Stylish Times at The Flea
We’re not having the best of the luck with the weather at The Flea, but luckily we’re more than making up for it with media coverage. (To be fair, it hasn’t actually rained yet, but it’s come pretty darn close both Sundays to date.) The Sunday Styles section of The Times devoted its cover yesterday…
We’re not having the best of the luck with the weather at The Flea, but luckily we’re more than making up for it with media coverage. (To be fair, it hasn’t actually rained yet, but it’s come pretty darn close both Sundays to date.) The Sunday Styles section of The Times devoted its cover yesterday to photographs of a number of vendors who were on hand for opening day. (The story was even on the NYT home page for a while.) Here’s an except from one of the slideshows narrated by Time scribe Guy Trebay:
The mix of the people you saw at the Brooklyn Flea was really the best part of it. It was very race-mixed, gender-mixed, age-mixed. It was very family, but in the larger sense of the New York family. It just had a very Brooklyn vibe in general.
Another big crowd turned out yesterday, along with a mix of vendors that included a number of new antiques and vintage sellers. Another bunch of vendors who used to be at the Chelsea flea market start next week. Hopefully they’ll bring some sunshine with them!
Scavengers on the Urban Savannah [NY Times]
Photos from DJ $mall Change‘s Flickr Set
“Goes to show that no good deed ever goes unpunished. This is a good thing for Ft.Greene/Clinton Hill, a good thing for Brooklyn.”
Montrose Morris = Armstrong Williams. Damn Morris, just when I was warring up to ya. This is a good thing for Asshats, not for the “people” of BROOKLYN!!!!
The What (YAAAHHH Shit)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Hey BTW Where is that assfuck Biff. Maybe getting a pap smear.
he had no point Dave, he grew up in Oakland
what is “an authority on Filipinos” and why would he say something racist about white people being annoying in general?
I too cannot believe these posts on the subject of a flea market
I think Brownstoner should become a super delegate. After all, the people here are as stupid as those running for office (at least the democrats).
The republican’s are going to take this election for the whole Hillary “Bama bullshit. It divided the party once again.
Now we are going to go on about this flea market and you know what, the neighborhood is so going to benefit long after the racial troll is trolled out.
Brownstoner for Superdelegate. Brownstoner for property values. Keep up the good work Stoner.
Thank you Montrose.
It’s just a flea market.
8:31..your countless friends of color have been telling you lies. Whatever point it is that you are trying to make, you are annoying.
what was your point?
the primary problem here is that white people, as a general rule, are annoying.
I am white myself but have been told by countless black people, a few puerto ricans and an authority on filipinos that i am a refreshing exception to this rule.
i managed to thwart any predisposition towards being annoying because i grew up in oakland.
but yes, as a rule of thumb, i think it’s safe to assume when meeting a new white person that he/she will eventually annoy you.
thanks for your time.
the primary problem here is that white people, as a general rule, are annoying.
I am white myself but have been told by countless black people, a few puerto ricans and an authority on filipinos that i am a refreshing exception to this rule.
i managed to thwart any predisposition towards being annoying because i grew up in oakland.
but yes, as a rule of thumb, i think it’s safe to assume when meeting a new white person that he/she will eventually annoy you.
thanks for your time.
Amazing how the incendiary posts of a couple of rabble rousers took this thread to a place totally detached from reality.
IT’S A FLEA MARKET!!!
Goes to show that no good deed ever goes unpunished. This is a good thing for Ft.Greene/Clinton Hill, a good thing for Brooklyn. If it turns a profit, it’s a good thing for the school, which really needs the money. If Brownstoner and Co make some bucks, more power to them. They did the work, they built it, and people came. What’s so controversial or insidious about that?
We’ve let the hating posts of a couple of people, who I can guarantee never set foot anywhere near the market, dictate the conversation. I was there both days, plenty of minorities on both sides of the aisle, buyers and sellers, and the buyers were interested in all categories of merchandise.
To make some kind of sociological treatise on race and class out of a simple market is an exercise in absurdity. To see conspiracies where none exist is paranoid and non productive. It doesn’t matter if the Dutch had slaves, or if black people sold their homes to white people, and aided in the gentrification of the area. WTF? It’s a FLEA MARKET!!
Take the What (please!) Here’s a guy who professes daily to hate Brownstoner, and this site with every fibre of his being. Yet his rants have proved popular enough to be part of this site’s vocabulary, and have boosted this site’s readership, thereby increasing the site’s profitability. Is that how you treat your enemies, smother them with success? Why should anyone take seriously the ridiculous racial and devisive drivel he and his ilk spew?
Come on, people. After a mere 2 tries at a market, people are going to continue to bitch about pricing, merchandise, food/no food, and now the racial makeup of the day? If you don’t like anything about the Flea, stay home. If you can get what you want cheaper somewhere else, go there and get it. It’s evolving, the weather will get better and more people will be out, the vendors will give people what they want, or they will stop doing it, and be replaced by others. I went to the Chelsea market lots of times and came away with nothing. So what? It’s the experience, the hunt and the enjoyment of the day that counted.
‘Nuff said.
There were bikes the first week and I was told that there will be bikes next week too.
Okay now I am going to take the other side. “Race issues are better debated on Yahoo chat groups.” Er, why? I have no objection to discussion the implications of race, change, property, etc. God if all this blog talks about is property as property per se it would be pretty damn boring. And given the history of race in this country, it would be hard to completely separate it from “property” and the definition of ownership and control wouldn’t it? I just didn’t find the the criticism of the Brooklyn Flea on racial empowerment grounds all that persuasive or intriguing.