We were excited to see Vivienne Tam of the New York Post's new Sunday magazine give Hell's Kitchen Flea Market a great write-up.
Vivienne noted that HKFM was "packed with clothes from the '20s, '50s and '60s."
Happy Independence Day, everyone!
Congrats to the South Park Flea Market on getting approval to have certified farmers at their flea market, which also features music.
NYC FLEA MARKET WALK as featured in Time Out New York . . .
What could be a better way to pass a sunny spring afternoon in Manhattan than a flea market walk?
Ashlea Halpern of Time Out New York created a FLEA MARKET WALK - click here to read the details. It runs from Hell's Kitchen Flea Market, down into Chelsea, and then to Union Square. The tour even tells you where there are restrooms along the way!
The contributer named Mel on the Moleskincity.com site for New York City recently offered some advice about Hell's Kitchen Flea Market:
There are definitely great bargains to be had at the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market, but you are going to have to work for them. Here are a few tips that worked for me: Don’t sleep in; these vendors love to pack up by 4:30pm. Check the forecast; the best deals are found during lousy weather, when the sellers are feeling especially desperate. Also note that the more things you buy from the same vendor, the less you’ll end up paying for each item. Be sure to bargain; it is not like Chinatown but you can still make them an offer. This collection of vendors have all your typical flea market commodities: books, broaches...and vintage clothing plus the more random Victorian couches and tables, tea sets, and a decent collection of taxidermy. The Flea Market is held every Saturday and Sunday from 9am-6pm on 39th between 9th and 10th.
(Photo from the On The Inside's review of Hell's Kitchen Flea Market.)
HKFM's most recent contribution to WIW. :)
"Shades: F21
Dress: vintage, thrifed Columbus Ave Flea Market
Broach: Ebay
Handbag: vintage, thrifted Hell's Kitchen Flea Market
Scarf (as belt): J. Crew
Bracelet: Goodwill
Opal Ring: gift
Shoes: Naturalizers"
The Wichita Eagle featured an informative Q & A article, "Personalize your decor with flea-market finds," in its Home & Garden section. The respondent is Mary Carol Garrity.
It's no wonder that the Alternative Consumer blog caught up with Sue Whitney at Hell's Kitchen Flea Market recently during a book signing for Junk Beautiful. Flea market fans include a lot of environmentally conscious consumers and designers.
Copies of Junk Beautiful are available at Hell's Kitchen Flea Market's information booth at the special price of $20.
A strong segment of flea market shoppers includes those who repurpose old things of a more miscellaneous nature. No wonder flea market fans include environmentally conscious consumers and designers. With a bit of creativity (and sometimes some basic DYI supplies) an old birdcage can be transformed into a lampshade, an incomplete vintage croquet set into as an umbrellas stand.
(Photo: Old card catalogs show up at flea markets from time to time. Many libraries have switched entirely to electronic cataloging and no longer need their old card catalogs. Bits and Bobbins highlighted the repurposing of an old card catalog as attractive storage or organizing furniture.)
As New York Magazine declared in August 2006, Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market “has settled in for good.” Foot traffic at Hell's Kitchen Flea Market, running the block of West 39th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, is at an all-time high. It's offering residents and tourists alike an always-changing (and growing) inventory of vintage fashion, decorative arts, and design treasures. There's a real committed core of vendors and dealers there.
Why does it take a while for a flea market to get its bearings though? Because change costs time, money, and energy.
Locations change (Hell's Kitchen instead of Chelsea).
Customers change (Post-eBay young professional in Manhattan are a growing chunk of today's flea market customers).
Tastes change. (What's hot now is mid-century antiques--1950's and 1960's decorative arts and furniture; also, vintage clothing is hot.)
There's a new flea marketing opening in Bethlehem, CT! Learn more online here.
Vintage Violent visited the flea market last Saturday (say that three times real fast) for her website.
Brrrrr. Was cold last Saturday at the market!
You can view a slideshow of her market pics here.
HELL'S KITCHEN FLEA MARKET
is pleased to welcome
Junkmarket Style Maven Sue Whitney on
Saturday, March 29th
from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
(Click here to learn more)
*SPECIAL PRESENTATION AT NOON.*
West 39th Street at 9th Avenue
Every Saturday and Sunday
We loved the vintage feel that Je m'appelle Liz gave this photo and this one, both taken at Hell's Kitchen Flea Market on a cooooooold day.
Look how she made the corners of the photograph look like they have been placed in an old album. And the photo with the various cookie jars looks like it's right out of the 1940's with it's shallow depth of field and some sort of tint or filter over it to make it look a bit aged. (At least, we think there's a tint on the photo! What do we know? We're not photo experts!)
Anyway, these are really cool images. As always on this blog, you can click on the image to enlarge it. Better yet, follow the links above to go right to even better representations of the images on flickr.com
(Liz's images: some rights reserved.)
Not even the rain kept shoppers away. Play Me Design had some good shopping luck at Hell's Kitchen Flea Market, despire the freezing temps, too!
We love it when Hell's Kitchen gets good press. Did you catch the recent article in amNewYork? The flea market got a mention, and we're grateful for that, too, of course! We agree with the headline of the article: Hell's Kitchen is sizzling!
