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Growers and food producers bring locally grown produce and prepared foods to the Fort Greene Park Greenmarket every Saturday, year-round. You can shop for ingredients or browse the prepared-food offerings at the park entrance, with chestnut trees overhead and brownstones around the edge.
The booksellers at Greenlight Bookstore make selections that reach into translated literature, speculative futures, music and culture. You can browse their choices at this independent Fulton Street shop, which opened in 2009, or use its online staff lists to find a title to look for. Those themed lists bring together books by subject and curiosity, reaching beyond the bestseller table.
Artists working in glass take the material from sculpture to objects you can wear or use at UrbanGlass. The Robert Lehman Gallery, part of its Agnes Varis Art Center, presents changing exhibitions of contemporary glass art and design. Alongside the gallery, the store carries jewelry and functional objects made by artists from Brooklyn and farther afield.
Artists from Africa and its diaspora are the focus at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, known as MoCADA. You’ll find its Culture Lab II flagship gallery on the second floor above the plaza at 300 Ashland, south of UrbanGlass. Exhibitions change throughout the year, bringing contemporary art into the museum’s wider work in education and social justice.
International theater makers, dancers, musicians and filmmakers shape the program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, just east of MoCADA. You can end the outing with theater, dance, music, opera or film, depending on the program. BAM’s longstanding Next Wave series emphasizes experimental performance, while DanceAfrica is another enduring part of its artistic identity.
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1 thing worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 JAZZ966 Friday Night Jazz | Fri, Oct 16 | Jazz 966, Fort GreeneFort Greene · Brooklyn | Fridays 8pm & 9:45pm, Sept-JunePrice not listed |
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Listen to jazz at Jazz 966’s Friday night series.
🚇 Clinton-Washington Avs (C) · 4 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 4 places, closest 5 min walk
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A Brooklyn branch of the Alamo Drafthouse chain, screening both current releases and older films.
4.5★ from 7,996 Google reviews
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Your group is shut in a themed room and has 60 minutes to find clues and get out, and each game holds more than one room — another opens when you think you're finished.
5★ from 4,586 Google reviews
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BAM runs a cinema and a set of stages in the same complex, so what you do depends entirely on the day.
4.7★ from 2,612 Google reviews
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Pier 5 is one part of Brooklyn Bridge Park, which runs along the waterfront from John Street and Main Street down past Fulton Ferry Landing to Pier 6.
4.8★ from 2,173 Google reviews
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A music venue at Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues in Downtown Brooklyn.
4.7★ from 1,958 Google reviews
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A neighbourhood movie theatre on Court Street with a mix of family titles and grown-up releases on at once — recent listings included PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, Minions & Monsters and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, alongside a silent-clowns screening of The Gold Rush.
4.2★ from 1,593 Google reviews
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A guided horse-drawn carriage ride through the city, with the driver pointing out landmarks around Times Square, Rockefeller Center and Central Park.
5★ from 1,387 Google reviews
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4.8★ from 1,155 Google reviews
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Browse an independent bookstore whose oversized windows face Fulton Street, with sunlight falling on industrial tables of books and a prominently displayed Staff Picks shelf.
4.7★ from 1,026 Google reviews
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You see a performance in BAM's main hall, a roughly 2,100-seat theater with an orchestra pit in front of the stage.
4.6★ from 799 Google reviews
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A spa with massages, facials and body treatments, plus a sauna.
4★ from 723 Google reviews
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Two front rooms are a bar where you can drink without a ticket, serving cocktails like the Nile Rodgers, a spicy pear-jalapeño margarita.
4.4★ from 603 Google reviews
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A day spa in Clinton Hill.
4.8★ from 341 Google reviews
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A private walking tour for your group alone, led by Adam, covering one to three neighborhoods you pick when you book.
5★ from 316 Google reviews
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Browse two floors of books, with most of the selection in the maze-like stacks upstairs — including a small rare book room of harder-to-find used titles and a separate children's section.
