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October 22, 2009

Ho! Ho! Ho! The Flea Takes Manhattan (For a Month)

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Remember the one-day-a-week holiday market we threw last December at the Masonic Temple? Well, we're gonna take it up a notch (or two) this year. For the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas, The Brooklyn Flea will be hosting its Gifted Holiday Market in one of the old Tower Records spaces at the corner of Lafayette and East 4th Street in Manhattan. (We tried to get our hands on every large space in Downtown Brooklyn but couldn't find a single spot that worked.) Our friends at >Lucky Magazine will also be curating a portion of the event with a rotating cast of their favorite fashion and jewelry designers. The month-long stand will run from November 27 to December 24, with only Mondays and Tuesdays off (except for the final week when we'll be open every day). We're about 80 percent booked with vendors from the existing Flea family already, but we've purposefully saved slots for some fresh faces, so if you know anyone who might be a good candidate, please have them shoot an email to brooklynflea@gmail.com with "Gifted Vendor" as the subject. We'll have more information about vendors, dj's and Wednesday night after-work parties as we get a little closer to kick-off.




Posted by Brownstoner at 10:15 AM | Comments (23)
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That's pretty nifty... but you can't really call it the Brooklyn Flea, right? It'll be like "Connecticut Muffin" (which I've never understood)

Posted by: tybur6 at October 22, 2009 10:26 AM

Very impressive.
I think it may be time to turn the blog over to Biff (he's already the master of ceremonies) and dedicate yourself full-time to your fleasome pursuits.

Posted by: Minard Lafever at October 22, 2009 10:34 AM

Woohoo! You're slumming in the other New York?

Posted by: Maly at October 22, 2009 10:40 AM

Well, I did hear Manhattan is the new Brooklyn

Posted by: dirty_hipster at October 22, 2009 10:42 AM

"We tried to get our hands on every large space in Downtown Brooklyn but couldn't find a single spot that worked"

Manhattan commercial cheaper than Brooklyn. Now there's a notion.

***Bill Thompson for Mayor***

Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at October 22, 2009 10:45 AM

Not cheaper, that's for sure. It's more a matter of finding the right landlord that "gets it" and likes the idea of activating an otherwise empty space. The folks who own the space at the corner of Smith and Atlantic underneath the Nu Hotel, for example, dismissed the idea out of hand, even though they're currently earning nothing on the space and we would have brought thousands of people, along with a few potential tenants no doubt, through the space. Small-minded and short-sighted in our humble opinion.

Posted by: brownstoner at October 22, 2009 10:50 AM

Effectively cheaper. For the right price, the Nu et el would have budged. Everybody "gets" money in these times.

***Bill Thompson for Mayor***

Posted by: Brownstones Half Off at October 22, 2009 10:58 AM

Nope. They didn't even want to have the conversation. Dismissed the idea out of hand.

Posted by: brownstoner at October 22, 2009 11:15 AM


That's impressively silly! I have a spare room in my apartment, if you want to have a mini-Flea, I'm totally willing to negotiate. :-)

Posted by: tybur6 at October 22, 2009 11:17 AM

If the bad weekend weather continues, we might take you up on it, Tybur6!

Posted by: brownstoner at October 22, 2009 11:21 AM

No Nu's is good news.
(Sorry.)

Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at October 22, 2009 11:21 AM

Bummed to hear that it's not going to be in Brooklyn, but you will get an ass-ton of foot traffic in Union Square. Good for the flea! Personally I try to avoid Union Square like the bubonic plague but maybe I'll drag some brooklyn-phobic friends to it so they will be willing to trek out to Fort Greene some time.

Posted by: CG_ups at October 22, 2009 12:28 PM

Nu Hotel would have been such a great brooklyn location though. What dumbnuts they are. Totes would have been good for them, what nerds.

Posted by: CG_ups at October 22, 2009 12:29 PM

Being on East 4th furthers this blog's cred.

Posted by: infinitejester at October 22, 2009 12:55 PM

So, moving this to Manhattan is taking it up a notch or two?

Posted by: DitmasSnark at October 22, 2009 12:59 PM

CG, I think you're confusing Tower Records with Virgin Records.

As a vendor, I'm thrilled it's in Manhattan!

Posted by: rh at October 22, 2009 1:13 PM

in some ways this makes me sad. i loved tower records! to think one of my fav stores in the area is now hosting a yuppie junk sale. :(

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at October 22, 2009 1:14 PM

Rob, I think you're confusing Tower Records with Other Music. Sure, Tower had a great selection and I practically lived there at one point, but a huge store like that....not yuppie? You're living in la la land, baby!

Posted by: rh at October 22, 2009 1:25 PM

Other Music is a great stuff, definitely. but tower had movies and stuff as well. tho, best buy in the area has the same crap, so i guess it really isnt that big of a loss.. i think i mostly only like tower when i would collect import cd singles, but those have pretty much gone the way of the dodo bird anyway.

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at October 22, 2009 1:51 PM

Taking it up a notch...from one day a week to five...

Posted by: brownstoner at October 22, 2009 1:51 PM

Tower was there forever and ever too. It was the cool place to hang out for teenagers, even visiting teenagers like me from the sticks of Philadelphia. Then Philadelphia got its own Tower Records, eventually and we were all impressed.

Now, get off my lawn! I must find the geritol.

Posted by: Heather at October 22, 2009 2:32 PM

> Taking it up a notch...from one day a week to five...

Awesome. Well done, Mr. B.

Posted by: DitmasSnark at October 22, 2009 4:11 PM

Just overheard a couple of Manhattanites in my office talking about this - and how they'll finally be able to check it out as it was "so far away in Brooklyn" before

Posted by: dirty_hipster at October 22, 2009 4:39 PM

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