Things to do in Park Slope

Prospect Park

Brooklyn's flagship park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and first opened to visitors in 1867. Inside are the Long Meadow, the wooded Ravine, a 60-acre lake, a zoo, an ice rink, a bandshell and a carousel.

Audubon Center at the Boathouse

The country's first urban-area Audubon Center, a partnership of the Prospect Park Alliance and Audubon New York since 2000. Its nature programs for all ages are free.

LeFrak Center at Lakeside

171 East Drive

Skating and hockey on covered and open-air rinks in winter. In warm months, the park's largest splash pad, roller skating, boating and pickleball. The Duck Island Cafe and Bar is open year-round.

Prospect Park Carousel

Carved in 1912 by Charles Carmel and restored in 1990: 53 horses plus a lion, a giraffe, a deer and two dragon-pulled chariots, in the park's Children's Corner. One of the few wheelchair-accessible carousels in the country.

Green-Wood Cemetery

500 25th Street · Greenwood Heights

Founded in 1838 and now a National Historic Landmark: 478 acres of hills, glacial ponds and paths, with one of the largest outdoor collections of 19th- and 20th-century statuary and mausoleums. The 1776 Battle of Long Island was fought across its grounds. Admission is free.

Old Stone House & Washington Park

336 3rd St · on the Park Slope and Gowanus border

A reconstruction of the 1699 Vechte-Cortelyou House, on the spot where the final fighting of the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn took place. It also marks the birthplace of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Open Friday to Sunday, noon to 4pm.

Lefferts Historic House

An 18th-century Flatbush farmhouse and city landmark, moved into the park in 1918 from Flatbush Avenue near Maple Street. Run by the Prospect Park Alliance with the Historic House Trust.

Park Slope Library

431 6th Ave

A Carnegie-funded branch, at this address since 1906, with stained-glass archways, a vaulted stained-glass ceiling and a pair of tiled fireplaces.

Central Library

10 Grand Army Plaza · Grand Army Plaza

Brooklyn Public Library's main building, opened in 1941 and designed to resemble an open book, with Art Deco detailing. A city landmark since 1997; a multi-phase renovation is under way.

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park

188 Prospect Park West

A dine-in cinema with seven screens and table service, in a theater that first opened in 1928 as the Sanders. It reopened as Nitehawk in 2018 and shows first-run and repertory films.

The Bell House

149 7th St · Gowanus

A music and comedy venue in a renovated 1920s Gowanus warehouse, open since 2008, with a main room and a front lounge.

Union Hall

702 Union St

A bar and music and comedy venue in a converted warehouse, with fireplaces, a library room, two free bocce courts, a garden and a downstairs stage. Children are welcome until 6pm; it is 21+ after that.

Littlefield

635 Sackett St · Gowanus

An independent venue since 2009, in a former 1920s printing-press warehouse: comedy, live music, dance parties and podcasts. Events are 21+ unless noted.

Freddy's Bar

627 5th Ave

A Fifth Avenue bar, open daily from noon to 4am, with a comedy open mic every Monday and Wednesday.

Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket

Prospect Park West & Flatbush Ave · Grand Army Plaza

GrowNYC's Brooklyn flagship farmers market, every Saturday year-round since 1989, at the park's northwest entrance. SNAP/EBT shoppers get a $2 Health Bucks bonus for every $2 spent, up to $10 a day.