Brooklyn Flea
After the High Line, my second favourite New York experience was a trip to Brooklyn Flea. A fabulous vintage market selling furniture, fashion and food. Mr & Mrs That’s Not My Age are like trained sniffer dogs when it comes to bric-a-brac, from a dusty Spanish car park to a random yard sale in Blackpool – wherever we are in the world, we’ll find the man with the table full of tat. Anyhow, there’s no tat here, the Flea is pretty classy, and it overwinters in the former Williamsburg Savings Bank (or at least it did when I first wrote this. Check HERE for locations):
Photos via Brooklyn Eagle
Set over three floors this gorgeous old building (now known as Skylight One Hanson) feels like a movie set. The original details, including the tellers’ windows and basement vaults complete with enormous metal security door, are all intact. The day we went to Brooklyn, the wind chill factor was brutal. I haven’t cried because my ears are cold since I was about six-years-old but on that Saturday in February, a hatless woman wept. If you’re in the area, and trying to dodge the vicious weather, Brooklyn Flea is indoors till the end of March and moves outside (to a different location) in April.
Here’s our booty. A battered metal globe and a 1940s subway map (just back from the picture framers):
Do you have a favourite market?
Discussion (14 Comments)
Great photos – the flea market looks wonderful! If I ever visit New York I'll have to look it up.
Wow! I would be in my element rummaging through there! I could go absolutely mental. If I had any money…
I laughed at the sniffer dogs bit. I'm the same.
What a beautiful building. I shall check it out next time I'm in NY xx
Oh I would think I had died and gone to heaven in there not only the stuff but the wonderful building .. I so love New Yorkxx
WHat a beautiful location. Very grand indeed. You were lucky it was winter, just to see this. Lovely new globe and tube map. Xxxx
I'd love to peruse that market, it looks fabulous. If I ever get to NY I'll definately head that way.
My favourite is either the Thursday car boot sale by me, not iopen yet, but specialises in house clearance stuff that the dealers can't sell in their antique shops, all retro and post modern tat for less than a quid. xxxYes I adore the flea market in St Tropez every Tuesday and Saturday. Have found some fabulous treasures there over the last couple of years, including a bronze statue and great jewellery. Even better is the "Bricante" every Sunday morning just outside our village, quite a lot of our apartment has been furnished from there.
I love all the Honkers markets but they pale compared to that Brooklyn one. Love that sort of shoppping jaunt x
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I'm currently compiling a list of things to do next time Spouse and I get to NYC, so I'm adding this to the list! We have a great flea market just down the road – every time I go there, I find something I have to have, ranging from a long burgundy leather coat to a set of 60s ramekins … I have to ration my visits.