Month: September, 2007
Another day, another market
Visited the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market, which was quite a bit more lively than the last time I was here in the dead of winter, despite the holiday weekend.
A sign at the entrance on Ninth Avenue advertised a $1 shuttle ride to the market’s affiliate location at The Garage on 25th Street, but no time for that trip this afternoon. I found a pair of cool, retro-looking chairs and some great, if pricey vintage jewelry, but ultimately left empty-handed. Maybe I’m just all flea-ed out.
The markets always something of a gamble, but in the past, I’ve found the selection here more interesting than at some of the other markets around the city… at least ever since the dealers who once occupied the series of parking lots from 24th to 26th Streets in Chelsea were shuffled out to make way for high-rise, high-priced condos. No rugelach in Hell’s Kitchen, though. But at least now I know where to go if I ever need a full suit of plate armor.
Check out the rest of the pics on flickr. This market even has its own blog: FleaSpeech.
Autumn crafts at Lincoln Center
After much discussion, our annual sojourn to the Cape was postponed by a few months and moved to more tropical climes to accommodate the family’s increasingly tangled web of vacation schedules. This left us with the city almost entirely to ourselves this weekend, as most of the locals were out of town to celebrate summer’s last hurrah.
Each September for the past 30 years, the outdoor plaza at Lincoln Center is converted into a high-end craft market. Applicants are screened by a jury of crafts experts for the approximately 175 slots open for each of two weekends the Autumn Crafts Festival runs.
I spent some time exchanging beach tips for restaurant recommendations with a couple of ivory vendors (whale and mammoth, mostly) who traveled all the way from Hawaii to sell here. I was a bit surprised that a trip from so far away would be worthwhile, until I scanned the application (.pdf) vendors submit to sell at Lincoln Center, which claims that average sales per booth usually exceed $6,000 per weekend.
Six thousand dollars? That’s a load of crafts!
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