The Best FREE Things to Do in Brooklyn

Free things to do in Brooklyn

Find upcoming events in your neighborhood

Find fun free things to do

Post an Event

Saturday July 12, 2025

Various

Nature Exploration: Lake Appreciation

Ages: All
Environment
Family
Free

Prospect Park Audubon Center

ACX_7450

8 am – 3 pm

Maria Hernandez Farmers Market

Maria Hernandez ParkBushwick

Invisible Strings Front

10 am – 5 pm

“Invisible Strings”, a group exhibition featuring six gallery- represented artists.

Free

Philadelphia

Free Kayaking

10 am – 4 pm

Free Kayaking

Ages: All
Family
Free
Sports

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 4 BeachBrooklyn Heights

10:50 am – 7 pm

göt2b Emergency Box Machine

Ages: All
Beauty
Family
Free

240810+Yang_FAD+Market+-+Empire+Stores-48 (1)

11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Summer Pop-up [Dumbo]

Empire StoresDUMBO

RSK picture

11 am – noon

Ready, Set, Kindergarten! at the Sheepshead Bay Library

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Free

Brooklyn Public Library Sheepshead BaySheepshead Bay

Noon – 9 pm

Brooklyn Army Terminal Summer Series Carnaval de Chilenos & Tecuanos

Ages: All
Family
Festivals
Free

Brooklyn Army Terminal

Screenshot 2025-07-01 at 11.42.02 AM

Noon – 4:30 pm

Wotagei Workshop

The 2nd Floor of Japan Village

banner_8f73f3

3 – 5 pm

Community Science Seining

Ages: All
Caribbean
Family
Free

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 4 Beach

untitled-205_ca1727

3 – 4:30 pm

Art Talk

Art
Free

Transmitter GalleryBushwick

Sunday July 13

banner_ed3ad3

Various

Waterfront Walks

Ages: All
Family
Free
Tours

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Various

Nature Exploration: Lake Appreciation

Ages: All
Environment
Family
Free

Prospect Park Audubon Center

Invisible Strings Front

10 am – 5 pm

“Invisible Strings”, a group exhibition featuring six gallery- represented artists.

Free

Philadelphia

10:50 am – 7 pm

göt2b Emergency Box Machine

Ages: All
Beauty
Family
Free

240810+Yang_FAD+Market+-+Empire+Stores-48 (1)

11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Summer Pop-up [Dumbo]

Empire StoresDUMBO

Free Kayaking

Noon – 3:30 pm

Free Kayaking

Ages: All
Family
Free
Sports

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 4 BeachBrooklyn Heights

FABID_2014 Fair Ride King Kong ADG PR (1)

12:30 – 5 pm

Flatbush Avenue Street Fair

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

Flatbush Avenue Street FairFlatbush

Screen Shot 2025-06-30 at 3.42.04 PM

3 – 4:30 pm

William May ‘Blaze Without Burning’ Q&A and Reading

Pete’s Candy StoreWilliamsburg

Monday July 14

Invisible Strings Front

10 am – 5 pm

“Invisible Strings”, a group exhibition featuring six gallery- represented artists.

Free

Philadelphia

10:50 am – 7 pm

göt2b Emergency Box Machine

Ages: All
Beauty
Family
Free

Tuesday July 15

banner_ed3ad3

Various

Waterfront Walks

Ages: All
Family
Free
Tours

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Invisible Strings Front

10 am – 5 pm

“Invisible Strings”, a group exhibition featuring six gallery- represented artists.

Free

Philadelphia

DominoMovie_9-24-24_JulienneSchaer-137

4 – 9:30 pm

Movie Nights in the Square

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Film
Free

Domino ParkWilliamsburg

banner_10cb40

5 – 7 pm

Free Youth Basketball Clinics

Ages: 5 and up
Classes
Family
Free

Brooklyn Bridge Park

July Authors image

7 – 9 pm

Brooklyn Books & Booze Reading Series

Barrow’s Intense Tasting RoomIndustry City

8 – 10 pm

The Overthinking Hour Comedy Show

HalyardsPark Slope/Gowanus

473682186_10162703385645477_5403402747570514986_n

8:30 – 10:30 pm

The Roast of Gram Parsons

Free
Music

Pete’s Candy ShopWilliamsburg

Wednesday July 16

Invisible Strings Front

10 am – 5 pm

“Invisible Strings”, a group exhibition featuring six gallery- represented artists.

Free

Philadelphia

Broadway_Magic_Hour_NYC_9squaure

2 – 3:30 pm

FREE Broadway Magic Hour show to support Brooklyn YMCA in July

Ages: 3 and up
Comedy
Community
Family

Park Slope Armory YMCAPark Slope

Free Kayaking

5 – 7 pm

Free Kayaking

Ages: All
Family
Free
Sports

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 4 BeachBrooklyn Heights

+ Export Events

More from Around NYC

ridgewood

Ridgewood mother and daughter arrested for attacking woman over parking spot: NYPD

Relatives of Allan Feliz and supporters marched from NYPD headquarters to City Hall on Friday, calling on Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to fire the officer who fatally shot Feliz during a 2019 traffic stop in the Bronx.

‘A slap to the face’: Family urges NYPD Commissioner to reverse decision letting officer who killed Bronx man stay on force

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens at a Make Oklahoma Healthy Again kickoff event at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. June 26, 2025.

RFK abruptly cancels meeting of task force responsible for determining preventive services

NY: A Night at Niblo’s Garden – Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery honors William Niblo with sold-out Victorian spectacle