Closing Bell: Flea Bigger and Better Than Ever on Sunday
As long as our nemesis mother nature plays nice, this is shaping up to be biggest and best Flea yet. As noted on the Flea Blog today, there are a bunch of new high-qual, old-school vendors starting up this weekend, including Fort Greener Gary Ford who used to have a booth at the 25th Street…
As long as our nemesis mother nature plays nice, this is shaping up to be biggest and best Flea yet. As noted on the Flea Blog today, there are a bunch of new high-qual, old-school vendors starting up this weekend, including Fort Greener Gary Ford who used to have a booth at the 25th Street Garage and will be showcaseing his eclectic mix of fossilized whale bones, Persian prayer rugs, and picture frames along the Clermont fence on Sunday. For the uninitiated, the Flea runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday and is located at 176 Lafayette Avenue. 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. If you’ve come before and combined your outing with a visit to one of the many restaurants on Dekalb Avenue, why not be a tad more adventurous and check out the wealth of brunch options a few blocks north on Myrtle Avenue.
Lotsa New Vendors This Weekend! [Flea Blog]
Wow, I actually thought the flea had already been discontinued due to the drop off in attendance. Glad to see it’s still around.
high qual ? what is that a text message?
going to a flea market in nyc is one lazy step from doing nothing.
what do you expect a deal?
I have to say… I agree this is a cool thing to do.. go ahead and blame B’stoner for it being a yuppie high-end “flea” market.. the only thing I want are those huge doors…
But he’s running a business and you want to attack him?
Well maybe you should boycott Exxon instead of Brownstoner–small business owner…
Why not go for some more culpable people? Culpable for ruining the environment. culture anything…
We enjoyed the market last Sunday. The used bicycle guy is a great discovery. We’re going to get a used road bike (we called them ’10 speeds’) from him. Great deal.
It would be nice to see more of the ‘junk’ people are talking about above. Cheap stuff that creative people use for decoration, multimedia construction, and other surprising inspirations, not to mention reuse.
No doubt the mix will be dynamic, vendors will come and go, and it will continue to be a place for great deals and fun finds.
Good work Mr. B! We love the positive energy. And I’m not talking about Qi. I’m talking about people who put themselves on the line to do do positive things for their communities.
Why does every one feel the need to use vulgar language in response to the posters who think the flea market is not so crowded?
Is your vocabulary that limited?
Or did you just not graduate from high school?
“I will say that I also thought the crowds were getting awfully small with each passing weekend. My impression is that Brooklyn has a lot of people who want to go to a flea market…once”
I find this post hilarious. And not because the person writing it (and the others) is clearly quite sick.
So let me get this straight…you thought the crowds were getting small with each passing weekend (meaning that you’ve been to the flea MORE than once) and then you say you can’t imagine people wanting to go more than once? And this while simultaneously alluding to the fact that it must suck, yet you’ve been on MULTIPLE OCCASSIONS to take note of the alleged dwindling crowds??
UHHHH….ok dude. You are one messed up mother fkjghhadasdhasdqijbbgsp!!!!
Let me guess…you were just walking by it every Sunday…you didn’t actually go in, right??
LOL
lol @ 7:39 (this is 6:48 again) I have been there 3 times now including last week, which I will admit had more of the typical flea market feel with more “junk” So I’m looking forward to this coming trip on Sunday. There is a really cool junk store on North 9th by Roebling in Williamsburg called “Brooklyn Junk” thats really my style – lots of salvation army type stuff mixed in with tons of authentic mid-century stuff in unrestored condition. I love digging through boxes of unpriced crap at flea markets too. Hopefully it will get better and better with that type stuff.
7:23 – someone who has not been laid in 2 decades.
have you been in the last 2 weeks, 6:48??
definitely more “junk” than there was the first couple weeks…
good junk…
nothing i bought last weekend cost over 5 bucks.