Explore Brooklyn’s Park Slope, 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 Park Slope.
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 Park Slope.
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Prospect Park West, Flatbush Ave
Shop the Saturday Greenmarket
Regional producers bring bread, orchard fruit, goat cheese and seafood to Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket every Saturday, year-round. You can shop for a meal to cook or put together something to eat beside Prospect Park, whose northwest entrance is right here. Fruit, bread and cheese are my pick for the latter: they're all part of the market's offerings, and you can continue along the park edge with lunch in hand. The selection also includes pastries, yogurt, honey, maple syrup and cut flowers.
218 5th Ave
Find your next romance at The Ripped Bodice
The sisters who created The Ripped Bodice gave romance readers a bookstore devoted to the genre, with a Brooklyn branch on Fifth Avenue that opened in 2023. You can browse historical romance, contemporary love stories and paranormal or fantasy fiction, with choices that include sapphic romantic comedies and romances between men.
336 3rd St
Meet Revolutionary Brooklyn at the Old Stone House
The Maryland soldiers who fought here in 1776 are central to the story at Old Stone House of Brooklyn, south of the bookstore near Fifth Avenue. Inside the reconstructed house, you can explore Witness to War, an interactive exhibition about the Battle of Brooklyn and life in the borough from 1776 to 1783. Maryland troops repeatedly fought British forces at this site, helping Washington's army withdraw. The exhibition places that battle alongside the experience of living in Brooklyn through war and occupation.
376 9th St
Hear music in the back room at Barbès
Two French expats founded Barbès to give musicians a place for original and noncommercial projects, including artists based in Brooklyn. You hear that broad remit in its programming: jazz, improvised music, Western classical music, Americana and musical traditions from around the world all belong here. Farther south on Ninth Street, the bar presents performances in a small back room. That intimate scale is a substantial part of the appeal when you're choosing where to hear live music.
188 Prospect Park W
Have dinner with a film at Nitehawk
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park pairs its programmers' film choices with food and drinks served at your seat. You can make dinner part of a screening, with programming that spans new independent features, repertory films and archival 35mm rarities. Each screening includes a house-made preshow assembled around the film, and the cinema creates special menus inspired by movies. Guest Q&As add another format to the program. At the neighborhood's southern edge, this is a film-night destination you can visit on its own or use to finish an outing.
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A cinema on Prospect Park West whose weekly schedule mixes first-run films with brunch screenings and repertory titles.
4.4★ from 2,473 Google reviews
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Ocean's 8 Billiards
pool hall · Park Slope
A casual sports bar where the games are the draw: pool tables, ping pong, bowling and air hockey.
4.2★ from 1,547 Google reviews
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Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch
public library · Park Slope
The building at Grand Army Plaza has three floors of collections, including books and materials in more than 30 languages.
4.6★ from 1,324 Google reviews
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MyssTic Rooms
escape room center · Park Slope
Three escape rooms on Union Street in Brooklyn — Montauk Project, Ghost Light and The Bird — built to blend theatre with the puzzle-solving.
5★ from 1,157 Google reviews
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Barbès
live music venue · Park Slope · $10–40
A busy bar that programs live music, readings and film screenings.
4.7★ from 900 Google reviews
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EastVille Comedy Club
comedy club · Park Slope
A stand-up comedy room where the lineups mix newer performers with established acts.
4.3★ from 763 Google reviews
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Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket
farmers' market · Park Slope
A Saturday market at the northwest entrance to Prospect Park where around 35 regional farms and producers sell — vegetables, orchard fruit, cheese, honey and maple syrup, baked goods, cut flowers, cactus and succulent plants.
4.7★ from 751 Google reviews
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Sip & Play
cafe · Park Slope
You pick from a collection of over 500 board games and play for three hours at a table, ordering bubble tea, coffee, sandwiches or salads while you go.
4.6★ from 552 Google reviews
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The Ripped Bodice
book store · Park Slope
A romance-only bookstore — one large room running back from the front desk, with the whole stock sorted by subgenre: historical, contemporary, fantasy romance, and queer love stories.
