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]
I agree. It’s been a typical flea market crowd, decent browsing crowd but obviously not so bad to be annoying like Times Square. Just right. My only complaint is that there is too much new expensive type stuff and not enough garage sale type booths. If I wanted new stuff I would just go to the store itself or to the mall on Atlantic or Queens. Flea markets are supposed to be swap meets of stuff you drag out of the basement or attic – ie OLD JUNK. Nothing better than back when I lived in the south and went to garage sales and yard sales on weekend mornings to buy other people junk for cheap prices.
I’ve been to the flea every weekend and despite the gloomy weather on all but one Sunday, the crowds were big.
Big enough that I didn’t really even get to buy much stuff, because there were so many people in each booth and I was too stoned to make my way through the crowds…
Correct me if I’m wrong, 4:26, but i would say that the very definition of a “flea market” is a place where people sell their old J-U-N-K!
the more junk the better, i say. that’s when you can find some real hidden treasures. the first couple weeks there was too much new stuff and fancy stuff. it’s been much much better recently. keep it up!
sell sangria at this thing and people will stay all day, get drunk and spend money.
how is getting customers into usually empty places ruining them 6:09?
only ahole i see here is you and the dude who is hoping the flea fails.
in these times of economic uncertainty, i think the folks who run businesses on myrtle welcome the suggestion.
how about you open a business and put a lock on the door and then we’ll all be happy.
please don’t tell people to eat brunch on myrtle. the flea has already ruined most brunch spots on sunday, unless waiting an hour for a table is your idea of fun. so much for maggie’s and pillow. assholes.
I live a couple of blocks from the flea market and I have been enjoying taking a stroll through it every Sunday, following the change and variety…. Yes I have bought already a few things, and planning on some big purchases, gotten a few decorating ideas too.
Also, as a resident of the foodshop deprived Clinton Hill, i’d like to express my joy at being able to buy BREAD on a Sunday, the INCREDIBLE Salvatore ricotta which I use for a quick penne sauce mixing it with marinara and adding parmesan, nutmeg and a spoon of hot water little kinds love it ( please try their cannolis and you’ll make yourself a favor!).
I also bought a package of the fair trade coffee (the espresso variety) and I found it good, am going to buy again…
I am also looking forward to the kids at Bishop Laughlin being able to run on a track which matches their talents, as a former sprinter in my high school days I watch them now and then and marvel and I cannot believe the subpar qualtiy of the track now that I experience it underfoot… ’nuff negativity you guys why don’t you actually get out of your lairs and DO something instead of sitting on your… (oops he’ll delete me!)?!
This comment, or similar, has been made numerous times on any number of topics: why do some people seem to get all hard over the possibility of something failing?
I mean, heck, I don’t really have much use for the flea market. I probably only went to the Chelsea markets three times in the thirty years I’ve lived here. I haven’t been to the Brooklyn Flea yet. I’d go Sunday with my moms if I didn’t have to work. But no matter what, I’m not sitting here hoping the endeaver will fail. What kind of malcontents are some of you? Do you have friends? How is that possible?
Unfortunately not. School policy.