Any Brooklyn, New York City residents around?
A friend and I are driving in Sunday to see the ‘Brooklyn Flea’ flea market in the Fort Greene section. Is driving around Brooklyn less harrowing than Manhattan? How’s the street parking around Lafayette Ave.?
Anything we shouldn’t miss/great restaurants in that neighborhood?
I live in Ft. Greene Brooklyn.
It is much less harrowing to drive in Brooklyn than Manhattan.
Parking will be a bit of a challange, but just drive around a bit and I’m sure you’ll find a spot.
Where is this Flea Market that you speak of?
“Brooklyn Flea, the largest outdoor market in New York City, is opening in Fort Greene in April 2008! Every Sunday, starting April 6, the folks at Brownstoner.com, Brooklyn’s best website about real estate and renovation, will bring together top sellers of new and vintage furniture, lighting, records, clothes, jewelry, crafts, and more at a 40,000-square-foot lot at Lafayette and Vanderbilt Avenue in Fort Greene.”
Friend is a flea market fiend, wanted to see what this one is like.
The parking in that area is usually okay … except now the flea market is bringing in a lot of traffic.
The flea market is very, very close to the subway and the LIRR – or did you want the car in case you buy anything car-sized at the flea market?
The subway would be my choice, but friend doesn’t have the stamina anymore for much walking. We’re in Jersey, so it would be several trains. And yes, she’s also likely to fill the trunk with stuff.
Just popping in to say that parking is OK if you’re patient and willing to walk a little. I used to live in Fort Greene and I miss all the cool neighborhood stuff that was always going on.
Ft. Greene has decent parking and that flea market is supposedly pretty awesome. I’ve walked by it but never been into it. There’s also a pretty decent one on North 6th in Williamsburg called, “Artists and Fleas”, which is indoor. Driving in Brooklyn is not as harrowing as Manhattan but it is far more confusing. I call it the ‘shattered glass’ school of civic planning. It looks like someone took a hammer to a couple points in Downtown Brooklyn and then the resulting shards that radiate out from it are the streets. Almost no streets in Brooklyn are parallel to one another. Though where you are going should be rather easy. Just take the Manhattan bridge, and turn off of Flatbush onto Dekalb, you’ll be right in there. Also, I highly recommend a number of restaurants over there. The best are Chez Oskar for sort of frenchified diner fare, Red Bamboo is one of the best vegetarian places in the city but the service is lackluster, and Madiba which is great South African food (Think africanized indian food). All of these are on Dekalb a block or so from the flea market.