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
Let’s see, a flea market brings more racial tension than a black man running for president of the United States? Hmmmmmm is something wrong here or is it just Brooklyn? It’s a Flea Market, A Flea market: you buy used and broken shit. Or new shit or overpriced shit. But it’s all shit for sale. Race issues are better debated on Yahoo chat groups.
I am not sure I buy the equation of Fort Greene with Indian (sic) ancestral lands. Though in some ways a solution to the problem you oh nameless guest posit could be answered by adoption of a tribal homeland model to certain designated Afro-am homelands. Inside such neighborhoods, property could not be transferred out of Black hands without authorization of the Council of Community Elders. New businesses could be opened only if ownership was black – any non-blacks would have to seek a Black partner. Foods served and products sold would have to market tested as being attractive to Blacks. If at any time the racial make-up of clientele became less than 63% african american, it would have to close for two weeks as a threat to the historic (as defined as a period between 1954 and 1998) nature of the community.
Okay I’ve been told to stop this nonsense and pay attention to my dinner host.
No bikes btw sold at the Flea.
spoken like a true armchair philosopher 6:21
what’s in the past cannot be changed
I liked the intellectual addition of the Troll name calling too
what a fool.those in power can change history and strip it for thier own benefit. You should think before you write Troll.
history is history…it can’t be changed or “stripped” whatever that means!!!
i’m sure a lot of rich black folks like Oprah and all major league sports stars have displaced white people from places
you people talking this race crap really need to think about what you’re saying before you type it out!!!!
I never knew a flea market could be such a racially charged issue…was there a separate entrance for certain ethnicities????
e affluent (and predominantly white) folks take over, african american history is stripped,
There are tons of affluent blacks in Ft. Greene.
Spike Lee much?
Gentrification is a class issue.
now that’s one hell of a mustache on the guy on the right! look at that thing!
a flea market is open to everyone. stop with all the race shit.
I do remember slavery, as I said, I studied history. But I had nothing to do with slavery. Neither did my family. Maybe if they’d thought ahead they would have immigrated a few centuries earlier so that I could have my very own brownstone and I could have been angry at the people moving in next door and being so bold as to organize a community event like a *gasp* flea market!