google reviews
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These are guided walks around Manhattan neighbourhoods in groups of no more than eight, with several routes to choose between.
4.9★ from 382 Google reviews
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A garden laid out in the Japanese style, planted with cherry trees, maples and other traditional species.
4.8★ from 283 Google reviews
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You take a pole dancing class, leveled from Intro to Level 1 up through Level 2, Pole Flow and Advanced Poleography, with spinning-pole, heels ('pole pleasers') and burlesque classes in the mix.
4.8★ from 227 Google reviews
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A 1907 Carnegie library that has kept its original fireplaces, oak paneling, alcoves and wooden benches, so the building itself is worth walking into.
4.3★ from 154 Google reviews
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Racks of second-hand vinyl to dig through, weighted toward rock, reggae and soul.
4.8★ from 146 Google reviews
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A wellness spa near Prospect Park with saunas, steam rooms and cold plunges, plus massages and facials.
4.5★ from 131 Google reviews
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Cherry Esplanade sits inside Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which runs summer family programs for exploring the garden with children.
4.6★ from 124 Google reviews
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The rose garden sits inside Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which runs summer family programs for exploring the grounds with children.
4.7★ from 121 Google reviews
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This is an 18th-century Flatbush farmhouse inside Prospect Park, moved to the park in 1918.
4.5★ from 119 Google reviews
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A sewing boutique that handles alterations and tailoring.
5★ from 101 Google reviews
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An independent Brooklyn bookstore specialising in fantasy and science fiction, with a children's and young adult section alongside the adult shelves.
4.9★ from 93 Google reviews
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A pottery studio with locations in Prospect Heights and in Tribeca.
4.2★ from 68 Google reviews
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This is Terrain, the shop at the Steinberg Visitor Center entrance on Washington Avenue, selling plants, planters, seasonal decor and gifts — it is a store rather than part of the Garden itself.
4.6★ from 65 Google reviews
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5★ from 65 Google reviews
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4.8★ from 60 Google reviews
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A pickleball club where you can join a league, drop in for open play, or book a court.
5★ from 37 Google reviews
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5★ from 32 Google reviews
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These Crown Heights spots give you a choice between Jamaican dishes and a Haitian fusion café with plant-based options.
Two Crown Heights bars offer outdoor space, with a larger beer garden at one and a planted backyard at the other.
For time among books, you can browse a feminist bookstore with coffee or visit a library branch geared toward children and families.
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