Walk down 7th Avenue until you are smack bang in between 2nd and 1st streets in Brooklyn and you’ll stumble across the school P.S. 321. Weather permitting, all year round on both Saturday and Sunday, you’ll also find the sellers at the Park Slope Flea Market offering their range of clothing, furniture, records and other miscellaneous bric-a-brac in the school’s yard, amongst climbing frames and other playground favourites.

According to one vendor, Park Slope is Brooklyn’s longest running flea, established back in the ’60s. While it’s not as big as it’s counterparts such as the Brooklyn Flea or the Fort Greene Flea, you come to this one to hear the stories of the (mostly eccentric) veteran sellers who will offer one up a yarn at the slightest lend of an ear.

Prices range from extremely low (two plaster pigs for a steal at $25), to moderate (bikes for a couple of hundred dollars), to extremely high (one ’60s coffee table for sale was $1100), making sure that there really is something there for everybody. If you dig deep enough, treasures are there under the mounds of clothes and costume jewelery waiting to be found, dusted off and taken home.




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