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Market Values: Brooklyn Flea
If your idea of a great Sunday afternoon involves wandering through a flea market, visiting a new neighborhood, or shopping ‘til you drop, the city’s newest edition will give you a lot more to love. The long-anticipated Brooklyn Flea is now open for business every Sunday in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The Flea features over 200 vendors of new and vintage furniture, lighting, records, clothes, jewelry, and more, including wares by local artists and designers.

More high-profile than the name implies, Brooklyn Flea is the largest outdoor market in New York City. The brainchild of Jonathan Butler—the man behind definitive Brooklyn real estate and renovation blog Brownstoner.com—the concept has been years in the making, including finding the right neighborhood to host it.

The market resides on a 40,000-square-foot Fort Greene lot, near the restaurants of Dekalb Avenue. Brooklyn Flea hopes to be the “weekend destination for bargain-seekers and cool-hunters alike.” Collectors may fare well since dealers from all over converge here, but it’s hard to imagine that any but the most disciplined shopper would walk away empty-handed. There are also Belgian waffles, cookies by Brown Bag Industries, cupcakes by Kumquat Cupcakery and more.

If early reports are any indication, the newest destination in endless shopping (and Sunday wandering) promises to become a New York City weekend tradition.

Brooklyn Flea
Sundays (rain or shine) from 10am to 5pm
Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on Lafayette Avenue between Clermont and Vanderbilt Avenues
Brownstoner.com/brooklynflea