Bedford-Stuyvesant

Noel and Geeta Brown have been frying bara and filling it with curried chickpeas since 2002, first in a narrow storefront on Nostrand Avenue and since 2018 around the corner on Fulton with seats. You order doubles at the counter and say how much pepper you want. The James Beard Foundation gave the place an America's Classics award in 2019.

Mon, 6:30am to 4pm. Tue to Sat, 6:30am to 7pm. Closed Sunday. Listings disagree on the close, so go earlier rather than later

A cheap neighborhood bar on Bedford Avenue that is open from noon until four in the morning every day of the week. It is run by the people behind Skinny Dennis and Lucky Dog in Williamsburg. Dogs are welcome and the drinks are priced accordingly.

Daily, noon to 4am

A mezcal-leaning bar on Fulton at Classon with a large backyard and a ping-pong table in it. DJs play records inside most weekends. It takes no reservations and the yard fills up early once the weather turns.

Mon to Wed, 5pm to 1am. Thu, 5pm to 2am. Fri, 5pm to 3am. Sat, 4pm to 3am. Sun, 4pm to 1am

A natural wine bar five doors from Loudmouth on Marcus Garvey Boulevard, with a free pool table inside and a back garden under one big tree. There is a long communal table out there and a scatter of bistro tables. Jazz plays inside and food pop-ups turn up in the yard.

Mon to Thu, 5pm to midnight. Fri to Sun, 3pm to midnight

One of the first parks the City of Brooklyn ever laid out, on land taken in 1857 and built between 1870 and 1871 to an Olmsted and Vaux plan. It was Tompkins Park until it was renamed for Herbert Von King, a community leader people called the mayor of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The amphitheater in the middle carries free performances through the summer.

Open 6am to 1am daily. The cultural arts center inside keeps its own shorter hours

Craig Samuel and Ben Grossman opened this on the Lewis and MacDonough corner in 2008 and it became the part of Bed-Stuy where people sit for a long time. The kitchen runs Lowcountry shrimp and grits and a Louisiana gumbo, and the hot chicken is the other reason people come. It is a full sit-down dinner rather than a quick stop.

Mon to Thu, 11am to 10pm. Fri, 11am to 11pm. Sat, 11am to 4pm then 5pm to 11pm. Sun, 10am to 4pm then 5pm to 10pm

A Neapolitan pizzeria on the Halsey and Lewis corner, fitted out with salvaged furniture and mismatched chairs. It opened in 2009, before this stretch had much else on it, and the wood oven is still the point. There is a garden at the back when the weather allows.

Mon to Fri, 5pm to 10pm. Sat and Sun, 10am to 10pm

The bakery storefront two doors down from the pizzeria, selling espresso and pastries from early in the morning, with bread by the loaf. It is a counter with a handful of tables rather than somewhere you settle in for hours. The same operators run both addresses on this block.

Daily, roughly 7am to 5pm. The operator does not publish these, so treat them as approximate

Kai Avent-deLeon, who grew up in the neighborhood, opened this on Tompkins Avenue in 2014 selling womenswear and jewelry from small labels, a lot of them Brooklyn ones, plus ceramics. A coffee counter called S,T Coffee sits at the back and keeps people coming in who are not there to shop. She also started Building Black Bed-Stuy, which runs a Sunday marketplace for Black-owned vendors.

Mon to Fri, 11am to 5pm. Sat and Sun, 11am to 6pm

A theater inside Restoration Plaza that opened in May 1972 as part of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the first community development corporation in the country. It reopened after a renovation with music and dance added to the play schedule, and film alongside them. In summer the plaza outside runs free jazz and soul.

Box office and lobby follow the performance calendar. The plaza outside is open during Restoration Plaza business hours

Walter Alston opened this as a pool hall in the early 1950s and his daughter Linda Greer runs it now. The jukebox plays seventies R&B, the Christmas lights and the birthday banner stay up all year, and a shot with a beer is five dollars. Thursday is snacky hour, when the wings and hot sausages are free.

Open daily into the early hours. The bar publishes no fixed schedule, so call before a very late arrival