East Williamsburg

A former factory converted to artist lofts in 2005, now four floors of galleries and studios diagonally across Bogart Street from the L entrance. Slag Contemporary, Studio 10 and Momenta Art all have space inside. Walking the hallways costs nothing.

Hours vary by tenant. Most galleries open Thursday through Sunday, roughly noon to 6pm.

A small French-leaning cafe on Varet Street that pours wine and beer alongside the coffee. Breakfast runs all day and the food is eggs and sandwiches rather than a pastry case. The block is residential and quiet compared with Bogart Street two over.

Monday to Friday 7:30am to 4pm. Saturday and Sunday 7:30am to 4:30pm.

Six and a half acres on the site of Peter Cooper's glue works, which his descendants sold to the city in 1895. A 2012 rebuild put in turf, a concrete skate park and a quarter-mile jogging loop. The dog run sits in the southwest corner at Sharon Street and Morgan Avenue.

Open daily under the standard NYC Parks schedule of 6am to 1am.

An Italian butcher on Graham Avenue run by the Aliperti family since 1974, making its own fresh sausage and dried soppressata behind the counter. Sandwiches are built to order. It closes at 6:30pm and is shut Sunday and Monday.

Tuesday to Saturday 9am to 6:30pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Three brothers from Italy opened this pasticceria on Manhattan Avenue in October 1976 and the family still runs it. Cannoli, gelato and espresso at a marble counter with seating at the back. It stays open to 11pm on weeknights and midnight on Friday and Saturday.

Sunday to Thursday 8am to 11pm. Friday and Saturday 8am to midnight.

New and used vinyl on Meserole Street, two doors from 3 Dollar Bill. The stock leans punk and metal. Reissues fill another part of the bins, and the cheap records are worth the time. Open noon to eight, seven days.

Daily noon to 8pm.

A used and new bookstore on Flushing Avenue, trading since 2012. The shelves run heavily to poetry and philosophy, with a large foreign language section toward the back. Stock turns over fast and the prices stay low.

Daily noon to 7pm.

Kings County Brewers Collective brews on Troutman Street and pours it a few steps from the tanks, a couple of doors from the Bushwick Collective walls. The tap list turns over constantly. Dogs are allowed and the space absorbs a crowd without a wait.

Monday to Thursday 4pm to 11pm. Friday 3pm to midnight. Saturday noon to midnight. Sunday 1pm to 10pm.

A diner that has sat on the corner of Metropolitan and Union since 1928 and reopened in September 2024 under Louis Skibar with chef Jackie Carnesi. It runs around the clock, which makes it the one certainty at 3am in this part of Brooklyn. Diner standards with a Texas accent.

Open 24 hours, daily.

Chef Ivan Garcia's Mexico City cooking on Graham Avenue, with a bar at the front and tables behind it. Weekend service starts at noon, which covers a day show. Weeknights it opens at 5pm.

Monday to Thursday 5pm to 10pm. Friday 5pm to 11pm. Saturday noon to 11pm. Sunday noon to 10pm.

Japanese small plates and sushi at communal tables on Bogart Street, a door from the L entrance. The menu carries a large vegan and vegetarian section rather than treating it as an afterthought. Dinner only, and the kitchen stops at 10pm.

Tuesday to Sunday 5pm to 10pm. Closed Monday.

A bar on Grattan Street in a building that used to make caskets, opened in October 2010 by two people who had been playing in bands. Everything behind the bar is vegan, mixers included, and there is pizza late. Trivia and karaoke fill most of the calendar.

Monday to Thursday 4pm to 2am. Friday 4pm to 4am. Saturday 2pm to 4am. Sunday 2pm to 2am.

A bar off the Graham Avenue L built out of salvaged wood, with a back patio and a window where Howlin' Taco runs Austin-style breakfast tacos seven nights a week. It stays open to 4am every night. Happy hour runs 5pm to 9pm on weekdays.

Monday to Thursday 2pm to 4am. Friday to Sunday noon to 4am.

A micro roastery on Grattan Street with a cafe counter at the front of the same daylit space. They roast on site and run public cuppings where anyone can taste what is currently on the bar. You order at the counter and sit at the long tables.

Weekdays 7am to 5pm. Weekends 8am to 5pm.

A tortilleria with a restaurant attached on Harrison Place, a block from the Morgan Avenue L entrance. They nixtamalize heirloom corn on site and sell tortillas by the bag as well as cooking with them. Dinner starts at 6pm and Sunday service runs in the afternoon.

Tuesday to Saturday 6pm to 10pm, to 11pm on the weekend. Sunday 1pm to 8pm. Closed Monday.

Four acres between Montrose Avenue and Boerum Street, renamed in 1990 for Frances Hamburger Sternberg. A synthetic turf field takes up most of it, with handball and basketball courts alongside and a dog park at the southern end. The playground shuts at 9pm.

Park open daily. Playground hours are 6am to 9pm.

The counter directly across from the Morgan Avenue L stairs, and the one the loft buildings on Bogart Street run on. Coffee, bagels and sandwiches ordered standing up. Independently owned, with two other Brooklyn shops under the same name.

Monday to Friday 7am to 7pm. Saturday and Sunday 8am to 7pm.

A dive on Waterbury Street with pool, a tented back patio and a kitchen doing Mexican-leaning pub food. Loud guitars on the stereo and art covering the walls. It opens at noon and runs to 4am from Thursday through Sunday.

Monday to Wednesday noon to 2am. Thursday to Sunday noon to 4am.

Wyckoff Avenue has had this bar off the Jefferson L since 2012, female owned, with coffee during the day and a yoga studio behind the bar. Karaoke, comedy and pool fill the nights. It opens at 3pm and closes at midnight.

Daily 3pm to midnight.

A narrow bar on Flushing Avenue in what used to be the Pocket Utopia gallery, fitted out with art deco salvage and a back garden. Matt Webber and Keith Cochran opened it in 2010 and the drinks are still built properly. It holds a few dozen people at most.

Daily 6pm to 2am.

The biggest of the L Train Vintage shops, in a warehouse on Knickerbocker Avenue where the racks run the length of the floor. Most of what is on them falls between five and thirty dollars. It closes at 7pm, or half past on the weekend.

Monday to Thursday noon to 7pm. Friday to Sunday noon to 7:30pm.

The Graham Avenue branch of a Bushwick roaster that started on Wyckoff Avenue in 2008. It stays open until 9pm, which is unusual for coffee anywhere near these venues. Counter service and enough tables to sit down.

Daily 7am to 9pm.