Ho! Ho! Ho! The Flea Takes Manhattan (For a Month)
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…
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.
Being on East 4th furthers this blog’s cred.
Nu Hotel would have been such a great brooklyn location though. What dumbnuts they are. Totes would have been good for them, what nerds.
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.
No Nu’s is good news.
(Sorry.)
If the bad weekend weather continues, we might take you up on it, Tybur6!
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. 🙂
Nope. They didn’t even want to have the conversation. Dismissed the idea out of hand.
Effectively cheaper. For the right price, the Nu et el would have budged. Everybody “gets” money in these times.
***Bill Thompson for Mayor***
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.