ALEXANDRA JACOBS GOES SHOPPING: Brooklyn Weekend Edition
November 16, 2011
In this week's Thursday Styles, Alexandra Jacobs retakes the Critical Shopper mantle and takes it to the Dekalb Market in Brooklyn, on of the borough's proliferating flea markets. What we took away from her report was that she doesn't seem to care for flea markets that much. At the very least, she is not an eagle eyed devotee who will waake at the crack of dawn to get first pick of whtever unknown treasures are hidden amongst the offerings. She can take them or leave them, and while she doesn't discourage the casual browser, she is not particularly compelled to buy anything herself.
There is also what seems to be a glut of merchandise destined to end up at ... well, dirtier flea markets. Shearling gloves without fingertips, so you can manipulate a smartphone even in the dead of winter; Moleskine notebooks ($32) for scribbling one’s increasingly rare offline thoughts. And far too many Etsyish souvenirs of the borough’s transformation, like Fort Greene-“flavored” cleansing gel, and ceramic coffee cups reading, ho ho, “I Got Mugged in Brooklyn.”
Well, that doesn't really sound like anything worth running to Brooklyn for, does it?
Dekalb Market 138 Willoughby Street, downtown Brooklyn
Critical Shopper: Brooklyn’s Dekalb Market: A Tidy Flea, but What to Buy? By Alexandra Jacobs (NYTimes)
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