Brooklyn is not the borough for a generic “DJ night.” The right room can turn a random Friday into house, techno, disco, global sounds, sweaty dancing, a rooftop set, or a night where you suddenly learn your friend has surprisingly strong opinions on sound systems. These are the venues worth checking before you decide where the night is going.

Some galleries ask you to stare at a painting. Aliume Art Gallery asks you to see it again under a completely different reality. Alex Aliume’s Bushwick space is a public immersive gallery built around luminescent paintings and kinetic sculptures that change across standard light, ultraviolet light, 3D viewing, and darkness.

Bushwick does not need to announce that it takes art seriously. The studios, warehouse floors, opening-night crowds, and beautifully strange work do that just fine. These three galleries make a great art crawl for anyone who wants to see work that feels more experimental than a predictable Chelsea afternoon.

Alright northern brooklynites who love a good laugh this one is for you. Having performed around these parts myself, here are the my best comedy clubs and lounges off the L train.

Imagine all the diversity of design you get in Williamsburg cafes without them being completely cooked and booked up by yuppies and influencers. Well this is, Bushwick. Not to say that Bushwick doesn't have influencers. Just not the ones that make you want to pull your hair out. Bushwick has originality. And if there's a place where that originality takes roots it's the book stores that double as wine bars and triple as cafes. It's a vintages stores the whip up a mean sesame matcha alongside reliable wifi.

It’s one thing to offer a sports bar in a place where there aren’t many. It’s another thing to take the elements of a good one and enhance them without losing that approachable dive bar charm, as often becomes the case. Well Eric and his team struck the balance perfectly. And their menu DOES NOT disappoint.

Ahh, Bushwick. Where the HBO Girls ran rampant on daddy's money to quickly turn a place where Maria Hernandez inspiringly fought to protect her neighborhood into an urban oasis of dive bars and dime bags for Chads and Brads. But those businesses certainly committed, because Bushwick might just have become the best pound-for-pound fighter on the bar crawl scene in NY, if not the North East. So let's crawl 'em all across the Top 10 best happy hours.