The Brooklyn Flea is reviving an endangered species in New York City: the affordable flea market with worthwhile merchandise. In keeping with the regional residential real estate market, the decent, affordable flea market has been priced straight off the Isle of Manhattan and has found a new home in Brooklyn.

Organized by the good folks at the Brownstoner blog, the Brooklyn Flea turns the schoolyard of Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn into an outdoor bazaar filled with both new and previously owned clothing, furniture, arts, crafts, knick-knacks, books and other media. Plus there’s plenty of food concessions for when your stomach starts growling after a morning filled with hardcore shopping.

Buying previously owned merchandise not only often provides savings to your pocketbook, it’s also good for the environment due to the amount of energy saved that would be required in the production and transportation of new items. Plus it helps alleviate the enormous amount of landfill that is devastating the environment in our disposable culture. You can by learning more at Zero Waste America, a non profit seeking to curb the huge amount of senseless garbage produced in the United States.

The Brooklyn Flea

Sundays, 10AM-5PM

Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School

Lafayette Avenue b. Clermont & Vanderbilt Avenues

Fort Greene, Brooklyn

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