Brooklyn-based indie faves The National will take the stage tonight at Radio City Music Hall to a sold-out crowd in support of their new album, High Violet. For the Love of Brooklyn has an extra pair of tickets to the show and is itching to give them away to one lucky reader.
Leave a comment on this post and tell us: what’s your favorite thing to do in Brooklyn during the summertime? Is it seeing free shows at Prospect Park? Biking to the shore and enjoying Coney Island? Rocking out to sweaty shows at Union Pool or strolling the streets of Ditmas Park?
The winner will be selected and emailed at 4pm. You must be able to pick up the tickets in DUMBO before 7pm or meet up at Radio City by 7:45pm.
Good luck!
* PRIZE: Two tickets to see The National TONIGHT (6/16, 8pm) at Radio City Music Hall.
* TO ENTER: Comment on this post and tell us your favorite thing to do in Brooklyn in the summertime!
* GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, June 16th at 4pm EST
* HOW IT WORKS: One entry per e-mail address permitted.
Kruger
2 months ago
Wooo! Giveaway #1. Who will be the lucky winner?
What is a Brooklyn summer without swimming in the Gowanus??
Also, sitting in my Brooklyn apartment being ready to pounce on new post comment sections saying FIRST!
Matt
2 months ago
BBQs in brooklyn backyards, rooftops, front stoops and parks.
Kate
2 months ago
Bike riding around Prospect Park
Ashley
2 months ago
drinking beers outdoors and going to see awesome shows.
TMG
2 months ago
bowling, bbq, beverages, backyards
JT
2 months ago
Celebrate Brooklyn shows
Marcie Paper
2 months ago
anything involving coney island and a bicycle!
Maya
2 months ago
I heart summer in Prospect Park—free shows, cookouts, and plenty of pickup soccer games.
Kyle
2 months ago
I love weekend brunch in Brooklyn.
Dominika
2 months ago
Rooftop films & Free Summer Shows!
ACR
2 months ago
Free Brooklyn concerts, random street fairs, exploring new ‘hoods via bike.
Katie
2 months ago
Anything that involves sitting outside, drinking booze and ogling passers-by.
Rosie
2 months ago
Walking and just taking in the energy of Brooklyn. Wandering along the waterfront, through the parks, to tons of shows, BBQs, anywhere and everywhere.
Adin
2 months ago
laying out, picnicking and reading in prospect park
MBH
2 months ago
Celebrate Brooklyn concerts, outdoor eating at faves Pacifico and Habana Outpost, and general Prospect Park frivolity!
Chelsea
2 months ago
Spending the day walking around the neighborhood & seeing what there is to discover!
Kat
2 months ago
Brooklyn botanical garden!
cat
2 months ago
steve’s authentic key lime pies. eaten on rooftops and brooklyn backyards, often accompanied by red hook lobster pound rolls. also: long afternoons at zombie hut & gowanus yacht club, amazing free concerts & movies, nice running routes.
Juston
2 months ago
Two very important words: Pies and Thighs.
Joe
2 months ago
Drinking beers and catching free shows is what Brooklyn’s all about.
Carly
2 months ago
Parks, parks, parks!! That’s the best thing about BKLN in the summertime :)
Katie
2 months ago
Peruse loads of “For the Love of Brooklyn” goodness on my laptop at my favorite BK coffee shops (including, but not limited to: Tiny Cup in Bed Stuy, Outpost in Clinton Hill, and Flying Saucer in Boerum Hill).
amy
2 months ago
booze in paper bags on billyburg rooftops. while wearing a flannel and jorts. and sporting an ironic moustache. def totes.
Erica
2 months ago
bbqs on our balcony and beer gardens!
Stephen Elliott
2 months ago
Bike down to Prospect Park to watch some Celebrate Brooklyn shows, and then go for a nice pint at an outdoor drinking establishment.
Anna
2 months ago
Siren Fest at Coney Island.
Mike
2 months ago
backyard BBQ, bourbon and beer
Jason
2 months ago
your mom.
Tom
2 months ago
Getting some red hook lobster pound and having a big cookout with friends on a roof deck, without a doubt the best thing you could do ANYWHERE, but especially in Brooklyn!
Cher
2 months ago
Brooklyn is so diverse that my favorite thing to do is to fill my Saturday with back-to-back events. I start by walking from my house to Prospect Park for a 2 loop run early morning. I catch all the regulars even – the resident retired professional walkers and runners and wave a hello and stop for a small chat. I return home, grab a vegan energy bar from eat, drink, smile Naidre’s. Then I hop on the G to Clinton Washington and make a cameo at the Fort Greene Flea as an early bird attendee. See all my locals, buy and support my DIYers, by now its lunchtime at the flea and I’m sampling that GOODNESS. I head home and decide to walk it, and take 5th avenue south and hit the string of vintage stores (Beacons, Governors, Odd Twin Trading) to continue my never ending search for the perfect vintage pair of blue jeans.
I drop off my goods, take a nap. I wake up head to South Slope coffee for their amazing soy latte, stop at a friends on the way back, return home to do a little Saturday surfing and blog reading before I go hit an indie music spot just about anywhere in this fabulous borough of ours!
Aaron
2 months ago
Napping in the park!
stacey
2 months ago
walking the pup in the park
Meg
2 months ago
Taking a long run to Coney Island and finish off with a chili-dog and beer.
Andrew
2 months ago
Love going to “Beer Island” on Coney Island, then checking out the Thursday night concerts!
Catherine
2 months ago
A perfect weekday night is a self-made picnic complete with smuggled wine at Celebrate Brooklyn. A perfect Saturday is riding to Red Hook, having a muffaletta at Fort Defiance, then shopping all the cool stores in the hood.
Alanna
2 months ago
$15 unlimited drunk brunch at Lovin’Cup followed by vintage clothes hunt at Beacon’s Closet. Bonus if The National is playing on the sound system of either of those establishments.
Winnie
2 months ago
corn and margaritas @ habana outpost!!!
Leslie
2 months ago
Siren Music Festival!
Mo
2 months ago
Free concerts in the park, free walking in the park and reading through websites that want to give me free tickets!
Matt Haggerty
2 months ago
One of my favorite summer time things to do in Brooklyn is enjoy a beer and dodgeball at the pool party shows.
Hannah
2 months ago
I love being in Prospect Park, relaxing, watching everyone enjoying themselves in the beautiful setting doing things they love to do :)
Martha
2 months ago
Roof parties!
Christina C.
2 months ago
BBQ, flea market, Brunch, Bike tour…Beer Garden.
t to the money
2 months ago
brooklyn summertime
drunken bike pizza park heat
haiku for music!
anne
2 months ago
bbq, rooftop hang outs, pick up games at prospect
Steve
2 months ago
Eating the pizza!
Vish
2 months ago
I’m new to Brooklyn, so there’s a plethora of unexplored neighborhoods for for a spontaneous trip whenever I feel like it. So far, I am partial to strolling around Park Slope and Prospect Park.
Vivian
2 months ago
BBQ in prospect park
meghan
2 months ago
Brooklyn Rooftop BBQs
sam
2 months ago
Backyard barbecues at my place, kiddie pools, pogo stick jumping, bike rides as far as I can pedal, bus rides to Jersey, checking out all of the beaches accessible by public transport and bike, free shows and movie screenings, home made ice coffee (cold brewed please) and ice pops–especially four loko ice pops, the never ending search for a mate with an air conditioner, and so on, et cetera.