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What a night out costs in Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO

A night out with friends in Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO costs a median of $49.65 per person, tax and tip included. That is $0.35 less than the citywide median of $50, which makes Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO the 14th most expensive of the 41 New York neighborhoods with enough tables to price.

Cost per person
$49.65
city median $50
Median cocktail
$16
city median $16
Busiest night
Sunday
when the check lands
Most shared dish
Guacamole
split 45.5% of the time

What Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO drinks

The drink that sets Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO apart is the aperol spritz. It turns up on 14.1% of tables here against 7% across the city, which is 2.0 times the citywide rate.

Wine
27.7% here · 20% city
Beer
22.6% here · 23.4% city
Aperol spritz
14.1% here · 7% city
Spirit
13% here · 19.6% city
Diet cola
11.3% here · 8.1% city
Espresso martini
11.3% here · 8.8% city

Share of tables here that ordered each, against the same share across the city.

Where groups go in Downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO

The spots where the most different groups have split a check, in order. This measures where groups go, not quality and not price.

  1. 1TALEA Beer Co.$44.25
  2. 2Dumbo House$54.01
  3. 3Rucola$75.18
  4. 4Cecconi's Dumbo
  5. 5Barbalu Brooklyn
  6. 6Sound + Fury Brewery and Kitchen

Where it sits

Walk to Brooklyn Heights, where the median is $37.05, Fort Greene, where the median is $47.14 and Chinatown, where the median is $43.52 and the same night costs less.

Method

How these numbers were made

Every figure comes from itemized restaurant and bar receipts that groups split on Splyt between January 2023 and September 2026. A table is a receipt with two or more people where at least 80% of the bill was claimed; cost per person is the full total including tax and tip, divided by the people on the receipt. All figures are medians.

A neighborhood is shown only when at least 30 tables from at least 15 different groups back it, a restaurant only when at least 5 different groups split a check there, and a signature drink only when at least 20 tables back it and it runs at least 1.4 times the citywide rate. Splyt does not publish how many receipts, tables or groups sit behind a figure. These are groups who split a check with an app, mostly tables of three to seven, not a random sample of New York diners.

The full method and the map of all 45 neighborhoods