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Brooklyn Flea! Starts APRIL 6th

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  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    pitu wrote: I think there was a range, although I wouldn't mind more cheap cool furniture...
    Early non-bargained prices:
    Heyward-Wakefield oval end table, $40 . . .
    $250 for a larger than normal enamel vintage kitchen table
    I saw a cabinet thingy I wanted to scoop up but was concerned about the price tag. I don't know how vintage furniture should be priced and I don't know how to figure out if something has bug or mildew or whatever damage so .... :(

    but I do like vintage diamond rings. too bad I know I can get the $700 ring from the flea for $50 at a pawn shop since vintage buyers don't shop pawn shops (idiots)
  • pitu
    pitu
    alafairnadia wrote: [quote=pitu]I think there was a range, although I wouldn't mind more cheap cool furniture...
    Early non-bargained prices:
    Heyward-Wakefield oval end table, $40 . . .
    $250 for a larger than normal enamel vintage kitchen table
    I saw a cabinet thingy I wanted to scoop up but was concerned about the price tag. I don't know how vintage furniture should be priced and I don't know how to figure out if something has bug or mildew or whatever damage so .... :(

    but I do like vintage diamond rings. too bad I know I can get the $700 ring from the flea for $50 at a pawn shop since vintage buyers don't shop pawn shops (idiots)

    well, if they are reading this thread....lock you pawn shops...
    :D

    the furniture sellers who have cleaned up the goods, and are selling special stuff (czech modern...czech modern...I want some of that)
    are charging shop prices, which is less fun for sure. It's pitched more like the former 23rd St Flea used to be that way.
    But there was some messier stuff that was cool and not stratospherically priced (meaning, somewhere between upstate flea and 23rd St flea.....)
    None of that is *like it used to be*, anywhere.

    Alafair, mildew, you can see/smell. Price...well, look in your wallet and work from there....
    :D
  • MOD
    MOD
    It's raining out there, do you think they'll still have the Flea? I've been wanting to go.
  • pitu
    pitu
    I think they do it rain or shine...

    And I just put it together (dur) that Ici is one block away on Dekalb. I love Ici.
    (It's a restaurant. You can have delicious fancy dinner there, but they are also open for breakfast and lunch)
    Woohoo!
  • criticaltodd
    criticaltodd
    Mamacita wrote: It's raining out there, do you think they'll still have the Flea? I've been wanting to go.
    I went over around noon and it was up and running.
  • ch_smooth
    ch_smooth
    some of the red hook ball park vendors will be at the flea this sunday!! oh happy day.
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    ch_smooth wrote: some of the red hook ball park vendors will be at the flea this sunday!! oh happy day.
    Oh theres food too? :D

    Apparantly, the antiques part of this flea market is the displaced vendors from the Chelsea one at 26th and 6th ave in Manhattan. That market had not been cheap for YEARS. Thats why its expensive. I am pleased they are including local artisans. Thats good. I am one myself and need to check it out. No my stuff is not cheap neither. Hey artists/craftspeople are stuck paying these ridiculous rents too you know...

    I live right around corner from it and I noticed the enormous amount of foot traffic all over the hood and also that every sunday lately ALL the corner delis have been completely sold out of certain things. Its kind of good all that $ is coming into the hood and going into some smaller local businesses pockets.

    This will improve my stoop sale traffic and income a million percent :D
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel
    Went today - after all the hype & "buzz" I had high expectations - but it was a huge disappointment - hipster-chic booths with the "new" Brooklyn pricing to match- as in way overpriced merchandise - albeit some very cool stuff. And 2 scoops of Blue Marble ice cream for $5.00 - yikes - and it wasn't that good. And the line for the pupusa and huaraches vendors was FOREVER! I'll wait 'til they reopen at the ballfields - where the vibe is better and you don't bake exposed on top of a tarmac. We walked away thinking only a real estate site could have thought this venture up.
  • gtrain
    gtrain
    Livetotravel wrote: We walked away thinking only a real estate site could have thought this venture up.
    "and weekly, around the corner, there's [pause for dramatic effect] wildly overpriced crap that is being sold [pause for dramatic effect] OUTSIDE."

    i could totally see this being a selling point for an real estate agent. hell, it'd win me over!

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