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
The Flea rocks.
Give it a few weeks to grow, for crying out loud–it’s a new business. In case you’ve never built a new business, here’s a memo: It takes time and a shitpile of work. Also, capital. And press.
The Flea had a great, (yes, diverse, you race-baiting morons) vibe, with families, strollers, bikes, students, scruffy guys, preppie bankers, the whole deal. It’s going to be an amazing boost to area restaurants–the brunch lines will be long.
Now, if Mr. B can succeed in doing what he says he wants to do–get more furniture–he’ll really do well.
People in the hood are really excited about this new amenity. 26th street sucked for years–interesting stuff sometimes, but always horrific prices. I haven’t bought anything there since about 2003. So it was really no great loss. I’d much rather stroll over through gorgeous Clinton Hill than to the nasty canyons of 6th Ave. in Chelsea.
Daveinbedstuy wrote:
“Are those pics of what you people call “hipsters?” Arrrggghhhhh”
dave, Please post your picture so we can comment. arrrrgh
agreed 2:23….2:15 hit the nail on the head
guest at April 14, 2008 2:15 PM
I like you, and your post!!!
Isn’t the guy there in the yellow, black?
So one of three photos is of an African American. 33%. That’s about 20% more than the percentage in the United States.
RE: “appreciating them as they are…..” in 1968, a friend’s mother felt forced to sell her house in park slope for 10,000 because a speculator told her it was only worth tearing down because it was in a slum. jobs and residents were leaving brooklyn in droves. we could go back to THOSE days and THAT status quo. as far as i know, neighborhoods and cities, like brooklyn, either get “better” or “worse,” in dollar terms. show me any city, anywhere, where this is not true.
To the people who think that the Flea market is largely being done to promote the website and therefore to promote the brownstones in the neighborhood for the sake of increasing their value: You can’t be serious.
To the people who have a problem with the racial composition of the crowd that was there (which to any reasonable mind is entirely beyond the control of brownstoner) : You just simply can’t be serious.
To the jaded, ignorant, depressed, angry, self-loathing posters who think this guy and this website are racists, even though i’ve certainly never seen any proof: You cannot be f*&^%*# serious. Get a f#$%^&# life.
No, I don’t have any connection to the flea market, Brownstoner, the site, the advertisers, clinton hill, the brooklyn real estate market, nothing. (ok – I do own a place in brooklyn. but i don’t need or want to sell.) I’m just calling shit on all the venom being spewed here lately for no good reason!
asking brownstoner to try to control the racial composition of the vendors and/or shopping crowd is a very weird notion. How can anyone seriously think that he did anything other than put the information about the flea market out there for EVERYONE to take advantage of: black, white, brown, yellow, green, whatever.
Are those pics of what you people call “hipsters?” Arrrggghhhhh
another fun flea day – as a clinton hill resident, it was nice to see so many of the local shop owners vending as well as those from out of the area. I am also glad that the majority of the thousands of people who went and enjoyed have more to do with their time than bitch on blogs. I will now join them. thanks brownstoner, for a cool sunday market – makes us stay home on sundays!