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A huge pop-up market for New York City designers and makers will take place this weekend and next at Industry City in Sunset Park. Factory Floor, as it is being called, will include furniture, lighting, wall coverings and home accessories overĀ 22,000 square feet in the old Bush Terminal manufacturing complex. There will also be DJs, food trucks and games for children. For a list of designers, go here.

The market is being presented by Industry City, BKLYN Designs and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, with support from Made in NYC and the Pratt Center for Community Development.

“The creative and innovative makers community in Brooklyn and across the city is the key to moving the cityā€™s innovation economy forward through production of sophisticated, high-quality products,” said Andrew Kimball, CEO of Industry City and former chief executive of the Navy Yard Development Corp. in a prepared statement. “Factory Floor will give these local manufacturers an opportunity to showcase and sell their designs to a larger consumer audience.”

The market will run Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am to 6 pm starting October 19 at 241 37th Street.

“Our goal is to remove the bottleneck that exists between design-savvy local consumers and the tremendous cache of indigenous talent creating their products in Brooklyn and city-wide,” said Carlo Scissura, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. “Factory Floor provides a new opportunity to elevate Brooklyn as a worldwide epicenter of design and boutique manufacturing.”

Rendering via Factory Floor


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