Brooklyn Book Festival

Name: Brooklyn Book Festival
Start: 2026-09-27
End: 2026-09-27
Location: Brooklyn Borough Hall

Brooklyn, NY · Arts & Culture

When: September 27, 2026
Where: Brooklyn Borough Hall · Brooklyn · NY
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Downtown Brooklyn's outdoor literary festival gathers hundreds of authors, small presses, and readers around Brooklyn Borough Hall for a full day of panels and a sprawling book market. Founded in 2006, it now anchors a week of citywide programming and draws one of the largest free book festival crowds in the country.

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Downtown Brooklyn's outdoor literary festival gathers hundreds of authors, small presses, and readers around Brooklyn Borough Hall for a full day of panels and a sprawling book market.
Brooklyn Borough Hall, city hall of an independent Brooklyn0.1 mi
Calvin Pollard and Gamaliel King raised this Greek Revival block of Tuckahoe marble as the city hall of Brooklyn, then a separate city, finishing it in 1848.
Packer Collegiate Institute rises from the Brooklyn Female Academy fire0.1 mi
A committee of Brooklynites opened the Brooklyn Female Academy on Joralemon Street in 1845, and within a few years it was teaching 350 girls drawn from nineteen states.
Gage and Tollner keeps its gaslights through an Arby's and back0.2 mi
Charles Gage opened a restaurant on Fulton Street in 1879 and took Eugene Tollner in as a partner the following year.
The New York Transit Museum opens in an abandoned subway station0.2 mi
Court Street station opened in 1936 as a terminal for local trains and hardly anyone used it, so the shuttle serving it was dropped in 1946 and the platforms sat dark for thirty years.