On a cold day in late January, Paul LaRosa, an author and CBS producer, and his wife, Susan, were shopping for cheese at the Park Slope/Gowanus Indoor Winter Farmer’s Market at Third Avenue and Third Street when they struck up a conversation at one of the stands with a tall, clean-cut yoga instructor who had just returned from studying meditation in Thailand.
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Eric Demby embodies what has become a quintessential New York type: the Brooklyn family man. The 38-year-old co-founder of the famed, fantastic Brooklyn Flea sports thick-rimmed glasses, an extensive record collection and an adorable 1 year old. In May, Mr. Demby, his wife Liza and his daughter Loe moved into a newly bought, newly built Read More
Flea markets tend to sprout in not the most scenic of settings-flat swaths of blacktop, idling warehouses, abandoned lots. The Brooklyn Flea has never claimed to be your garden-variety chipped pottery and dream-catcher-touting flea, the kind of democratizing assemblage of vendors selling out of the back of station wagons. With its careful selection Read More
Erica Shea was on the Chinatown bus from Boston to New York after Thanksgiving in 2008, reading Burkhard Bilger’s profile of Sam Calagione, the wort-crusted owner of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, in The New Yorker’s food issue. She texted her boyfriend, Stephen Valand, who was visiting relatives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: “We have to Read More
On April 6, a weekly Brooklyn flea market will kick off in Bishop Laughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene, but the event is a far cry from your neighborhood stoop sale or the dusty, glorified junkyards that linger in Manhattan.
For one thing the “Brooklyn Flea” is curated, said founder Jonathan Butler—until Read More
