Explore Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, 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 Williamsburg.
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Dave Herman began The City Reliquary Museum as a display in his apartment window. Today, you can see that collector’s attention turned toward subway tokens, Statue of Liberty postcards and fragments of the city itself. Terra-cotta pieces from buildings sit within a permanent collection that also includes geological core samples and paint chips from an L train platform.
Filmmaker conversations, archival 35mm screenings and first-run independent films give you several ways to choose a night at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg, west of the Reliquary on Metropolitan Avenue. Repertory programming brings older films back to the screen, while brunch and midnight series have their own place in the calendar. The original Williamsburg cinema has three relatively small theaters, with meals and drinks served at your seat.
Fashion designers, vintage dealers, jewelry makers and print sellers share Artists & Fleas Williamsburg, north of Nitehawk on North 7th Street. On Saturdays and Sundays, you can browse directly with makers and collectors, asking about the pieces they’ve made or found. The market has occupied a former dry-goods and provisions warehouse since 2003, bringing small creative businesses together under one roof.
From the market, the waterfront is close by at North 5th Street Pier and Park. You can walk out along the piers for open views of the East River and the Manhattan skyline opposite. The decks carry you beyond the neighborhood’s street grid, with railings along the water.
Composers and performers working across chamber music, jazz, electronic music and global traditions shape the program at National Sawdust, inland from the waterfront on North 6th Street. You might hear an intimate unamplified performance or a work built around electronic sound. The venue both commissions and presents new music, including projects that connect sound with poetry and film.
Friends can bowl while a band plays at Brooklyn Bowl, farther north on Wythe Avenue. Sixteen lanes share the music venue, with views toward the live show from the bowling area. You can settle into a game with Blue Ribbon food and drinks served beside the lanes; Chesterfield couches behind them give the group somewhere to gather between turns.
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Guest storytellers guide roleplaying adventures, from creating a mystic for a coven ritual to playing the character you dress as for Halloween.
🚇 Bedford Av (L) · 6 min walk
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Ammazzacaffè hosts live jazz every Sunday.
🚇 Grand St (L) · 4 min walk
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Axe throwing in a warehouse space.
5★ from 8,012 Google reviews
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A concert venue holding up to 1,800 people.
4.6★ from 4,186 Google reviews
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It's a bowling alley, a full-service restaurant and a music venue in one room, so what you get depends entirely on when you turn up.
4.4★ from 3,959 Google reviews
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A thermal bathing complex in Williamsburg where you rotate between eight pools — three hot pools at 104°F, two cold plunges at 45°F and 50°F, two neutral pools at 98°F, and a rooftop pool at 84°F.
4.2★ from 3,905 Google reviews
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A modern cinema built behind a glass exterior, with stadium-style seating in the auditoriums.
4.2★ from 3,223 Google reviews
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A cinema where food from around the world and craft cocktails are brought to you in your seat during the film.
4.6★ from 1,998 Google reviews
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A live music venue laid out over three levels, with three bars and a programme leaning toward indie rock.
4.5★ from 1,598 Google reviews
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This is the original Artists & Fleas market on North 7th Street, an indoor hall of independent stalls selling art, design and fashion, where you browse and buy from the makers themselves.
4.3★ from 1,235 Google reviews
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A bar with live music on the calendar most nights.
4.5★ from 1,215 Google reviews
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A range where you throw axes at targets, with staff on hand to show you the technique first.
4.9★ from 797 Google reviews
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Karaoke is sung in private rooms here, in a room fitted out in a rustic-modern style.
4.5★ from 744 Google reviews
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A game shop stocking board games, tabletop and role-playing titles, along with Magic the Gathering cards.
4.9★ from 695 Google reviews
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A small Williamsburg waterfront park of about three acres on Kent Avenue, with walkways and benches running the length of the piers and the connecting park, looking out across the East River.
4.8★ from 686 Google reviews
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A small vintage and collectibles shop on Bedford Ave where you browse shelves of thrifted goods from the 1950s through the early 2000s.
4.9★ from 639 Google reviews
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Browse two floors holding roughly 35,000 titles, with literature shelved by region rather than in one alphabet — Mediterranean shelves mixing Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek writers, plus separate Irish and British, French and Russian sections.
4.8★ from 578 Google reviews
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You create a custom fragrance at the Williamsburg Scent Lab and leave with it bottled fresh on-site.
4.9★ from 411 Google reviews
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A booked sauna and ice bath session run as a guided class: you settle in, go through a facilitator-led sauna round, then plunge into one of the ice baths, then sit in the social commons afterwards.
5★ from 403 Google reviews
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A new-music hall with a schedule of contemporary classical, experimental and cross-genre concerts — a harp album built from pedal textures and field recordings, a cello project on Gullah music of the South Carolina Low Country told through cello, electronics and dance, an audio-visual set of West African instrumentation and electronics with abstract visuals, and a John Zorn power trio.
