20 of the Best After Work Events Happening Around Brooklyn This Week: 9.25.17 – 9.28.17
It's officially fall, which means better weather and even better after work events.
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The Great DUMBO Drop: A Block Party on Washington Street
Washington Street between Front and Plymouth Streets
Time: 5pm – 8pm
FREE
For the first time ever, there will be an epic, FREE, block party on Washington Street, the most photographed block in Brooklyn. Tasty bites from your favorite neighborhood restaurants + family activites for kids+kidults + live performances + an instant photoboth printing your perfect #WashingtonStreetSelfie + a bar inside the legendary Gleason’s Gym.
Taste of Iceland in NYC: Cocktail Class
136 Metropolitan Avenue at Nitehawk Cinema
Time: 5:30pm – 6:30pm
FREE
At this year’s Taste of Iceland in New York City, join Brennivin cocktail champion Kári Sigurðsson and National Reyka Vodka Brand Ambassador Trevor Schneider for an Icelandic cocktail class at the Nitehawk Cinema’s Lo-Res Bar before catching the Shortfish film screening. This unique class will include interactive tutorials on how to make delicious craft cocktails, featuring recipes that combine traditional Icelandic concoctions with locally-crafted spirits. Trevor and Kári will give class-goers an introduction to Reyka and its distillery process. The class is free and first-come, first-served. Must be 21+ to participate.
Book Talk: “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971”
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8pm
Price: $5 (FREE for members)
Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in History, Heather Ann Thompson shares the complicated and gripping tale of the five-day prison uprising, as well as the muddied investigations, lawsuits, and untold stories that followed.
Art History Happy Hour
200 Eastern Parkway at Brooklyn Museum
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Price: $25
Enjoy wine, beer, and fun art history and Egyptology lectures in celebration of new exhibit Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt.
The 2017 Miss Subways Extravaganza
370 Metropolitan Avenue at The City Reliquary Museum
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Price: $20
Inspired by The City Reliquary’s 2009 “Miss G Train Pageant,” and with a wink and a nod to the Miss Subways events held in NYC between 1941 and 1976, The 2017 Miss Subways Extravaganza is a call to arms for advocates and lovers of the NYC underground. In a night of performances spanning the classy, the trashy, the weird, and the whimsical, contestants will demonstrate their love, frustration, and ultimate devotion to their subway line of choice. Beverages available by suggested donation, with beer courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery.
