No Flea This Weekend, Back on November 9
The NYC Marathon goes right past the Flea yard on Lafayette Avenue, lining the street with cheering crowds and making vendor load-in and load-out impossible. Plus the Bishop Loughlin student band has a long tradition of setting up in the yard to play for the runners. So there will be no Flea this Sunday, but…
The NYC Marathon goes right past the Flea yard on Lafayette Avenue, lining the street with cheering crowds and making vendor load-in and load-out impossible. Plus the Bishop Loughlin student band has a long tradition of setting up in the yard to play for the runners. So there will be no Flea this Sunday, but we’ll be back full throttle a week from Sunday and there through Christmas!
Photo by ltjbukem
We’d like to try to ‘run’ out of the house early and be away from FG a good part of the day. The din from the marathon and the general energy, though amusing at times, is a bit oppressive. Short of repulsion/attraction…trying to sit eating brunch and ignore the constant drone but getting up to report to the Husband Unit this group or that group is now going by. I can’t help myself. But honestly, looking down on all that movement is kind of dizzying.
I used to like it after the marathon when Lafayette was car-free for a long time and the neighborhood would get out and dance and enjoy in the street. Teenagers would often do big group line dancing…very cute. Last year I don’t think there was any. Bill and Whats-her-Name down the street who, each year, have an open house and a DJ and speakers set up outside had the police to contend with last year. The music was either shut down or so low nobody could hear it. I wonder what they’ll do this year.
He looks like Barney Fife.
Yes, Snark, I agree.
Can we re-cast.
Hotter, please.
Snark, your [hot cop] is in the scene.