Downtown Brooklyn

Spin & Shine: Chanukkah Celebration
2025-12-17 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Join Atlantic Terminal Mall for a festive Chanukkah Celebration. Gather with family and friends to celebrate the joyous Festival of Lights. Immerse yourself in the vibrant atmosphere as they light the Chanukah menorah and sing traditional songs. Enjoy delicious sufganiyot, chocolate gelt, and other Chanukah treats.
Experience the excitement of Chanukah games and activities for all ages!

Santa Land at Atlantic Terminal
2025-12-17 11:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-16 11:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-15 11:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-14 11:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-13 11:00 - 19:00
Get ready for a magical holiday experience at Santa Land all December long, located on the main level of Atlantic Terminal near McDonald’s. Santa Land is the ultimate destination for festive fun, where families can meet Santa, capture memorable photos, and celebrate the joy of the season.
Come Join Santa & Friends on Saturday, December 6 from 12pm-4pm for Brooklyn’s 6th Annual SANTA LAND PARADE!!!
See link to register and for schedule of specific events.

Exhibition | Poetics of the Photographic: Language of Resistance
2025-12-17 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-16 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-13 11:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-12 11:00 - 18:00
Poetics of the Photographic: Language of Resistance brings together artists who push photography beyond its material limits, using its grammar of light, index, and trace to examine how images operate as tools of investigation and interrogation—means through which histories are not only recorded but actively contested.

GOLFZON Social's Football Watch Parties
2025-12-17, 2025-12-16, 2025-12-15, 2025-12-14, 2025-12-13
Catch every college and pro game this season on Golfzon’s massive screens, with unbeatable food and drink specials that keep the energy high from kickoff to the final whistle.
Game Day Lineup:
🍗 $45 Beer & Wing Combos – A winning play for any fan.
🍺 $5 Domestic Drafts – All game, every game.
🍻 $20 Bucket Deals – Share the love (or don’t).
🔥 Tailgate Platters – 24 wings + 2 beer buckets.
📅 Fantasy Football Draft Night Specials – Private room discounts for your league.
🥳 Happy Hour Pricing All Game Long – Score big on drinks & apps.

Glass in Context: Part 1
2025-12-16 18:00 - 19:30
The history of glass is a rich resource, a tool to help facilitate the realization of ideas, as valuable as a blowpipe, kiln, pencil or paper. Knowledge of the field also helps to locate work in an historical context as well as assisting in the understanding of contemporary practice and issues. What is common to all types of glass is its inherent fluidity, which has always given glass objects their unique quality. As a result of these properties, glass has had, and still has, the widest application of any material. Through a series of presentations, this class will look at some of these applications throughout history, including domestic, sculptural, and architectural.
Part 1: From Egypt to Venice
Week 1: September 23 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM
And Then There Was Glass: Egypt, Greece, Rome
Week 2: October 28 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Medieval Glass: Forest glass, Frankish glass, early Venetian glass
Week 3: November 18 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Glass and Islam: Sassasian and Islamic Glass, and the Rise of Venice
Week 4: December 16 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM
North of the Alps: Northern European Glass
Part 2 will be offered in 2026.

The Brooklyn Nutcracker
2025-12-14 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-13 15:00 - 17:00
A re-imagined holiday classic that celebrates the diversity of our borough, The Brooklyn Nutcracker fuses ballet, hip-hop, and a rich tapestry of global dance genres to create a new family tradition for the modern era.
Photo: Kyle Froman

Movers and Makers: Family Tour + Workshop
2025-12-14 14:00 - 17:00
Explore at Movers and Makers, the Transit Museum’s monthly family workshop series! Tour select exhibitions, dive into a new transit-themed topic or museum story, and get creative together in their makerspace with hands-on art and design projects. Museum admission is included in the price of the workshop.
Dates

November 09, 2:00 – 5:00 PM | Tickets
December 14, 2:00 – 5:00 PM | Tickets

The Lay Out Holiday Pop-Up Market
2025-12-14 13:00 - 18:00, 2025-12-13 13:00 - 18:00
Atlantic Terminal is spotlighting Brooklyn’s own Black-owned small businesses, from handmade goods and artisanal treats to skincare, apparel, home essentials, and more. It’s the perfect chance to shop local, meet the makers, and support the incredible entrepreneurs who shape Brooklyn’s creative culture. Join The Lay Out on the ground floor of Atlantic Terminal and kick off your holiday weekend by showing love to the BK-based Black-owned brands that keep our community thriving.
Shop small. Shop local. Shop Black-owned.