4.7★ from 283 Google reviews
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4.9★ from 278 Google reviews
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You book a golf simulator bay by the hour and up to six people share it — a round of 18 holes takes most golfers 45 minutes to an hour.
4.8★ from 246 Google reviews
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This is a Saturday morning shop outside the entrance to Fort Greene Park, under chestnut trees, with around 25 farm stands selling vegetables, orchard fruit, cut flowers, cheese, breads and pastries, cider, fish and mushrooms.
4.6★ from 245 Google reviews
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This is a working film lab on Marcy Ave, not an activity space.
4.7★ from 231 Google reviews
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Pianos are tuned and restored here.
5★ from 201 Google reviews
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Licensed guides walk small groups through a specific slice of the city's history — the Gilded Age mansions of Fifth Avenue, Grand Central, Coney Island, Bob Dylan's Greenwich Village, the Jane Jacobs–Robert Moses fight over the city, or a Revolutionary-era route through Old New York.
5★ from 171 Google reviews
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A 28,000 sq ft indoor club with tennis and pickleball for both kids and adults.
4.6★ from 162 Google reviews
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A nonprofit glass studio whose classes are open to students of all ages, from introductory classes through master classes for professional artists.
4.7★ from 158 Google reviews
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This is a book-by-the-hour rental studio, not a walk-in venue: you reserve one of six spaces online and let yourself in with a smart-lock code, no staff handoff.
4.7★ from 150 Google reviews
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A skate park inside Golconda Playground at Nassau Street and Gold Street, run by NYC Parks.
4.4★ from 146 Google reviews
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This is a working neighbourhood branch with a Children's Room and a second-floor meeting room where most of the kids' programming happens.
4.1★ from 126 Google reviews
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The garden sits on the grounds of the historic Naval Cemetery, which was transformed into this space ten years ago, and it is part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.
4.7★ from 114 Google reviews
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A Brooklyn museum showing contemporary art, with work engaging the issues and experiences of the African diaspora.
4.5★ from 109 Google reviews
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Private guided walking tours led by a guide, booked for your own group and customisable in size and route.
5★ from 76 Google reviews
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A working repertory and new-release cinema running one programme all year.
4.5★ from 71 Google reviews
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The Dance Center runs a school with classes for children and teens from 18 months to 18 years, split into early childhood classes and children and teen classes, alongside family classes.
4.3★ from 71 Google reviews
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A nonprofit ceramics studio in Bed-Stuy where children take youth classes working in clay, drawing, mixed media and sculpture, with the focus on the process rather than a finished object.
4.4★ from 70 Google reviews
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Brooklyn Ballet is a dance school and company offering ballet lessons for children and adults, with a summer intensive in August.
4.3★ from 64 Google reviews
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A shop that teaches sewing, with classes for both adults and children.
4.8★ from 56 Google reviews
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A live music venue where dancing is part of the night.
4.5★ from 55 Google reviews
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You book a table by the hour and play — check-in is contactless, so there is no counter to queue at, and paddles are provided.
4.6★ from 51 Google reviews
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You walk the 25-acre Brooklyn campus and find more than 70 sculptures set among lawns and older buildings.
4.8★ from 46 Google reviews
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The indoor South Williamsburg branch of Circus Academy (formerly Trapeze School New York), where families book a single day or a full semester.
4.9★ from 44 Google reviews
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Liberty Lawn is one of the lawns at Pier 6 — an open patch of grass for spreading out with a picnic and taking in the sun and the views.
4.9★ from 40 Google reviews
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BAM programmes films, talks and family programs alongside its Next Wave festival of theatre and performance, so what you do depends entirely on what is on that week.
4.9★ from 13 Google reviews
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For a full meal, these neighborhood restaurants offer Mediterranean tapas or dishes built around Latin American cooking and local ingredients.
Families can move together in a dance workshop or watch glassmaking techniques on a short studio tour.
The park has a tree trail for a closer look at its landscape and a central monument tied to Revolutionary War history.
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