Spring is here at last, bringing warmer weather and a ton of exciting events for families to enjoy! Our guide, running through Memorial Day weekend, highlights the return of favorite outdoor events like Open Streets, Brooklyn Flea, and Smorgasburg, as well as vibrant celebrations for Holi, Eid, Earth Day, and Easter. Plus, there’s endless springtime fun waiting for you at Prospect Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Governors Island. Get ready for an unforgettable season of family-friendly fun!
Women’s History Celebration at Atlantic Terminal Mall | Downtown Brooklyn
Saturday, March 29 | 1-3pm | FREE
Join Brooklyn Book Bodega at Atlantic Terminal Mall for a family-friendly Women’s History Month celebration. Enjoy free books, interactive storytelling, and live magic tricks, all to honor brilliant women in science and magic!
Brooklyn Flea | DUMBO & Williamsburg
DUMBO | Open | Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-5pm
Williamsburg | Opening Day: April 6 | Sundays, 10-5pm
Brooklyn Flea is reopening for the season, located in the DUMBO Archway and Pearl Street Plaza. The flea includes a huge variety of vendors of vintage clothing, furniture, art and antiques, and more. This year, check out the new BQ Flea, under the BQE overpass in Williamsburg where Meeker Avenue meets Union Avenue and Lorimer Street. It will be open every Sunday starting April 6. Learn more here!
Luna Park | Coney Island
Opening Weekend: Saturday, March 29–Monday, March 31 | FREE admission, rides start at $4
Get ready to kick off the season at Luna Park’s opening weekend! Celebrate the arrival of warmer months with a thrilling ride on the iconic Cyclone roller coaster, plus plenty more rides for all ages. Luna Park also offers games, delicious dining options, and shopping, making it the perfect destination for a day of fun with the whole family!
Pier 2 Roller Skating Rink | Brooklyn Bridge Park
Opening Day: Friday, March 28 | 3:30-6:00pm | FREE admission, $8 skate rental
The roller skating rink at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2 is reopening for the 2025 season! Check out their calendar to see all public skate times and fun themed events, including a chance to skate with the Easter bunny coming up in April. There are also Free Admission Skates Mondays (3:30-6pm), Fridays (3:30-6pm), and Sundays (10am-12pm). Skate rentals are $8.
Prospect Park Carousel | Prospect Park
Opening Day: Friday, March 28 | 12-5pm | $3 per ride, $13 for a book of 5 tickets
After being closed all winter, the Prospect Park Carousel is reopening for the season! Take your first ride of spring on the historic carousel on Opening Day, Friday, March 28. Visit the beloved carousel from 12–5 pm on Thursday–Sunday and holidays.
Spring fun on Governors Island
It’s time to plan a spring day trip to Governors Island! The Spring 2025 schedule for South Brooklyn ferries will be effective March 31, making it even easier to get there from Brooklyn. The Yard Adventure Playground will open for the season on Saturday, March 29! The Yard is open from 12-4pm every weekend from mid-spring to mid-fall, with a suggested donation of $5/child. You can also visit The Governors Island Urban Farm, which includes GrowNYC’s Teaching Garden, a compost learning center, and a bee sanctuary. Don’t miss Slide Hill, NYC’s longest slide at 57 feet, and Hammock Grove, for a relaxing break. Save the date for a special Earth Day Celebration on April 19!
Open Streets in our neighborhoods
Open Streets programs across our neighborhoods will be back in starting in early April, offering free, family-friendly fun on car-free streets. See our full guide here, with all dates, times, and locations. Many of Brooklyn’s Open Streets programs will kick off with Car-Free Earth Day on April 26!
Brooklyn Bridge Parents family events in April
Brooklyn Bridge Parents is co-hosting various community events for families in April, partnering up with Mommy Poppins, Atlantic Terminal, City Point, Randolph and more! Come play, learn, dance and make friends with your kids in Brooklyn! Save the date for Babytopia at Atlantic Terminal Mall on Saturday, April 5, The Scenario 90’s Dance Party in Gowanus for grown-ups only the evening of April 5, Little Brunch Club at Randolph in DUMBO on Sunday, April 6, and BKLYN Easter Fest on Saturday, April 19.