Girls Gotta Eat Holiday Spectacular
2025-12-13 20:00 - 21:30
Girls Gotta Eat is a top international podcast about dating, sex, and relationships, hosted by comedic duo and real-life best friends  Ashley Hesseltine and Rayna Greenberg. Since 2018, they have been blazing the trail not only in podcasting, but in live touring with a one-of-a-kind show that has sold out over 200 theaters worldwide. The holiday show is their annual tradition, and this year it will be over the top—with never-before-heard stories, special guests, dance performances, wild crowd participation, giveaways, and top-tier holiday cheer.

Lobby Nights With Matthew Law
2025-12-13 19:00 - 2025-12-14 00:00
Matthew Law returns with a set full of soul.
Part of the Lobby Nights series at Ace Hotel Brooklyn.

The Incredible Drunkertons
2025-12-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-12 19:00 - 21:00
A satirical performance duo riffing on the best of the Groovy Seventies, Sizzle and Funk are the recovering child stars of The Drunkertons, a hit primetime television series. After the show’s cancellation five seasons in, Sizzle and Funk were barred from performing under their stage names. Legal battle behind them this December, The Incredible Drunkertons take to the stage at 651 ARTS with a festive catalog of covers and original songs.

Adulting is Hard: Graphic Novel Book Club
2025-12-13 16:00 - 17:00
Greetings, Graphic Novel Crew! Adulting is Hard is back!
Whether you only read Graphic Novels or haven’t picked up a comic since the Sunday funnies, this club’s for you! You don’t have to read all texts listed below, but come ready to engage regardless. If wait times for books are long, use your other library cards to procure books. Spread library love: it’s the Brooklyn way.
Select a date:

Saturday, November 8
Saturday, December 13

This event begins roughly 1 hour after the branch closes to the public so REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

The Met Live in HD: Andrea Chénier
2025-12-13 13:00 - 16:30
Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates.

BKLYN Holiday-topia
2025-12-13 11:00 - 15:00
Celebrate the season at CityPoint with free photos with Santa, Holiday crafts, Dreidel decorating and more!
BKLYN Holiday-topia is a festive celebration featuring free Santa family photos, holiday crafts, dreidel decorating, and merry moments for everyone — including your furry friends. Come make joyful memories and kick off the holidays — Brooklyn style! All activities will be free and on a first come, first serve basis.
Saturday, December 6 (11 am – 3 pm)

Photos with Santa
Gingerbread house crafts (not real gingerbread cookies but paper crafts)
Snow globe decorating
LEGO building
Magical appearance by the Sugar Plum Fairy from 1–3 PM

Sunday, December 7 (11 am – 3 pm)

Photos with Santa
Snowman crafts
Snow globe decorating
LEGO building

Special Pet Night: Thursday, December 11 (6 – 8 pm)
Holiday photos for furry friends and their families (must arrive with pet). This special evening is designed to capture joyful moments between pets and their people.

Saturday, December 13 (11 am – 3 pm)

Photos with Santa
Cookie decorating
LEGO building

Sunday, December 14 (11 am – 3 pm)

Photos with diverse Santa
Face painting
Dreidel decorating
Hanukkah specials
LEGO building

Please note for your Santa Studio visit:
Photography by Noémie Trusty, capturing the sparkle and joy of Brooklyn families this holiday season and beyond. Photos are available on a first-come, first-served basis. One ticket per family. One free portrait per family. Additional photos for purchase. Upon arrival, please scan the QR code on-site to join the virtual waitlist. Scanning the QR code is required to participate. This ticket does not guarantee entry.

Lobby Nights With Dane Deveraux
2025-12-12 20:00 - 2025-12-13 01:00
Dane Deveraux sets the mood from 8pm–1am!
Part of the Lobby Nights series at Ace Hotel Brooklyn.
