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March 29 - Sue Whitney presentation, book signing

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

HKFM voted NYC's best flea market in Village Voice poll

Hell's Kitchen Flea Market was voted NYC's BEST FLEA MARKET in The Village Voice 2007 Readers' Choice Poll! W are honored and excited! Thank you, everyone!

Flea market help: interior designer's kit

One of the main reasons people shop at flea markets is to find decorative items for an apartment or house.

Designer and flea market shopping expert SFGirlByBay shares a great tip with her readers: create a "Trusty Little Designer's Helper Pouch" for when you shop. She writes:

When you have your handy, dandy pouch along with it helps take the guessing out of whether a flea market or yard sale purchase (which, do remember, you can't return) will work when you get it home. Or whether that fabric or accessory will compliment your living-room paint. If that pillow will really offset the sofa color the way you've been envisioning.

Parisian flea market style

Hat-tip to blog, Tea & Tattered Pages, through which we discovered this interesting book by a Japanese publisher about Parisian vintage/flea market style in apartments.

Another flea market fire

This from the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia:

The South Augusta Flea Market,1652 Doug Barnard Parkway, is on fire and flames have spread to the nearby woods.

Augusta-Richmond County Fire Department Lt. Neal Brown said the entire market is on fire and the thick black smoke rising from the burn is because of the old wood the market was built from.

"Flea Market Style"

Here's a great book for flea market fans: Flea Market Style, by Emily Chalmers (Author), Ali Hanan (Author), Debi Treloar (Photographer).

Eastern Market fire

Horrible news via blogger The Greenbelt: the Eastern Market caught fire. But, it sounds like the outdoor flea market will be okay.

Eastern Market is over 130 years old. The North Hall - where the craftsmakers and artists hav their shops - was spared, and the main building's flower and flea market stalls weren't burned, but the old building suffered a lot of damage. The outdoor flea market, at least, will open this weekend - who knows how long it will take to get the rest of the Market open again? DC officials announced yesterday that reconstruction work will begin at once.

Flea poetry

Blogger Silliman praises the poety of Lewis Walsh's, The Flea Market in Kiel.

"Found Style"

Major hat-tip to Design*Sponge for letting us know about Found Style, a great book--filled with great photographs--in which the authors, David and Amy Butler, "do a great job of educating us in flea market savvy, and blending vintage and modern with unexpected panache without being too fussy or cluttered."

Design*Sponge continues, "Found Style is the perfect guide to creating an eclectic personal style, and with over 200 color photos, there's something here for every taste."

11 Spring Street

A great urban art adventure.

[T]his past fall, at 11 Spring Street, an abandoned building in downtown New York (which was temporarily donated for the event), [urban curators Marc and Sara Schiller] organized one of the most significant exhibitions of street art ever. Artists from all over the world came to the vacant space to plaster, paint, solder, glue, and otherwise make their mark on the building before it was converted to condominiums. When the space opened to the public for three days last December, tens of thousands of people lined up for blocks to enter.

Here's the video on YouTube.