{"id":2698,"date":"2009-04-15T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2019-11-04T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:52:59","slug":"fort-greene-flea-market-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2698\/fort-greene-flea-market-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Flea Diary: The Fort Greene Market is Reopening Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What: <\/strong>The Brooklyn Flea<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Every Saturday, starting April 18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why: <\/strong>Dear Flea-ites, I have a confession to make. I\u2019m a Flea-aholic. I am one of the bazaar&#8217;s nearly 500 followers on Twitter. I visit its blog daily, and I\u2019ve made more cameos to the market than I\u2019m willing to admit. Before the <a title=\"oM Flea article\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2008\/05\/04\/a-flea-market-grows-in-brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flea<\/a> went indoors last winter, I was a clock-work flea bee. Every Sunday, I traveled to Bishop Loughlin High School whether I got caught in the rain or held a parasol to escape inglorious sun.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once summer gave way to cooler months, I still enjoyed the indoor <a href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/68215\/the-7-best-things-to-do-in-dumbo-brooklyn\/\">Dumbo<\/a> markets but felt like I was suffering from outdoor-flea withdrawals. (Yes, there is such a thing.) I missed frolicking on the steps and chatting up strangers while standing in food lines. But most of all, I just wanted to feel the energy of a diverse, collective community.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, staring this Saturday, we will once again belong to an outdoor flea when <strong>The Fort Greene Brooklyn Flea<\/strong> returns with its staple of top notch vintage and antique vendors. To celebrate the Flea\u2019s reopening, new partner <a title=\"oM article on gardens in brooklyn\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2007\/09\/22\/brooklyn-botanic-garden-review-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brooklyn Botanic Garden<\/a> and its Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival will decorate the main entrance with a \u201cSakura Set\u201d inspired by five flea vendors who have crafted items for sale only at the market: Bonbon Oiseau\u2019s jewelry, Foxy+Winston Stationery, and kimonos by Kimono Lily to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>New culinary treats will include grilled cheese sandwiches from Saxelby Cheesemongers, Early Bird Granola, and Miss Amy\u2019s preserves. The <a title=\"Dumbo Flea Market\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2009\/01\/09\/pop-goes-the-flea-market-in-dumbo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dumbo Pop-Up<\/a> markets\u2014the flea\u2019s now famous cousins at 76 and 81 Front Street\u2014will respectively showcase vintage antiques and wares from new vendors on Sundays. I can\u2019t wait to train hop to Fort Greene, scour the 40,000-square-foot schoolyard and burn a cheap hole through my wallet. See you there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get there: <\/strong><em>Take any train that goes to Atlantic Ave. or Pacific St. in Brooklyn, including the C train to Brooklyn. Other options include taking the G to Clinton\/Washington or the F to Lafayette Street. Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School is at 357 Clermont Ave., Fort Greene, Brooklyn. For public transportation directions from anywhere on Manhattan, click the HopStop link below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Courtesy of the Brooklyn Flea<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- flickrset: 72157616717395563 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: The Brooklyn Flea When: Every Saturday, starting April 18 Why: Dear Flea-ites, I have a confession to make. I\u2019m a Flea-aholic. I am one of the bazaar&#8217;s nearly 500 followers on Twitter. I visit its blog daily, and I\u2019ve made more cameos to the market than I\u2019m willing to admit. Before the Flea went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":14403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,320,4,851,770,849,752],"tags":[15,205,125,206,84,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-2698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-day-trips","8":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","9":"category-events","10":"category-flea-market-shopping-2","11":"category-food-drink","12":"category-shopping-2","13":"category-subway-2","14":"tag-brooklyn","15":"tag-flea-market","16":"tag-food","17":"tag-fort-greene","18":"tag-shopping","19":"tag-subway"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":14403,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/images-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}