Check out Brooklyn Flea today. Here are the ‘tails:
Brooklyn Flea will take place every Sunday from 10am to 5pm—rain or shine—starting April 6, 2008, at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on Lafayette Ave. between Clermont and Vanderbilt Ave. The Flea will feature 200 vendors of vintage furniture, clothing and antiques alongside new designs by local makers of everything from jewelry to textiles
Here’s Brownstoner’s blog post from Friday:
Garbage cans? Check. Orange “Flea Staff” caps? Check. Insane amounts of media attention? Uh huh. (Signore Flea is about to do an interview with an Italian journalist for La Repubblica’s weekly magazine, D. Molto bene!)
So a few things before ze Flea takes flight. The food court we’ve been touting so highly will be only halfway complete by this Sunday. Choice Market and Wafels + Dinges will be in the yard, plus all the cookies, cupcakes, and ricotta cheese. (OMG alert: Salvatore Bklyn Ricotta will be debuting their heavily researched cannolis on Sunday.) And we’re hopeful that within the month our BBQ dude, soup gals, Mexican ices chica, and Cuban empanadas hombre will join them. (A little red tape has held us up ever so briefly.)
Bring dough. There are ATMs within a block or two, but not at the Flea itself. We’re not set up to take credit cards (yet), although many vendors can handle them manually, or by Paypal via wireless internet. But for the first few weeks it’s safer to assume you’ll be paying cash. And finally, enjoy yourself.
I want reports. I want pictures. Did anyone go? What’s it like. What did you buy?
My husband and I braved the gale force winds and went around noon today. My overall report is: it was insanely fab! We headed straight for the Waffles & Dinges booth, which was worth the trip alone. We then tried to weave our way through the booths in as organized manner as we could. We ended up buying: two fantastic needlepoint boudoir pillows, a gorgeous, very large charcoal drawing (for $18!), a vintage gold leather jewelry roll, a set of mod gold striped shot glasses, a really unique perfume bottle I found in the shape of a horse’s head (sounds strange, but its actually a really beautiful piece of glass) and an interesting DVD that my husband picked out that has hours of vintage beer and cigarette commercials. My one comment would be that the quality level of the vendors was so high, I almost sort of missed the little booths that typical fleas have way too many of where you can search around for a treasure in the midst of all of the crap. Also, I think they need way more in the way of food. The waffles line was looong. They did have a booth next to it with sandwiches, etc, but aside from that there was really not much else (beyond sweets, little chocolates, etc). All in all, we definitely enjoyed ourselves and will absolutely be back!