Closing Bell: Fair Weather Flea?
At this point, we’ve stopped believing the weather reports, but if you do put stock in those kinds of things, you’d have reason to be optimistic about a dry Flea this Sunday. There are plenty of other reasons for optimism as well: First off, we’ve got the inaugural run of the Flea Scavenger Hunt—find any…
At this point, we’ve stopped believing the weather reports, but if you do put stock in those kinds of things, you’d have reason to be optimistic about a dry Flea this Sunday. There are plenty of other reasons for optimism as well: First off, we’ve got the inaugural run of the Flea Scavenger Hunt—find any of this week’s three items, and they’re yours to keep. To beat the heat, we’ve got organic People’s Popsicle joining existing vendors Chida and Blue Marble. To whet your appetite for antique and vintage finds, check out this recent post on the Flea Blog. For the newbies out the, the Flea hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday; it’s located at 176 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn. Closest trains are the C and G to Washington/Clinton. Or you can take any of the number of trains that go to Atlantic Station and make the 10-minute stroll up Lafayette Avenue from there.
i know there have been umpteen posts about dogs vs no dogs at the flea in the past. but what exactly is the official reason why no dogs in the flea? because the school claims that they could do their business in there and ruin the ground surface? that the vendors don’t want their merch pee’d on?
on another note, whatever became of that early bird $5 admission fee? there was a serious negative vibe about it initially, and then i never heard how it panned out. did senor flea actually go thru with it?
I won’t go to the flea. The whole idea of it for me was to take a nice long walk with my six pound dog and browse around. But then I got there and they don’t allow dogs. Useless.
My wife had to stand outside while I rushed through not buying anything. The flea market on 7th ave in Park Slope is on school grounds and they allow dogs. You’re missing out on a lot of sales because of this outdated policy.
click on the flea link at the top right. Eric is the best person to ask about selling, hours, rules and regs.
I have a question about the flea market I want to ask, but I guess this isn’t forum for it? I could have sworn the post was about the flea…
Actually, that’s not a myth of the internet. A roommate of mine in college used software like that to posts ads on Craigslist…hundreds of ’em. Scary, actually.
But be that as it may, Jack, I’m in 100% agreement with you that manditory registration is the way to go. It’s time to clean house on Brownstoner.
Oh, dare I make an on-topic comment, but today’s flea was great. The variety of sellers is much better than before. And the Pupusas were really good and very affordable.
“The right software can create a thousand of these for you with the click of a button.”
The threat of people registering thousands of “fake” e-mails is nonsense. I do this professionally and it’s one of the modern myths of the Internet.
Force people to register and block guests and things will be better right away. They do it on tons of site and the signal to noise ratio is tons cleaner.
Funny that the only people claiming it “doesn’t” work are cowardly guests posting nonsense in this comment thread and others.
Missed the flea today!!!! But it’s always a little overpriced in the housewares section anyway. Just got my login. Too bad I forgot the damn password……
“white and proud” is a little close to ‘white pride’ for me.. let the onslaught of “original” names begin.. this oughta be good…