- Question: What makes Brooklyn stand out among New York City's boroughs?
- Answer: Brooklyn is often considered to be the city's trendiest borough, known throughout the world for its avant-garde culinary scene, art galleries, and performance venues.
Unique Activities
⮕ Triskelion Arts
See innovative dance performances and support unusual local talent.
Triskelion Arts is one of Greenpoint's premiere nonprofit performing arts associations, founded in 2000 by the KICK STAND dance collective. The organization presents annual performances across a wide variety of performance genres, including dance, improvisation, comedy, Butoh, and clowning, working with prominent regional and national companies.
like Launch Movement Experience, Vangeline Theater, and The Feath3r Theory. Five performances spaces are operated by the company, including the 88-seat black box Muriel Schulman Theater and the 40-seat Douglas Elliman Studio Theater. Regular programming series includes the Split Bill Series, which highlights emerging artists. Brooklyn visitors can also attend annual special events like the Collaborations in Dance Festival, the Never Before Never Again improvisational festival, and the Comedy in Dance Festival.
106 Calyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11222, website, Phone: 718-389-3473
⮕ Bien Cuit
Savor artisan pastries and enjoy a romantic morning treat.
Bien Cuit is a French-style bakery in Cobble Hill. The bakery's name translates as "well done" in French, referring both to its high-quality baking operations and its signature caramelized crust on its small-batch breads.
Its traditional French baguettes, which have been named among the best baguettes in the United States by Bon Appetit, are served up daily alongside specialty breads such as pane dolce, campagne, challah, and pain de mie. A simple, classy menu of cafe fare is available throughout the day, including coriander plum danishes, ham and brie croissants, hummus tartines, and sweet pea and spring onion quiches. Decadent desserts range from ginger muscovado cookies to spiced hibiscus pound cake slices.
120 Smith St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, website, Phone: 718-852-0200
For a Date
⮕ Sweet Polly
Sip craft cocktails and admire the stylish vibe on a weekend night.
Sweet Polly is a chic new Prospect Heights cocktail bar, conveniently located near Barclays Center for after-show drinks and bites.
The hip bar, which operates as the sister restaurant to popular single-origin cafe Hungry Ghost, serves up a glamorous menu of craft cocktails overseen by The Meatball Shop's Bruno Dias. Excellent house cocktails include the vodka-infused Golden Eye, which pairs cold brew coffee and vermouth with chocolate bitters, or the cleverly-titled Hotline Ming, which infuses mezcal and Sichuan baijiu with ancho reyes chile, lime, and agave.
Negronis and dirty martinis are also served up on tap, along with a selection of regional craft beers and fine wines. Bar fare includes shrimp rolls, gourmet grilled cheeses, and a full oyster raw bar.
71 6th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, website, Phone: 718-484-9600
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