Brooklyn, New York City's borough of "cool"

Manhattan is so expensive that most of the cool stuff moved to Brooklyn. Oy vey!

Flatbush

An African-American and West Indian neighborhood.

Ford Amphitheater

3052 West 21st St
Coney Island, Brooklyn

Roulette Intermedium

A center for New Music.
509 Atlantic Ave at Third Ave
Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

Barbès

PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn ~ This eclectic French-owned underground night club that regularly books Latin artists was also the original home of Peruvian psychedelic cumbia band Chicha Libre

Brooklyn Museum

Wednesday-Sunday
PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn
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First Saturdays free party
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NYC’s second biggest museum has good collections of African and Pre-Columbian art.

House of Yes

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, Tue-Sun ~ NYC’s aerial burlesque nightclub is as close as you can get to the good old party days in public

BAM Café

30 Lafayette Ave
between Flatbush & Fulton
Fort Greene, Brooklyn

U.S. Representative NY District 7. First Latina on the New York City Council and first Puerto Rican woman in U.S. Congress.
MANHATTAN
Lower East Side, East Village
BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Heights, Bushwick, Carroll Gardens, Greenpoint, Red Hook, Williamsburg
QUEENS
Maspeth, Ridgewood, Woodside