Brand New

Before

0.3 mi · 6 min walk - Downtown Brooklyn

Rebecca Fitting and Jessica Stockton Bagnulo opened Greenlight on the corner of Fulton and South Portland in 2009, raising part of the money from Fort Greene neighbors. Tall shelves, a wide front table of new fiction, a children's section at the back and handwritten staff cards all the way through. It runs author events most weeks and stays open until 10pm every night, which almost no other bookshop in Brooklyn does.

After

0.2 mi · 5 min walk - Boerum Hill

Twenty-seven taps and a long bottle list on Fourth Avenue a few doors from Bergen Street, with a walled back yard of picnic tables that is open in the warm months. Bowls of popcorn sit on the bar. There is no kitchen, and it runs to 4am most nights. It is the closest late bar to Roulette by a wide margin.