Explore Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, 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 Sunset Park.
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 Sunset Park.
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League bowlers and casual groups both play at Melody Lanes, a 26-lane neighborhood alley where you can make a game of the outing with friends or family. Take turns bowling and watching each other’s shots, with an arcade for a change of game between rounds. Glow bowling is also part of the program, offered in separate sessions.
Working Brooklyn makers teach the small-group workshops at Craftsman Ave, where you can build an oak side table, make stained glass or craft a leather bag. Welding and knife-making are on the roster, too, alongside a class devoted to refurbishing and upcycling a classic Game Boy. Beginners learn the tools and processes with individual attention from the instructors.
You and your friends have more than 500 tabletop games to explore inside Brooklyn Game Knight, in the same Industry City cluster as Craftsman Ave. Settle around a table in the lounge and play from the full library. The bar and café serve snacks, specialty cocktails and a large selection of teas while you play.
Ginger is the starting ingredient at Barrow’s Intense NY Tasting Room, where you can sample the liqueur produced on site and learn how its flavor is made. Close to the game lounge, this Industry City stop puts a Brooklyn-made spirit alongside whiskey, gin, vodka and brandy from distillers across New York State.
At the Brooklyn Army Terminal waterfront, you can watch ferries come and go, stroll the promenade or picnic beside the harbor. The public waterfront includes the north edge of Pier 4, and fishing is another way to spend time here. This is a separate southern extension from the Industry City cluster, with a ferry landing that also lets you make the boat ride part of your outing.
Find upcoming street fairs, performances and other unique events in Sunset Park.
6 things worth doing in the next 7 days · Friday, October 16th – Thursday, October 22nd
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 Friday with Friends | Fri, Oct 16 | Brooklyn Game Knight, Sunset ParkSunset Park · Brooklyn | Not posted yetPrice not listed |
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 Saturday Star Wars | Sat, Oct 17 | Brooklyn Game Knight, Sunset ParkSunset Park · Brooklyn | Saturdays 6pmPrice not listed |
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 Sunday Roleplay | Sun, Oct 18 | Brooklyn Game Knight, Sunset ParkSunset Park · Brooklyn | Sundays 5pmPrice not listed |
No events listed for Monday, October 19 yet.
No events listed for Tuesday, October 20 yet.
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 Wednesday the Gathering | Wed, Oct 21 | Brooklyn Game Knight, Sunset ParkSunset Park · Brooklyn | Wednesdays 7pmPrice not listed |
| Event | Date | Where | Hours |
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 Burlesque in the Back | Thu, Oct 22 | Freddy's Bar, Sunset ParkSunset Park · Brooklyn | Thursdays 8pmPrice not listed |
 Thursday Paint Knight | Thu, Oct 22 | Brooklyn Game Knight, Sunset ParkSunset Park · Brooklyn | Not posted yet$15 entry |
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You can play games with friends and meet new people at Brooklyn Game Knight's casual Friday gathering.
🚇 36 St (D N R) · 3 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 2 places, closest 2 min walk
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Brooklyn Game Knight’s weekly Star Wars gathering is devoted to trading card game play.
🚇 36 St (D N R) · 3 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 3 places, closest 4 min walk
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You can play Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop roleplaying games at Brooklyn Game Knight’s weekly Sunday gathering.
🚇 36 St (D N R) · 3 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 3 places, closest 4 min walk
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Brooklyn Game Knight brings Magic: The Gathering players together for a weekly night with two formats.
🚇 36 St (D N R) · 3 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 3 places, closest 4 min walk
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Work on your game miniatures at Brooklyn Game Knight’s weekly painting session.
🚇 36 St (D N R) · 3 min walk
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You can catch a weekly burlesque show at Freddy's Bar.
🚇 Prospect Av (R) · 4 min walk
🍴 Eat nearby · 4 places, closest 3 min walk
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A neighbourhood cinema in Bay Ridge showing the current family releases alongside the grown-up titles — Toy Story 5, Moana and Minions and Monsters are all on the schedule, with PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie arriving 13 August.
4.1★ from 4,180 Google reviews
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This is an indoor trampoline and adventure park where kids work through attractions like the Battle Beam, Climbing Hill, climbing walls and dodgeball.
4.4★ from 2,709 Google reviews
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Twenty-six lanes in Sunset Park, plus arcade games and glow bowling if you want the lights-down version.
4.1★ from 2,164 Google reviews
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You book one of four private escape rooms and your group has 60 minutes to solve it together.
4.7★ from 684 Google reviews
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You pay a flat admission and play as much as you want from the cafe's board game library, with drinks and snacks available while you play.
5★ from 540 Google reviews
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You book a workshop and make one object over the session — a stained glass piece, an oak side table, a survival knife, a custom leather bag, or a refurbished Game Boy.
5★ from 446 Google reviews
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An indoor entertainment centre with trampolines, an arcade, bumper cars, an indoor playground, VR headsets and a 6D dynamic theater with motion seats and special effects.
4.7★ from 423 Google reviews
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This is the Pier 4 ferry landing on the Sunset Park waterfront, where the South Brooklyn route runs up past Red Hook and Brooklyn Bridge Park to Wall Street with harbor views along the way, and where you can also catch the ferry out to Rockaway.
4.6★ from 279 Google reviews
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A billiards room with tables to play on and a bar attached, serving drinks and snacks alongside the games.
4.4★ from 259 Google reviews
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A bike shop on the edge of Sunset Park that rents bikes as well as selling and repairing them, so it works as a starting point if you want to ride without hauling your own bikes across the city.
4.4★ from 236 Google reviews
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Kids climb over 150 routes on colorful themed walls, each set at easy, medium and hard so siblings of different sizes can share the same wall.
4.8★ from 187 Google reviews
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An archery range with room to shoot, plus ping-pong tables on site.
5★ from 176 Google reviews
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A waterfront pier that works as a ferry dock and is also open to anglers.
4.6★ from 152 Google reviews
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A 5,000 sq ft indoor play space at 772 50th Street where children climb, slide and jump.
4.8★ from 151 Google reviews
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The studio teaches salsa, Argentine tango, bachata, hustle, swing, Latin and ballroom, in group classes and private lessons.
4.9★ from 148 Google reviews
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Pool and ping pong tables in a roomy space, with sports playing on an oversized screen.
4.1★ from 146 Google reviews
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A Brooklyn distillery making ginger liqueur, cold-pressed from over 200 pounds of fresh ginger per batch.
4.8★ from 129 Google reviews
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A cooking studio in Bensonhurst where children cook from scratch rather than watch.
4.4★ from 101 Google reviews
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A street photographer runs the workshops and walking tours here, kept to small groups.
5★ from 97 Google reviews
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4.5★ from 95 Google reviews
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5★ from 88 Google reviews
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A workshop studio running hands-on creative sessions: textured painting, bento cake decorating, soy candle making, and a tiramisu night.
5★ from 73 Google reviews
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You take a seat in the lounge at Industry City and play anything you like from a library of over 500 board games.
4.9★ from 66 Google reviews
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Pool and ping pong tables in a casual room, with ice cream and bubble tea also on offer.
4.9★ from 58 Google reviews
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Children join 90-minute chess classes built around structured lessons on strategy and focus, puzzle tournaments, and game analysis where they go back over their own play.
5★ from 48 Google reviews
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One place centers climbing routes and ropes, while the other offers a playground for climbing, sliding and jumping.
Industry City has one shop for secondhand materials and another devoted to artists’ oil paint.
At Industry City, you can browse Japanese pop culture at one shop and household goods and stationery at another.
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