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Hell's Kitchen Flea Market part of another TONY walk

National Geographic put Hell's Kitchen Flea Market on the map when the market was featured among 10 great shopping street in the world.

New York Magazine rightly deemed HKFM a neighborhood fixture with the opening words of its Hell's Kitchen South real estate article, "The flea market has settled in for good."

Now Time Out New York (August 21-27 issue) names us the second stop of "The homolicious walk," a "mini Pride march."

HKFM was also part of the NYC Flea Markets Walk that Time Out recommended.

Shining In The Sun

Hell's Kitchen Flea Market was profiled in The New York Sun recently. Some highlights from the article:

"I couldn't do what I do back home in South Jersey," a dealer specializing in mid-century Modern furniture, Len Griffen, said. "[At Hell's Kitchen Flea Market] I find every type of customer, and most of them have apartments they need to furnish."
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[Maggie] Rose said that most of the antiques she sells in Hell's Kitchen come from the estates of people she knew in New Hampshire. Hearing about an item's history makes New Yorkers feel they're inheriting something special. "I have a mirror that two friends chipped in to buy. It belonged to a lady named Millie who taught the deaf for 40 years in our town. She'd be happy it's going to a good home in New York City," she said.

Read the whole article here.