Hey Brooklyn, it’s me again. Your social voice and guiding light toward all things good and happening in the borough this weekend. Here’s to you, to where you are, to who you are, to what you’ll do this weekend. Trust me when I say it’s going to be a good one. Or try to prove me wrong. Either way, I’ve made plans for you, waiting for you now in your weekend guide.
Cheers baby. Let’s do this.
ALL WEEKEND
Open House New York, Citywide
We live in a city with an iconic skyline and a plethora of architectural masterpieces that we can only gaze at from afar before returning to our little shoebox apartments. Until this weekend. Open House NY opens the doors, chambers, and windows and gateways of hundreds of unseen or unapproachable destinations all over the city. Which I’m still unsure if that will make me feel better about living here or worse, but it will at least satiate my curiosity about what the hell is happening inside these boobies. Also, please feel free to continue boycotting the pretentious space that took the Brooklyn Night Bazaar from us. Plan your weekend here. Keep in mind Domino Park is always open. Ok bye.
Honk NYC Street Band Festival, All Over Town
New York kind of pretends to have everything, but if you’ve ever been to New Orleans or Lisbon or Mexico City, you realize that we’re really lacking on the street band front. Let’s bring those buskers above ground and get outside the warehouse to shake our stuff on the street, all over town, this weekend. It’s the 12th Annual Honk NYC fest featuring 15 concerts and countless pop-ups all over the city. Check the schedule here and get movin’ to get groovin’.
THURSDAY
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival
Halloween is (kind of) upon us, although it’s been at CVS since July. Help get yourself into the spooky spirit with the third annual Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. It’s happening all over town, with special live performances at any of those creepy after-hours parties in Bushwick that always end up being a really bad idea because everyone’s faces are melting off. It starts tonight, check the schedule here and get scared.
Beer, Bourbon, Bites at Mercy House in Clinton Hill
It’s Thursday and that means you’re going to start pretending like it’s the weekend. You’re going to stay out late. You’re going to be imbibing. Have a little mercy and open your heart while you’re challenging your liver. Revel with a cause at the Beer, Bourbon, and Bites benefit at the Mercy House in Clinton Hill. They’ll be hosting local favorites Da Ciro, Taqueria Tepango, Capt. Lawrence, Six Point and so many others to tempt you into giving and getting a lot in return. You’ll be helping to fund art programs for children with autism and their families. Give your local watering hole a break. The event is $40. Tickets available here now. 274 Willoughby Ave.
FRIDAY
Widow Jane’s 6th Anniversary Party in Red Hook
This city has a way of wearing hard on everything that makes it so very few things here get better with age. Our subway stations are drippy and overrun with rat mob bosses. Neiman Marcus is now a WeWork space. Williamsburg is completely lost. Widow Jane in Red Hook has found a way to bottle up the best of that Brooklyn spirit and make it age in all the best ways. Celebrate their 6th anniversary this Friday with special tastings, live music, live haikus, ice cream and beers, and everything that will make you feel perfectly preserved and aged in only the best ways. Tickets, $40 available here. 218 Conover St.
Roller Disco and Discotechnique at House of Yes in Bushwick
Summer might be gone but Donna Summer is still here. And disco isn’t dead and neither am I and neither are you. Celebrate all of those things plus sequins this Friday night at House of Yes. They’ll turn the dance floor into a roller rink and all of your new friends into future lovers and those daring disco bootie shorts into your best idea yet. Take off your skates (and really anything else you want to) for Discotechnique dance party after. Dress as the undead disco, read more and get tickets here. Skate starts at 6pm, disco at 10pm. 2 Wyckoff Ave.
Mean Red presents the Malaa Illegal Tour at 1896 Studios in Bushwick
It’s hard to sort through all the noise of dance parties on the weekends in this city. That’s where I come in. I’m not going to give you any bullshit, just exactly the parties you’ve been looking for with exactly the right people and all the right moves and beats to keep you grooving all night. So start paying attention and please, try to prove me wrong. It won’t be happening tonight when Mean Red and the anonymous, illegal Malaa tour take over a studio space in Bushwick. Tickets are $40 and are available here. Just trust me, ok? This is what you’re looking for. 215 Ingraham St.
