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April 17, 2008
New + Noteworthy
Like a flea on the haunch of its cow, we're paying close attention to everything going on around us. We love how opinionated folks are about the Flea, because it gives us a chance to evolve quickly and on the fly. Senor likes to call ze Flea an organism--usually an amoeba--that grows and contracts new parts each week to suit its environment.
More concretely, be on the lookout for loads of great new vendors this Sunday and next, mostly from the vintage/antique realm, especially furniture.
We'll be adding a lot of vendors with larger spaces, like Karen and Al from Antiquinaires, who bring in a broad range of items from Long Island; Mike from Mohawk Studios up in Hudson, who makes metal furniture and has other industrial-feel stuff; and Blue Dot Auctions, making the trek from Western Mass for the first time this Sunday with lord knows what from their massive trove. Next week in the same "pod," look out for Charlie from Vinylmania, which had a 30-year run on Carmine St. in the Village, to debut his zillions of records at the Flea.
A few folks are off this week for Passover, so by the handball walls you'll see some new faces like Good Vintage Collectibles from Swampscott, Mass., Sonia's Fine Pottery, and Bloom Antiques, from around the corner in Fort Greene. (Silver spoons, above, for a newborn perhaps?)
Along the Lafayette fence to the right, Ornaments + Objects finally appears at the Flea, right next to newly minted media icon and mid-century West German pottery purveyor Ginfor's Odditiques, who treks all the way from Indiana to do the Flea. (Senor knows Ginfor's pottery is gorgeous!)
What else? Hairy Mary's Vintage, an LES shop that opened after the Chelsea fleas started fading, joins the Flea this Sunday. Nollywood Depot, the Fulton St. Clinton Hill shop selling Nigerian underground films, returns. (Nollywood's Ogugua worked with Fela Kuti, go chat him up about it.) Bien Hecho debuts, a Navy Yard furniture maker who re-purposes salvage from local brownstones.
And make sure to peruse the aisles of smaller booths, as we've been trying to add a deeper variety of what nice people call "stuff"--along with the ricotta cannolis, cupcakes, perfumes, herbal salves, costume jewelry, humidifiers, squirrel dolls, bicycles, sports memorabilia, baby furniture, and edible plants.
See ya there.
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Comments
Sounds great! I guess the onezee complainers can rest for a while.
Posted by: guest at April 17, 2008 1:36 PM
dog valet would be cool also.
Posted by: guest at April 17, 2008 11:27 PM
"Dog Valet"?
Man that phrase has no place in Brooklyn. Take your pampered pooch and trust fund back to the Upper East Side.
And what would you do if someone's Lab takes a bite out of your little poodle's butt? Sue Brownstoner? Good luck on that one.
Posted by: guest at April 18, 2008 6:45 PM
I imagine that the dog valet comment was meant in jest.
Posted by: guest at April 19, 2008 8:40 AM
hating people with trust funds is awesome. i also hate smart people, tall people, and people with nice teeth.
Posted by: guest at April 19, 2008 9:17 AM
mike is great. his handmade industrial furniture is amazing and inexpensive, and he is uber friendly to boot. but i don't understand what all the complaining is about pertaining to lack of furniture. there seems to be tons, and if you can't find what your looking for at the Flea the neighborhood has some great furniture places to check out like Yu Interiors on Greene and RePOP on Washington Ave (both of which I'm surprised haven't been given nods, cuz don't they both have beautifully curated booths with good stuff there?) They are both minutes away from the flea and although both vary in prices you can find some amazing designer deals. Also check out Tessan Boutique on Dekalb for killer jewelry and for homemade soaps and cosmetics Karen's Body Beautiful on Myrtle Avenue. The flea is great, but while you're on the hunt for good deals remember to support your local businesses!!!!!
Posted by: guest at April 20, 2008 11:49 AM
A neighborhood map with local merchants and eateries, etc. - would be a great gesture of goodwill.
Posted by: guest at April 20, 2008 9:09 PM
Now THAT'S a flea market:
"I was at the flea market in Oakland yesterday when a pile of EPROMs caught my eye. When I got them home I found that they were prototypes for Colecovision games. A few were unpublished or saw limited runs, like Video Hustler (billiards). Others were fully released, like WarGames. But the crown jewel is what look to be a number of chips with various revisions of Cabbage Patch Kids Adventures in the Park for Atari 2600. This game was never released and has never been seen. It was a port of the version for Colecovision, and this lot of chips also included the Coleco version. So now I have to find someone who can dump EPROMs gently onto a PC so we can play this never-before seen game, which is almost certainly awful."
http://blog.gism.net/2008/04/20/most-legendary-haul-at-the-flea-market/
Posted by: guest at April 22, 2008 8:44 AM
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