Trouser Press called Epiphany in Brooklyn "an album so melodramatically oversung that Kahn could be auditioning for the Ethel Merman part in some Broadway-does-folksingers production."[2] The Washington Post called the album "livelier and more tuneful than much neo-folk."[6] The News & Record called it "full of spiky energy and closely observed vignettes."[7]
Ann Powers, of The New York Times, wrote: "Her songs, many of which are featured on her new album, Epiphany in Brooklyn, focused on the small world of post-modern slackers, with the kinds of lyrics that college students copy into notebooks because they so accurately describe their confused, wishful lives."[8]
In 2022, music critic Chuck Klosterman listed Epiphany in Brooklyn as one of his top 20 favorite 1990s albums for American Songwriter. He wrote: "There’s probably some sentimentality attached to this selection. It’s impossible for me to separate my current appreciation of the material from the experience of listening to it originally. I had an inscrutable friend who loved this record even more than I did, and she would write me long handwritten letters quoting lyrical passages from its various songs, along with interpretations of how those lyrics related to her life and our friendship."[9]
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