SATURDAY
Queens Beer Fest in Long Island City
Autumn is finally here, and that means we’ll be trading in our glasses of rose for steins of beer, our summer flings for a steady beer-and-flannel, and our overalls for lederhosen. (just kidding about that last part. never, ever wear lederhosen.) Head to the 3rd annual Queens Beer Fest in Long Island City. Live music, food, raffles, and enough beer from over 30 breweries to warm you up and cut you loose baby. Which is just the way I like you. Tickets available here (held at the LIC Flea and Food, 5-25 46th Avenue).
Museum of Pizza somewhere at the William Vale in that place we used to call Williamsburg
Eat pizza. Attend museums. Appreciate art. Have an Instagram but try your damnedest to be above the influence.
Any confusion there guys? Well, here comes the lastest fucking iteration of “I think so highly of myself I’ve decided I’m art” and also “In case you were wondering if my Instagram reflects my real life or not” with the MUSEUM OF PIZZA. Which is just another way of saying, food is dead, art is dead, we are dead, this city is lost, participate in this event and lose my respect forever they are stealing your money and capitalizing off of your own egotism. Tell me to calm down and get a hot New York slice slapped in your face. I’m only including a link here so that you can decide to be above it. (Be above it. I believe in you.) 55 Wythe Ave (or just look up at what used to be a nice view)
Brooklyn Night Market at Villain in Williamsburg – Fall Edition!
Remember how great Brooklyn Bazaar was before BMW took it from us? Come revisit the feeling and experience and Brooklyn nightlife at its finest Friday night at the Brooklyn Night Market. Artisans, food stands, pop-up tattoo parlors, craft cocktails and other libations to convince you to make bad decisions about the first three things I mentioned in this sentence. You’ll feel good about it in the morning, because is there no better virtue than supporting local businesses? Not in this town. $5 online presale here, $10 at the door. 307 Kent Ave.
A Current Affair Vintage Marketplace at Industry City, Sunset Park
Following the success of the indoor brooklyn flea market, this pop-up vintage fair features 80+ “premier” vintage retailers (premier vintage? what is that, like it was worn by nobility in its former life?? OH, that’s to justify the pricetag. ok. well, hey, do what you gotta do.), plus fancy bites, drinks, and plenty of racks, spaces, and surfaces to rummage through. It’s happening both Saturday and Sunday, get lost in here for a while, then find that Halloween costume that you don’t have yet. $15 admission. 12-6pm, 220 36th st. Tickets and info here.. are here.
SUNDAY
The Second Annual Suarez Family Brewery Country Experience at Threes Brewing in Gowanus
What happens when two of the best in the brewing world collide? A magical celebration of food and culture and suds and tunes. The amazing Suarez family brewing joins Threes Brewing in Gowanus this Sunday for their second annual down home celebration. There will be country beers, country tunes, and food like grandma used to make. Plus its free which is how grandma always intended it to be. The celebration is from noon-6pm but that warm, down-home inebriation and jubilation will last you well into the wee hours. Info here, 333 Douglass St.
Pickle Day NYC in the LES
Yeah, I know. I make fun of a lot of food events happening around the city and you might think I’ve soured to all of them. False. I’m only half-sour. And this one is on the better part of that half. It’s pickle day Sunday in the Lower East Side and your best reason to cross the river this weekend. The biggest pickle festival in the world, Sunday the LES will be transformed into the historic pushcart food market of its past complete with the sour specimens and gurkity gherkins that put the neighborhood on the map. Kind of. Anyway, just go. There will be no pickle installations, you’ll have to stage your own photos. Tickle your own pickle, so to speak. The event is free to attend, info here. On Orchard between Delancey and East Houston.
Gowanus Talks presents Toxic Shock: What’s Going On in the Gowanus Canal, at Parklife in Gowanus
Don’t ask questions you don’t want to know the answer to. Do attend events with your concerned community members where your suspicions are floating toxically passed all of your noses as you sip only slightly-toxic cocktails and talk about the environment at a very real, very seen sea-level. This is the final event in the Sunday series and will include a walking tour of the canal to better understand just how polluted it is, and what is being done to clean it up. Don’t be scared. This is our city. We have done this. Let’s face it. Info here, noon-2pm at Parklife in Gowanus. 636 DeGraw St.
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