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W
ith Brooklyn home to a number of new
food halls and a smattering of projects
in the works, selecting a top contender from
New York’s hottest and hippest borough
wasn’t an easy task. The roughly 40,000 sf
Food Hall at Industry City continues to add
vendors while that project (and the Sunset
Park neighborhood in which it is located)
keeps reinventing itself. But ultimately we
settled on the industrial chic setting (in its
past life it was a Studebaker service station)
of Berg’n in Crown Heights.
At roughly 9,000 sf, Berg’n is technically one
of the smaller food hall venues on our list,
although the square footage refers only to the
actual food and beer hall space itself. Berg’n’s
creators are the same folks behind
Smorgasburg (the seasonal food hall concept
that has been a staple of Brooklyn’s trendy
Williamsburg neighborhood for the past few
years) as well as Brooklyn Flea (the outdoors
flea market concept that now has multiple
seasonal locations in the borough).
Berg’n combines two of the hottest trends in
food retail in one space: the food hall and
microbreweries with three primary vendors—
Mighty Mighty Quinn’s, Landhaus and
Lumpia Shack.
Berg’n
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