Riis Park Beach Bazaar

Jacob Riis Beach is probably the best beach accessible by train in NYC. Coney Island and Brighton Beach are okay but Jacob Riis is much larger and cleaner. Now Jacob Riis Beach has even more pros since they opened a food and goods bazaar. The vendors are pretty good, My favorite vendors are Wild Feast which sells fresh seafood and Ample Hills Creamery which sells ice cream. There's also Brooklyn Star which sells fried chicken in waffle cones. You can also get fresh coconuts. The food options are definitely a lot better than other beaches in NYC. They also have live music on Saturdays and Sundays.

Too crowded for a beach. Easy to park (if you can call parking that can be 15 minutes from the beach parking lot),but cost money. I wouldn't come to the beach on a weekend, since it is everything but relaxed beach, and missing the point (For my opinion).

Totally overrated.. Food wasn't bad but also wasn't great. Expensive for the amount of food , my friends taco was small and he said it was dry. Also a pathetic attempt to make RIIS a hip place.

Jacob Riis is really crowded. Traffic is backed up for a least a mile just to enter the parking lot and backed up from the parking lot all the way to the entrance to the belt when you leave. The Brooklyn Night Bazaar brought some good food and music to the beach but the lines are long, and the food is expensive and selection is limited. The sound quality of the music is terrible at the beach because of the wind. You can only hear it when you're on the boardwalk. When you're on the beach, you only hear annoying thumping noise. There are some vendors selling things but I don't shop when I'm at the beach. The beach itself is dirty and run down. You can get better food and hear better music all over Brooklyn. Go to a nicer beach and save the food and music for later.

Long lines but the food was great.