UPDATE: In 2014 The Chelsea Garage did in fact close. Read about it at Jeremiah's Vanishing New York. My story below is from 2009:
Here Be Old Things is about where to find antiques and collectibles in New York City. But as I research this site, I keep coming up against this realization: there USED to be a lot of great places, but they're vanishing, fast.
The Soho Flea Market disappeared under the Soho Grand Hotel. The Chelsea Flea Market was hit by a luxury high-rise, with a large chunk landing in Hell's Kitchen and a smaller piece over on 17th Street and 6th Ave. There are buildings on 25th street that I remember as warrens of little shops and stalls worthy of an entire Saturday afternoon's browsing, but the excitement lives only in my memory, because the vendors were sent packing years ago.
Now, it appears, the same fate awaits the Chelsea Antiques Garage. The building has been Extell Development for $42.7 million. The blogger Jeremiah at Jeremiah's Vanishing New York spoke to a dealer who "got it straight from the owner" that 2008 will be the market's last year.
Oh, say it ain't so ...
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