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Fort Greene & Clinton Hill, Brooklyn: the Gothamly guide
Hand-picked by Gothamly and checked against each place’s own site. Nobody paid to be here.
- Year-round
BAM
30 Lafayette Ave · America’s oldest performing arts center: the opera house stages plus first-run & repertory films at BAM Rose Cinemas
- Game & show nights
Barclays Center
620 Atlantic Ave · the rust-skinned arena over Atlantic Terminal — Nets, Liberty & the big tours
- Show nights
Brooklyn Paramount
385 Flatbush Ave Ext · the 1928 movie palace, reopened in 2024 as a concert hall under a gilded ceiling
- Daily
Fort Greene Park
DeKalb Ave & Washington Park · Olmsted & Vaux’s hilltop park, crowned by the Prison Ship Martyrs’ Monument
- Daily
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton St · the community-backed indie bookstore (since 2009) with a busy author-event calendar
- In season
Theatre for a New Audience
Polonsky Shakespeare Center, 262 Ashland Pl · Shakespeare & new work in a purpose-built playhouse
- Daily
Junior’s
386 Flatbush Ave Ext · the Downtown Brooklyn diner since 1950 — cheesecake after a show across the street
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