Molly Tea Brooklyn: Sunset Park & Barclays Center Menus, Prices

Brooklyn has carried two Molly Tea points of sale, and they are not the same kind of place. One is a street-level shop at 5909 8th Avenue in Sunset Park. The other is a counter inside Barclays Center at 620 Atlantic Avenue, reachable only with an event ticket. The 8th Avenue shop stopped trading under the Molly Tea name after a federal court order in June 2026; its Yelp page carries a closed marker, its Chowbus ordering page is switched off, and its Uber Eats listing shows every item out of stock. Prices on record before the change ran $7.99 to $8.99 for milk teas and cream-top drinks, with brewed floral teas at $4.59.

The two Brooklyn addresses work completely differently

Almost every listing you’ll find treats these as two ordinary shops. They aren’t.

• 5909 8th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220 sits in the Sunset Park stretch of Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn’s largest Chinese commercial corridor. Walk-in, kiosk ordering, full drink list, phone (347) 599-2688. Its published hours were 11am–10pm Sunday through Thursday and 11am–11pm Friday and Saturday.
• 620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217 is the address of Barclays Center itself. There is no shopfront on the street. The tea counter sits on an arena concourse, inside security, behind a ticket.

Anyone searching “Molly Tea near Barclays Center” hoping to grab a drink on the way past Flatbush and Atlantic is searching for something that doesn’t exist at street level. That single distinction is the most useful thing on this page.

What is actually happening at 5909 8th Ave

On 8 June 2026 the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction barring the local operator from using Molly Tea’s trademarks, branding, online accounts and delivery-platform listings. Court filings reported by Columbia News Service put the brand’s claims at more than $5 million and cover trademark infringement and breach of contract. Four New York stores were named: Flushing, this Brooklyn shop, Manhattan Chinatown, and the store near Columbia University. Bloomberg photographed a Brooklyn location under the new question-mark sign on 12 June.

Here is where each channel stands today:

That last line matters. The operator’s own locations page, last updated 15 June 2026, continues to show Manhattan Chinatown, Brooklyn 8th Ave, Flushing, Columbia University and Barclays Center under the Molly Tea heading, with phone numbers attached. The signage changed faster than the web presence did. If you call (347) 599-2688 and someone answers, you have reached the same operator at the same address under different branding — not a Molly Tea store in the sense the brand now uses the term. The full background sits in our report on why the New York stores became “? Tea”.

Molly Tea near Barclays Center: what the arena counter really is

Barclays Center runs its concessions under a program it calls Brooklyn Taste, which brings neighbourhood vendors into the building. A Molly Tea counter joined that lineup in late 2025.

Two published references give slightly different locations. The operator’s site puts it near Section 117. BKMag’s arena food guide places it at Section 17 and describes a short signature list of jasmine and bubble tea drinks rather than the full shop menu. Barclays labels its stand positions by section — its Grab & Go points sit outside Sections 24, 206 and 226, and Brooklyn Craft outside Section 26 — so on event day the arena’s own venue map is the reference that settles it. Main-concourse stands fall in the low numbers.

Four practical constraints apply to this counter and to no other Molly Tea in the country:

• A ticket is required. No event, no entry, no drink.
• Hours are event hours. The counter opens when doors open and closes with the building.
• There is no re-entry. Barclays Center enforces a no re-entry policy, so you cannot step out for a drink and come back.
• The list is shortened. Arena stands carry a fraction of a full store menu.

Getting there is straightforward. Barclays Center’s transportation page names the Atlantic Terminal–Barclays Center station at Atlantic and Flatbush, plus Lafayette Avenue on the C and Fulton Street on the G, and notes the LIRR runs 20 minutes from Jamaica with late-night service generally held up to 2am for evening events. The arena is 620 Atlantic Avenue; the Atlantic Terminal shopping mall is a separate building at 139 Flatbush Avenue and 625 Atlantic Avenue, which is a common mix-up in listings.

The four stores named in the June order did not include the arena counter. Before an event, check the Barclays Center app or the venue map for the current vendor list at your section.

The Brooklyn drink prices on record

These are the prices carried on the Brooklyn store’s own delivery listings during the period it traded as Molly Tea. Treat them as a record of what Sunset Park charged, not as a live menu.

The first six come from the store’s DoorDash listing; the two brewed teas from in-store menu photography of the same period.

One detail worth keeping: Brooklyn grouped its menu differently from the categories the brand uses elsewhere. The listing ran Floral Fresh Tea 花香鲜茶, Floral Cream Top 花香云顶, Floral Signature 花香特调, Matcha 抹茶系列, Brewed Tea 花香茗茶, Toppings 小料 and Merchandise 文创周边. “Floral Cream Top” is the Snowy series under a different header, which is why some Brooklyn reviews describe a cream-top drink that appears nowhere in the brand’s US category naming.

Allergens: what the brand’s own guide lists

Molly Tea publishes an allergen guide, July 2026 edition, covering thirteen categories across its full drink catalogue. It is a genuinely useful document and almost nobody links to it. The relevant patterns:

• The core floral milk teas — Premium Jasmine, Osmanthus, White Champaca, White Champaca Oolong, Dancong, Peach Oolong, Gardenia Oolong — are marked for milk and soy.
• Every Snowy cream-top drink carries pecan alongside milk. Both pistachio coconut drinks carry pistachio. The Hazelnut Choco Lava builds carry hazelnut.
• The brewed floral teas, Premium Jasmine Iced Tea and Gardenia Iced Tea, carry no allergen marks at all — the cleanest options on the list for anyone avoiding nuts and dairy.
• Among toppings, white boba, sago, brown sugar boba and chestnut crunch pearls carry no marks. Pistachio cheese, hazelnut cheese and the jasmine whipped cream with pecan all do. Our matcha drinks guide covers how the cheese tops are built.
• The guide states plainly that shared equipment means no item can be guaranteed allergen-free.

The document also lists drinks that have never appeared on a US menu — Yongchun Bergamot Milk Tea, Premium Jasmine Grape, a salted-cheese Thai tea pair, the Velvety Matcha series, and two tea-free bubble milks. It reads as the global catalogue, not the American one.

Two ordering apps Brooklyn used that most US stores don’t

Sunset Park’s customer base pushed it onto Chinese-language delivery platforms that Bay Area and Boston stores never carried. Fantuan listed the 8th Ave store with full bilingual drink descriptions. HungryPanda ran a separate pickup queue inside the shop, and reviewers describe a split line where app orders were called out and walk-in orders sometimes sat unclaimed on the counter.

If you used either app for this store, your order history and any stored credit sit with the operator, not the brand.

Getting to 5909 8th Ave

The address is between 59th and 60th Streets on Eighth Avenue, in the middle of Brooklyn’s Chinatown. This stretch of Eighth Avenue runs through Sunset Park down toward Bay Ridge and has been a Chinese and Arabic-speaking commercial strip for decades. Sunset Park sits between Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east and Bay Ridge to the south, in ZIP code 11220.

The N train’s 8th Avenue station puts you a few blocks north; the D at 62nd Street is the other approach. Street parking on Eighth Avenue is metered and heavily contested through the afternoon. Coming from the arena, the two Brooklyn addresses are about 5 miles and 25 minutes apart by car.

If you wanted a Molly Tea in Brooklyn today

The brand’s authorized US network no longer has a Brooklyn location. The nearest options run through New Jersey and the wider network rather than any of the five New York addresses the operator still lists. Molly Tea’s own store map at usa.mollytea.com is the only source that reflects which stores the brand currently recognizes; platform listings and third-party directories are running months behind on this.

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