Hidden Gems in Brooklyn
Looking for hidden gems in Brooklyn? This list of 11 includes The City Reliquary (Williamsburg, Brooklyn). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, so voting decides it from here.
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The City Reliquary
attractionWilliamsburg, Brooklyn
A small nonprofit museum of New York City artifacts and ephemera that grew out of a Williamsburg apartment window display.
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Green-Wood Cemetery
attractionGreenwood Heights, Brooklyn
A 478-acre 1838 rural cemetery whose new Green-House visitor center, a $34 million former flower-shop conversion, opened across from its main gate in April 2026.
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Kings County Distillery
attractionBrooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn
Founded in 2010 as the first NYC distillery since Prohibition, now pouring whiskey from the Navy Yard's 1899 Paymaster building.
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Weeksville Heritage Center
attractionCrown Heights, Brooklyn
Preserves one of the first free Black communities in the US through four reconstructed Hunterfly Road houses, restored in a $4 million project completed in February 2026.
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Red Hook, Brooklyn
A bean-to-bar chocolate maker's factory shop in Red Hook, offering bars and drinking chocolate made on site.
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Bargemusic
attractionDUMBO, Brooklyn
A chamber-music venue near the Brooklyn Bridge that spent over 50 years aboard a floating barge before relocating to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse, now offering free classical concerts.
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Wyckoff House Museum
attractionEast Flatbush, Brooklyn
Built around 1652 by a Dutch farmhand, this Clarendon Road farmhouse is New York City's oldest verified structure and, since 1965, its first designated landmark.
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Waterfront Museum & Showboat Barge
attractionRed Hook, Brooklyn
A maritime museum aboard the 1914 Lehigh Valley Barge #79, one of the last wooden covered barges of its kind still afloat and listed on the National Register.
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Lefferts Historic House
attractionProspect Park, Brooklyn
A nearly 250-year-old Dutch farmhouse relocated into Prospect Park in 1918, now run as a free museum honoring both the Lefferts family and the enslaved Africans who worked its land.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn
A working rooftop soil farm atop a Navy Yard building, reachable only by guided tour, growing produce sold at city greenmarkets and restaurants.
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Old Stone House
attractionPark Slope, Brooklyn
A 1930s rebuild of a 1699 Dutch farmhouse, moved slightly from its original location, marking the site of a pivotal 1776 Battle of Brooklyn stand that let Washington's army escape.
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