Celebrate Eid Around the World at Brooklyn Children’s Museum | Crown Heights
Saturday, April 5 | 10am-5pm | $15 admission
Brooklyn Children’s Museum will celebrate the end of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr with music, dance, food, and art that honors cultural traditions from across the Muslim world. Enjoy vibrant Bangladeshi dance performances, interactive drumming, and engaging storytelling that tells the story of Eid. Plus Turkish, Kurdish, and Islamic classical music, delicious food provided by local vendors, and more!
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Celebrates Holi | Prospect Park
Sunday, April 6 | 1:00-2:30pm | FREE | $6 to purchase a packet of color
Join BKCM in celebrating Holi, the Festival of Colors, in Prospect Park! The celebration begins at 3pm with picnicking and at Long Meadow (near Grand Army Plaza). Bring a blanket and snacks and enjoy the free concert. At 4pm, attendees will be invited to join in the traditional celebration of throwing colored powder. It’s recommended that you wear white clothing and expect to get messy!
FAD Market | DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill & Williamsburg
Opening Weekend in DUMBO: Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6 | 11am – 6pm
FAD Market is back this spring, with pop-up markets at Empire Stores in DUMBO, the Center for Brooklyn History in Brooklyn Heights, St. Paul in Cobble Hill, and Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg. Check out their full lineup here!
Smorgasburg | Prospect Park & Williamsburg
Opening Weekend: Saturday, April 5 & Sunday, April 6 | 11am – 6pm
Smorgabsurg makes its return the first weekend of April, and will be located at Martha P. Johnson State Park in Williamsburg on Saturdays and Breeze Hill in Prospect Park on Sundays. Enjoy returning favorites like Tasty Darlene’s Trinidadian curry, 2 Girls Cookshop’s Jamaican jerk tacos, Mam’s Cupboard’s Thai-Vietnamese banh mi, plus exciting new arrivals including a French-Senegalese bakery, Dragon beard candy, Guatemalan coffee, Northern Chinese meat pies and much more. Stay tuned for the full lineup! Smorgasburg will be open every weekend from 11am – 6pm through the last weekend of October.
Spring nature programs in Prospect Park
Kick off the spring season with family-friendly nature activities in Prospect Park! Catch the Spring Opening at the Audubon Center on Saturday, April 5, discover Prospect Park’s bird population during the program Nature Exploration on weekends in April, and celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day. There’s so much more as the season continues, explore their full calendar here!
Spring at Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Prospect Heights
The cherry blossoms will start blooming soon at Brooklyn Botanic Garden! Use the BBG’s CherryWatch to see when trees are in full bloom and mark your calendar for Hanami Nights in late April and Weekends in Bloom in April and May. Spring First Discoveries, a program for the garden’s youngest patrons, will return Wednesday & Friday mornings, starting March 12. Brooklyn Botanic Garden admission is $18/adult, $12/students 12+ with ID, and free for children under 12.
Car-Free Earth Day | Downtown Brooklyn, Boreum Hill, Williamsburg & beyond
Saturday, April 26
Car-Free Earth Day is an annual car-free event hosted by NYC DOT, with many of our local Open Streets programs participating, including Downtown Brooklyn, Hoyt Open Streets in Boerum Hill, and Berry Open Streets in Williamsburg. Programs will include outdoor workouts, biking lessons, art installations, plant giveaway, e-waste recycling, DJs, live music, and so much more! More details forthcoming for each event!
Earth Day Festival at Fort Greene Park | Fort Greene
Saturday April 26 | 11am-2pm | FREE
Spend a fun, family-friendly day in Fort Greene Park celebrating and caring for the earth. The festival features crafts, games, workshops, and sustainable swaps for all ages. Stay tuned for a full schedule of events here!
Invent & Imagine Earth Day Celebration at Atlantic Terminal | Downtown Brooklyn
Sunday, April 27 | 12-3pm | FREE
This Earth Day event at Atlantic Terminal will celebrate our planet and spark creativity in the name of sustainability! Build new inventions using recycled and found materials with KoKo NYC and get free books with at Brooklyn Book Bodega’s sustainable book giveaway.
Celebrate Holi at Brooklyn Children’s Museum | Crown Heights
Saturday, May 3 | 10am-6:30pm | $15/person
Brooklyn Children’s Museum is keeping the colorful celebrations going a little longer this year! Their Holi festival will feature Bollywood dancing, colorful puppet shows, delicious treats, art-making, music, and, of course, pounds of color powder for the ultimate color toss. Families are encouraged to wear white and get messy as the festival will travel to neighboring Brower Park to celebrate springtime, renewal, and joy.
