180 Seventh Avenue between 1st and 2nd Street, Park Slope
Saturdays and Sundays 9 am–6 pm
I visited P.S. 321 in Brooklyn on a bad day for flea marketing: temperature in the 90s, threat of storms, and the weekend in August before Labor Day. Everyone in New York except me and a few lonely vendors seemed to have been smart enough to get out of town. The goods were displayed on playground equipment in front of the building and leaned towards the description vintage and garage sale. Michael Taylor at Accentiques (337 Flatbush), however, had promised that I'd find some interesting items, even some furniture, so this market might be worth checking out in better weather.
Seventh Avenue is the heart of Park
Slope and a trip out here gives you a great chance to visit Brooklyn.
When you exit the Q train on Flatbush, check out the lap-top gazing hoarde at Heights Coffee, right next to Accentiques, or continue down Seventh Avenue to Ozzie's at Lincoln Place or Cousin John's Cafe and Bakery at Berkeley Place (they used to have chocolate bread on Sundays). Walk up Flatbush or Union to Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park, or walk around the neighborhood and scope out the famous brownstones.
"Mention records," one vendor at the flea told me. "People come for records." So there's the word, you record hounds.
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