CHR Radar Brooklyn | CHR Radar Brooklyn: House, Hip-Hop, Vinyl + Dance - Sept 11–13
Brooklyn is about the dance floor as cultural archive: veteran selectors, soulful house, hip-hop lineage, Arab/SWANA club culture, dancers and outdoor community gatherings.
The Floor Remembers
1. ⭐ CHR PICK: 33rd Annual Clubhouse Jamboree
Sunday, September 13 | Noon–7 PM | Music Pagoda, Prospect Park
This is the strongest CHR event in either city this weekend.
The Clubhouse Jamboree returns for its 33rd year, with DJ Desi, Ian Rock, K.tea, Mark Francis and DJ Spinna, plus a live performance from Keith Thompson. Organizers describe it as one of Prospect Park’s largest house-music gatherings, drawing dancers and house fans from well beyond New York.
Brooklyn Magazine calls it the city’s longest-running free outdoor house music event.
Why CHR: House music as community rather than commodity. Generations, dancers, selectors and neighborhood culture sharing one outdoor floor.
2. The Originals: Rich Medina + Stretch Armstrong + Tony Touch
Sunday, September 13 | 4–10 PM | 314 Scholes Courtyard
Three 🔥🔥🔥 selectors with enormous NYC musical vocabulary play a six-hour outdoor set, with the event explicitly centered on house, hip-hop, deep cuts and dance-floor culture.
Why CHR: Rich Medina, Stretch Armstrong and Tony Touch represent precisely the kind of DJ culture CHR should keep foregrounding: selectors whose credibility comes from musical knowledge across scenes rather than one genre silo.
3. EveryBody Loves Roy Ayers: DJ Spinna + DJ Tahleim
Saturday, September 12 | 8 PM–2:30 AM | SpinnaVerse BK, location supplied to ticket holders
DJ Spinna and DJ Tahleim devote the evening to Roy Ayers’ musical legacy, connecting jazz, soul, R&B, rare groove, hip-hop sampling and dance culture. DJ Spinna’s own site confirms the September 12 event, while RA lists it as a ticketed 21+ party with the venue disclosed after purchase.
Why CHR: This is musical archaeology that still dances. A Roy Ayers night lets younger club culture encounter the records underneath decades of hip-hop, soul and house.
4. 718 Sessions: Danny Krivit
Sunday, September 13 | 3–10 PM | LoHi Rooftop, 314 Scholes
Danny Krivit closes the outdoor 718 Sessions season on a wood dance floor, with seven hours devoted to the kind of soulful house and disco continuum that has made 718 Sessions a New York dance institution.
Why CHR: The important word here is dancers. This is a room, or in this case a roof, designed around people who know what a long DJ set feels like physically.
There is also a deliciously Brooklyn logistical wrinkle: The Originals and 718 Sessions are listed at the same 314 Scholes address at overlapping times, one in the courtyard and the other on the rooftop. Treat them as separate events and separate entry situations, but editorially this makes 314 Scholes a remarkable little vertical ecosystem on Sunday.
5. Laylit: 8 Year Anniversary
Saturday, September 12 | 5 PM–4 AM | Elsewhere, Bushwick
Laylit takes over Elsewhere’s entire venue with programming across the rooftop, hall, Zone One, loft and chatroom. The collective centers music from the Arab/SWANA region and diaspora, mixing shaabi, dabke, mahraganat, Arabic pop and hip-hop with techno, breakbeat and contemporary club music. Dance also enters directly through Fadi Khoury / FJK Dance.
Why CHR: This is exactly what multicultural nightlife can look like when a community defines its own club language rather than being booked as an exotic side room.
6. 💃 Sole Therapy
Sunday, September 13 | 7 PM–midnight | Dead Letter No. 9, Williamsburg
This one feels almost written for the Radar brief.
Sole Therapy began at Black Flamingo in 2018 and describes itself as a gathering for dancers, friends and music lovers, built around movement and deep groove. Sunday features KAYO, Matt Atkinson, DJ Marc and Kimchi, plus a performance by Kimblee, across house and disco.
Why CHR: No velvet-rope mythology required. The core proposition is music + bodies + collective release.
🎭 Brooklyn Movement Wildcard: From Sky to Earth
Saturday, September 12 | 5 PM | MADE Bush Terminal
Jazz saxophonist James Brandon Lewis performs a live improvised score while French vertical-dance pioneer Antoine Le Menestrel moves across the building façade at MADE Bush Terminal. It is a world premiere.
This is not nightlife, but it is quintessentially CHR Radar once “movement” is allowed to mean more than dancing in front of a DJ.
Brooklyn also on the antenna
Everyday People NYC closes its New York season at Elsewhere on Sunday from 4 PM to midnight. Especially CHR-friendly is the Loft Vinyl Room with Snips and Been Blackin, alongside a much larger hip-hop-focused program across the venue.
For Afro-house, DESCENDANTS at SILO on Saturday brings Kitty Amor, Brooklyn-native Donis, Pizzi and Meedy across Afro house, Afro tech, 3-step and gqom.
