Brooklyn Flea

After the High Line, my second favourite New York experience was a trip to Brooklyn Flea. A fabulous vintage market selling furniture, fashion and food. Mr & Mrs That's Not My Age are like trained sniffer dogs when it comes to bric-a-brac, from a dusty Spanish car park to a random yard sale in Blackpool - wherever we are in the world, we'll find the man with the table full of tat. Anyhow, there's no tat here, the Flea is pretty classy, and it overwinters in the former Williamsburg Savings Bank:



Set over three floors this gorgeous old building (now known as Skylight One Hanson) feels like a movie set. The original details, including the tellers' windows and basement vaults complete with enormous metal security door, are all intact. The day we went to Brooklyn, the wind chill factor was brutal. I haven't cried because my ears are cold since I was about six-years-old but on that Saturday in February, a hatless woman wept. If you're in the area, and trying to dodge the vicious weather, Brooklyn Flea is indoors till the end of March and moves outside (to a different location) in April.





Here's our booty. A battered metal globe and a 1940s subway map (just back from the picture framers):





Do you have a favourite market?