Flea Market Heaven in NYC: Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market Finds
After a summer in and out of flea markets, auctions, thrift shops too many to count, vintage snapshots remained frustratingly out of reach. Saturday on the phone with my mother, cranky that summer was ending, cranky in general, feeling cooped up my mom suggested we try the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market. We hopped on the bus, made a pit stop at my favorite City Bakery (my standard antidote to most stress) and then headed towards the West 25th Street Market between Sixth Avenue and Fifth Avenue. This weekend outdoor flea market features up to 125 vendors selling antiques, collectibles, and other types of vintage and retro decorative arts. It was just what I needed! There were photos galore, amid used clothings, vintage velvet love seats, gay porno, vintage militrialia, and tools. 7th heaven. Then, we headed towards the Garage across the street, an indoor market with slightly higher quality goods housed on two floors of a car garage. Beautiful prints, vintage stationery supplies (triple yum), postcards, stamps, china, lamps, lots of prints.
Now that our apartment is pretty well full of every decorative object T. can tolerate, I’ve decided to start selling some of my vintage finds on Etsy since I love the hunt so much The lifeguard snap above is for sale as are some other finds from this summer (glasswear and dish towels). Give it a look and let me know what you think!
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September 4th, 2007 03:31
That sounds great, I would have loved to see that. What were the vintage stationary supplies, sounds interesting? There’s an outdoor market in Brighton (too far away to go very often) where there are two brothers in their 60s who sell boxes and boxes of old tools. I love those old wooden, well-made things that are worn from good use, they just become more beautiful the older they get as opposed to most things you can buy today.
September 5th, 2007 08:43
That sounds like a lot of fun- the flea markets in my neck of the woods are pretty lame…
September 30th, 2007 00:27
The Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market is on W. 39th St. between 9/10th Ave.
September 30th, 2007 09:22
Thanks Anne — I spent most of my time at the West 25th street location (the Garage).
Caroline, I love old tools too! The vintage stationery was stamps, stickers, ink pens, ink, some price tags.