Montague Open Streets | Brooklyn Heights
Opening Day: May 4 | Sundays, May 4–June 29 | 10am-7pm
Montague Open Streets returns for another exciting season on Sunday, May 4. Montague Street will be car-free from Clinton Street to Hicks Street for eight Sundays (except Sunday, May 26), running through Sunday, June 29. Mark your calendars for Brooklyn Bridge Parents’ Spring Fling on Sunday, May 18. The streets will be alive with 25 free kids activities and puppet show (1 pm). We will have games, arts & crafts, soccer, face painting, building activities and obstacle course, much more. RSVP here!
Show Brooklyn Some Love Fest at CityPoint and Albee Square | Downtown Brooklyn
Saturday, May 10 | 11am-2pm | Ages 1-10 | FREE | RSVP here
Brooklyn Org, Brooklyn Bridge Parents, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and City Point will unite the community, leading cultural organizations, and nonprofits with the second free “Show Brooklyn Some Love Fest” at City Point in and Albee Square. Best for families with kids ages 1 to 10. The event will also include hip hop workshops, music making, face painting, live music, and more!
DUMBO Family Games | DUMBO
Opening Day: Sunday, May 11 | Sundays in May, June, September & October | 11am-1pm | FREE
On Sundays in May, June, September and October, join for free kids activities and a community hang on Washington Street between Water & Front Streets. Curated by the DUMBO BID x Brooklyn Bridge Parents and supported by Leaf Medical & Leaf Dental in DUMBO. This year’s DUMBO Family Games will kick off on May 11, Mother’s Day!
Willowtown Annual Spring Fair | Brooklyn Heights
Saturday, May 17 | 12-5pm | FREE
The annual Willowtown spring fair will take place on Saturday, May 17 at Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights featuring face painters, bouncy house, bake sale, magic show, games and more.
Fabulous Fifth Avenue Fair | Park Slope
Sunday, May 18 | 10am-6pm | FREE
This annual street fair on 5th Avenue in Park Slope stretches between Sterling and 12th Street and features tons of local food, shopping, art, music and family-friendly fun!
BAM DanceAfrica Festival | Fort Greene & Brooklyn Bridge Park
Friday, May 23–Monday, May 26 | Performances at BAM start at $25
The nation’s largest festival dedicated to African diasporic dance and music returns to the stages and streets of Brooklyn for its 48th year on Memorial Day weekend. In 2025, the festival will feature traditional dance and music from Mozambique. Learn more here! The Festival will feature performances on BAM’s stage, plus an outdoor bazaar in Fort Greene, a free DanceAfrica Community Class in Brooklyn Bridge Park on May 24, and more.
Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade | Bay Ridge
Monday, May 26 | 11am
A Brooklyn tradition since 1867, the Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade is considered to be the oldest continuously run Memorial Day parade in a large city in the nation. Veterans, civic groups, schools, and marching bands parade along 3rd Avenue toward the Verrazzano Bridge ending with a service honoring Veterans.
DUMBO Drop | DUMBO
Friday, May 30 | Drops at 5pm & 7pm | DUMBO Archway Party 4-7pm | $25/person
The annual DUMBO Drop including the free Brooklyn Bridge Parents Kids Zone will take place on Friday, May 30, from 4 to 7pm. Watch elephants parachute into Dumbo—for a good cause! The event supports DUMBO’s PS 307 and The Dock Street School. Presale for locals is open, get your tickets for the elephant spectacle here!
Spring produce from Brooklyn Greenmarkets and CSAs
Spring produce, plants, and flowers are returning to Brooklyn Greenmarkets, and local CSAs are opening sign-ups for the 2025 season! Check out our full guide to CSA sign-ups in our Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Outdoor and rooftop dining
As the weather warms up, we can look forward to eating outdoors again! Check out our guides to family-friendly restaurants, top brunch spots, and date night restaurants in Brooklyn, many of which will be reopening patios, rooftop spaces, and more outdoor areas for dining.
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Updated: March 22, 2025. Main Image: Cherry Esplanade at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
