Take the 2, 3 or 4 train to the Brooklyn Museum stop
and head to Crownside (formerly Bar Corvo), the sister restaurant to Park Slope’s beloved Al Di La Trattoria.
A former warehouse district, Dumbo — or Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass
— houses some of Brooklyn’s most beloved bookstores and art galleries.
For a more cerebral evening, try Littlefield, a performance and art space in a 6,200-square-foot 1920s textile warehouse in Gowanus
that hosts big-name comedy acts like Wyatt Cenac, live-band karaoke and a cocktail menu by the mixologist Tona Palomino of the Wylie Dufresne restaurant WD-50, which closed in 2014.
But south of Williamsburg, the borough’s character — both boisterous and architecturally beautiful, worldly with working-class roots — remains.