4.8★ from 535 Google reviews
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Old Stone House of Brooklyn
historical place museum · Park Slope
A reconstructed Revolutionary War-era house in Washington Park with exhibit space, a garden and the adjoining JJ Byrne Playground, so a visit can pair looking at the history with time outside.
4.6★ from 373 Google reviews
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Roulette Intermedium
concert hall · Park Slope
A venue on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn presenting experimental music, movement and media, which it has done since 1978.
4.7★ from 342 Google reviews
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beem® Light Sauna
sauna · Park Slope
5★ from 197 Google reviews
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Down to Earth Park Slope Farmers Market
farmers' market · Park Slope
A Sunday farmers market on 4th Street off 5th Avenue at Washington Park, hosted by the Old Stone House and running since 2004.
4.6★ from 177 Google reviews
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Psychic Records
record store · Park Slope
Flip through crates of new and vintage vinyl spanning rock, jazz, soul, country, electronic and experimental, in a tiny shop that has been a Park Slope fixture for nearly 20 years under this name and its former one, Music Matters.
4.6★ from 168 Google reviews
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167 Lincoln Place Spa
massage spa · Park Slope
A massage parlor whose treatments cover foot, sports and deep-tissue massage, as well as hot-stone therapy.
4.7★ from 165 Google reviews
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cityWell brooklyn - Spa in Brooklyn, New York City
spa · Park Slope
A city spa built around soaking and heat: hot tubs, saunas and showers, with massage treatments available too.
4.9★ from 158 Google reviews
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Planted Living & Wellness
spa · Park Slope
4.5★ from 157 Google reviews
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Brooklyn Public Library - Park Slope Library
public library · Park Slope
The draw here is as much the building as the programme: a 1906 Carnegie-funded branch with stained glass archways, freestanding columns, a vaulted stained glass ceiling and a pair of tiled fireplaces.
4★ from 133 Google reviews
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Terrace Books
book store · Park Slope
A local bookshop stocking bestsellers and a children's section, with staff on hand to help.
4.8★ from 122 Google reviews
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Big Onion Walking Tours
tour agency · Park Slope
A tour company running guided walks through New York City neighborhoods and sites of historical interest, at an unhurried pace.
4.9★ from 122 Google reviews
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The Painted Pot Park Slope
art studio · Park Slope
An all-inclusive art studio where you sit down and paint a piece of pottery, or work on canvas with acrylics, mosaic, or the pottery wheel.
4.3★ from 100 Google reviews
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Bathhouse Atlantic Ave
sauna · Park Slope
4.2★ from 84 Google reviews
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Lesbian Herstory Archives
history museum · Park Slope
An archive of materials by and about lesbians and their communities, open to visitors for casual browsing.
4.8★ from 51 Google reviews
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Wholesome Tadka
culinary school · Park Slope
5★ from 49 Google reviews
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Brooklyn Game Lab
board game club · Park Slope
A Park Slope summer and afterschool program where kids play games and then design their own modified versions of them, which the staff help turn into finished new versions.
4.9★ from 42 Google reviews
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The Art Annex
art school · Park Slope
5★ from 17 Google reviews
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Neighborhood FAQs
Where can I eat in Park Slope?
On Fifth Avenue, you can choose handmade Italian pasta at al di là or Korean home cooking at chef Jenny Kwak’s Haenyeo.
al di là Trattoria lists beet and ricotta ravioli with butter and poppy seeds, pappardelle with duck ragù, and other pasta dishes on its dinner menu.
Haenyeo focuses on everyday Korean dishes, with Jenny Kwak combining traditional home cooking with a touch of urban influence.
Where can I enjoy Prospect Park from the Park Slope side?
You can picnic on the park’s west side or take a guided walk through its landscape and history.
Long Meadow stretches nearly a mile along Prospect Park’s west side, with space for picnics, sports and kite-flying.
