Brooklyn is a city and borough with its own sense of self that is diverse, creative, entrepreneurial and family.
It’s New York City’s most populous borough and was its own city until 1898. By itself, Brooklyn is the third biggest city in America after Los Angeles and Chicago.
Most of New York City’s cool stuff has moved to Brooklyn. Oy vey!
Brooklyn Neighborhoods
Fort Greene
Fort Greene, Brooklyn is a historic cultural district next to Downtown Brooklyn,…
Park Slope
Park Slope, Brooklyn is a lovely residential neighborhood of classic brownstones west…
Prospect Park
Prospect Park is the big park in Brooklyn. Its home to the…
Williamsburg
Williamsburg is a hipster, Puerto Rican and Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn. New…
Places in Brooklyn
Flatbush
An African-American and West Indian neighborhood.
Ford Amphitheater
3052 West 21st St Coney Island, Brooklyn
Kings Theatre
1027 Flatbush Ave Flatbush, Brooklyn
On Stage at Kingsborough
KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE MANHATTAN BEACH, BROOKLYN College performing arts center that programs Latin culture ~ ¡New York Latin Culture Sponsor!
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
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
Nydia Velázquez
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
Guadalupe Inn Mexican food with live music
1 Knickerbocker Ave at Johnson Street Bushwick, Brooklyn Closed on Mondays
Carlos Menchaca is a Mexican-American New York City Council member
DISTRICT 38: Bay Ridge, Greenwood Heights, Red Hook, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace Elected 2013 & 2017 Term limited
Continue Reading Carlos Menchaca is a Mexican-American New York City Council member
The Woods
48 South 4th St between Wythe & Kent Williamsburg, Brooklyn Cuba Caliente Sundays
Issue Project Room
Experimental performance space for new music, dance, film, and literature
Grand Prospect Hall
A large Victorian banquet hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn rented for weddings and the occasional experiential performance
