Things to Do in Brooklyn This Weekend

Oct 9–12 · 140 picks hand‑checked by Stumblday against organizer pages · 1 free in the top 10 · updated Oct 8

The 10 best things to do in Brooklyn this weekend (Oct 9–12)

  1. Indigenous Peoples' Day School Holiday in Prospect Park — Mon, Oct 12, 10am–5pm · Prospect Park
  2. 31st Annual Panamanian Day Parade in Crown Heights — Saturday, October 10 · Crown Heights
  3. 19th Annual Bushwick Film Festival — October 7–11 · Single-day pass $60 · Williamsburg
  4. Hewa Rwanda–Letter to the absent — Oct 7–11 · Tickets from $40 · Fort Greene
  5. 44th Annual Brooklyn Columbus Day Parade — Saturday 1pm–4pm · Brooklyn
  6. Don Omar: The Last King World Tour at Barclays Center — Saturday Oct 10, 8pm (doors one hour earlier)
  7. Brand New: The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me 20th Anniversary — Monday Oct 12, 8pm · Prospect Heights
  8. Musical Parade to Celebrate New School Opening — Sunday 11am–1pm · Brooklyn
  9. New York African Restaurant Week Festival — Oct 9–11, 12–7pm daily · Free · Bedford-Stuyvesant
  10. Empire Skate of Mind Rooftop Roller Rink — Sep 26–Apr 11, 2027; weekends 10am–5pm · Museum admission $15 · Crown Heights
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31st Annual Panamanian Day Parade in Crown HeightsFranklin Avenue (Little Panamá), Crown Heights, BrooklynBeyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Saturday, October 10, 2026 — parade steps off at 10:30am at Franklin Avenue & Bergen Street

31st Annual Panamanian Day Parade in Crown Heights

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Brooklyn's Little Panamá hosts the biggest Panamanian parade outside Panama, with polleras, drum corps and a street festival.

ParadePanamanian heritageStreet festival
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Don Omar: The Last King World Tour at Barclays CenterBarclays Center, Prospect Heights / Atlantic Terminal, BrooklynTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Saturday · Oct 10, 2026, 8pm (doors one hour earlier)Ticketed (via Ticketmaster)

Don Omar: The Last King World Tour at Barclays Center

Prospect Heights / Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn

Reggaeton royalty Don Omar brings The Last King World Tour to Brooklyn for a Barclays arena night in the thick of Hispanic Heritage Month.

ReggaetonArena showHispanic Heritage Month

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MythilyMythily, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
New restaurant · open this weekend

Mythily

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Stuffed eggplant curry and tilefish in mango curry at Top Chef alum Rasika Venkatesa's 45-seat Tamil restaurant, new to Williamsburg.

New openingSouth IndianWilliamsburg
#20New restaurant · open this weekend · Limited Run
MythilyMythily, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
New openingSouth Indian

Mythily

Stuffed eggplant curry and tilefish in mango curry at Top Chef alum Rasika Venkatesa's 45-seat Tamil restaurant, new to Williamsburg.

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About this list

Stumblday's 140 hand-checked picks for Oct 9–12: the best of Brooklyn this weekend — parks, piers, shows, and street feasts.

This list is the borough's slice of the hand-checked weekend board, ranked so what leads is what is distinct to Brooklyn that weekend — street feasts in Bensonhurst, markets in Fort Greene, free shows in the parks — rather than the citywide marquees you have already seen everywhere else.

FAQ

When is "this weekend"?

This list covers the weekend of Oct 9–12, 2026, and it refreshes automatically every week.

Does this cover the whole borough or just the waterfront neighborhoods?

The whole borough. Picks are ranked on merit, so waterfront and Prospect Heights events show up often, but street festivals in Bensonhurst, markets in Flatbush, and park programs from Sunset Park to Canarsie earn slots the same way.

How is this different from the main NYC board?

Same hand-checked board, filtered to events in Brooklyn — then re-led so the top picks are things distinct to the borough that weekend instead of the citywide headliners that lead the main page.

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