4.7★ from 381 Google reviews
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Browse a shop stocked with film cameras — Polaroid above all — and pick up 35mm, 120 and instant film, including rare stocks.
4.5★ from 341 Google reviews
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You browse racks of '70s and '80s clothing — casual dresses, button-down shirts, and a denim wall of vintage Levi's and Carhartt in a range of styles, patterns and fits — across both men's and women's sections.
4.6★ from 322 Google reviews
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A guided walk through central Manhattan taking in the landmarks one after another.
4.9★ from 302 Google reviews
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A comedy theatre and training centre.
4.7★ from 283 Google reviews
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A pool hall in Williamsburg with billiard tables and board games to play.
4.3★ from 275 Google reviews
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This is a Saturday farmers market on Union Avenue between Driggs and N12th Street, running alongside the McCarren Park track and dog run.
4.7★ from 226 Google reviews
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Browse zines, small-press and independently published books, underground comics and alternative magazines — the stock leans toward LGBTQ, punk rock, tattooing, the occult, outlaw art and pop surrealism.
4.9★ from 217 Google reviews
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You pick a scent from Le Labo's unisex line — Santal 33, Rose 31, Another 13, plus their candles and body, hair and face products — with staff talking you through the scent profiles.
4.4★ from 197 Google reviews
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A small room that programs live jazz, with a bar on site.
4.6★ from 191 Google reviews
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A small local history museum in Brooklyn that runs a calendar of events alongside its exhibits.
4.3★ from 190 Google reviews
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A coffee shop serving a rotating selection of roasters, named after Pirate, the three-legged cat the owners keep.
4.5★ from 189 Google reviews
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4.9★ from 179 Google reviews
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A hands-on culinary studio in Williamsburg where you cook together rather than watch.
4.5★ from 172 Google reviews
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This is the Schaefer Landing stop on NYC Ferry's East River route — you board boats here toward DUMBO and Wall St/Pier 11 in one direction, or Greenpoint and East 34th Street in the other.
4.4★ from 151 Google reviews
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Book a private infrared sauna room here.
4.8★ from 149 Google reviews
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4.6★ from 131 Google reviews
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Part of a chain that started in Tokyo, this shop stocks vinyl — new and secondhand — weighted toward Japanese pressings of jazz and rock, with CDs alongside it.
4.9★ from 124 Google reviews
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4.9★ from 123 Google reviews
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One of Brooklyn's largest branches at 26,000 square feet, laid out to evoke an open book with two wings off a central atrium, and a designated New York City landmark since 2006.
4.1★ from 120 Google reviews
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A small screening room on S 3rd Street running its own series and one-off programmes — recurring strands include Anime No Gogo, Blood Brunch and Fist Church, plus month-by-month series and special events.
4.6★ from 112 Google reviews
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A ceramics studio that runs classes and offers firing services, with a gallery space showing ceramics exhibitions.
4.2★ from 109 Google reviews
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The Brick programmes plays and performance work on a rolling calendar across two spaces — the main Brick Theater and the Brick Aux Studio at 628 Metropolitan Ave.
4.6★ from 109 Google reviews
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4.8★ from 105 Google reviews
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A dance studio teaching salsa and bachata, with kids' classes alongside the adult schedule.
4.9★ from 95 Google reviews
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4.7★ from 93 Google reviews
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You reserve a table by the hour and play ping pong; paddles are provided.
4.9★ from 84 Google reviews
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A women's clothing shop stocking a good deal of vintage.
4.2★ from 79 Google reviews
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A wheel-throwing studio in South Williamsburg where you sit at a wheel and make something.
4.9★ from 78 Google reviews
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STREB is a dance company whose performers flip, tumble and leap through physically punishing routines — the New York Times described them as gladiators rather than dancers.
4.9★ from 74 Google reviews
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You book a private pool room online or through the app for a set block of time and play by yourselves — nobody else is in the room.
4.6★ from 72 Google reviews
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Classes are hands-on cooking sessions where you make a full recipe start to finish, broken down step by step.
4.8★ from 55 Google reviews
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You pick a class from the monthly calendar and paint the specific picture listed for that session, with an instructor talking the room through it step by step.
4.9★ from 53 Google reviews
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4.9★ from 53 Google reviews
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An indoor market where several small traders share the floor.
4.6★ from 45 Google reviews
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An art gallery occupying a former bank building dating to 1867, with ornate architecture.
4.5★ from 41 Google reviews
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You can browse furniture and fashion at Dobbin St., or try L Train Vintage’s smaller boutique for occasional designer pieces.
Two East River parks put different parts of Williamsburg’s industrial history beside the water.
For a smaller room, the choice is between a long-running open mic and dinner with live music.
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