Closing Bell: Flea Plus Garden Tour, House Tour, Art Walk
As we were gearing up for week 10 of the Brooklyn Flea, it was fun to have this video love letter from New York Magazine’s Fabiola Beracasa land in our inbox. Lots of food, fashion and fun in this one. As great a line up as we’ve got teed up for Sunday, there are a…
As we were gearing up for week 10 of the Brooklyn Flea, it was fun to have this video love letter from New York Magazine‘s Fabiola Beracasa land in our inbox. Lots of food, fashion and fun in this one. As great a line up as we’ve got teed up for Sunday, there are a bunch of other must-see events going on around the borough this weekend. Three we’ve got our eyes on: (1) Brownstone Brooklyn Garden Walk; (2) Victorian Flatbush House Tour; (3) Atlantic Avenue Artwalk. For the uninitiated, the Flea runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday and is 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 wanted to attend but, had one too many things to take care of. i did hear that it was too hot and sort of empty. am glad i did not make it.
I thought it sucked, i guess I’d call it a well-intentioned flop. With all the web exposure, I had hoped that Brownstoner would have supported/organized a more desirable social project. Walking around a parking lot looking at discarded and obnoxiously priced junk is hardly encouraging.
it was just too hot for me yesterday to swing on by. so, how was it??
It was toooo hot … I only stayed 20 minutes.
The heat radiated up from the pavement and down from the blistering sun.
Will try again in a few weeks.
Don’t forget, Saturday and Sunday, Victorian Flatbush is also having our first Artists Open Studio Tour! See website, http://www.flatbushartists.com, for details and map, and thanks to Mr. B for inspiring me to be shamelessly promotional about a good new thing. (Only problem with being on studio tour: Can’t bilocate and do Flea and taste Red Hook vendor food that is rumored to be there…)
There’s a nice sleepy burg upstate calling your name 4:44. I suggest you heed that call.
I guess I miss quiet Sunday mornings too…but hey, I really get up too late to have much of the AM left anyway and the parade of people going to and coming from the flea can be VERY amusing! And gives you a ton of foot traffic to set up a major stoop sale!
Best of all, it may be helping to keep our real estate values stable in FG so why not! What can I say? The PR is good.
So, enjoy! I wish the flea nothing but the best of luck!
Hay-ters!
I really hate the flea. I am so tired of tripping over peoplein front of my house staring at their Google map and trying to figure out how to get to Lafayette and Vanderbilt. I miss quiet Sunday mornings in the neighborhood…..