The north side of the
Williamsburg neighborhood is known for it's young, single, and trendy "hipsters" populating this once industrial area of Brooklyn Only a ten minute ride from Manhattan on the L subway line, it's full of coffee shops, restaurants, art galleries, bars, and vintage markets and boutiques. Mixed in with the modest immigrant housing of the past are new high rise luxury condos and lofts. It's a fun place to walk around, window shop, and enjoy its urban energy.
Which is exactly what a friend and I were doing not long ago when we came upon this half open garage located at 567 Driggs Avenue, off North 6th Street with a view as far as our eyes could see of vintage used goods for sale. The store is appropriately named "JUNK," and is open 9 AM -9 PM, seven days a week.
How could we resist? We had to walk in to browse along its aisles bursting with all kinds of antiques...
...and architectural salvage. I'm glad I had my little pocket Cannon camera with me so I could show you a few of the items we saw.
I was especially fascinated by the very large selection of antique bottles and cans of all kinds and from all eras, complete with their vintage dust and dirt still adhered to them. It is as if they had been unearthed in an archaeology dig, or more likely from a dark basement of a house torn down to make way for a new high rise.
We also saw aisle and aisles of vintage china and bric-a-brac.
Did we buy anything? Not really, as I'm trying to downsize my life right now and not add to my possessions, but it was an interesting place to poke around and explore.
If you are interested in visiting some flea markets and vintage shops in Brooklyn
New York Magazine has locations listed on their web site for Williamsburg on
this link, and the AOL real estate web site has a guide to Brooklyn Flea Markets and Thrift Shops on
this link.
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61 comments:
What a great shop! I would love to wander around that area....fun!
How fun. I could (and have) stayed in places like this for hours on end.
Sam
OH wow!! I can be young hip and trendy! I'll blend in here, no problemo! LOL! OH but it's lovely - I love how this antiques shop/garage looks - it's all over the place and therefore makes hunting around really really fun and intense! I guess the dust adds to their quirky charm! LOL!
Apps?!?! I have no idea about apps and refuse to learn about them unless I really really really have to! LOL! Plus I don't own a mobile phone! So I don't really know about such things... I know I'll have to eventually but I'm being such a rebel! See? I can so fit in with the hip n happening crowd here! Yay!
Thanks for a most wonderful trip to this awesome place, Pat! Take care
x
If I can ever get a trip in to NY that is not packed with meetings or other agendas, I'm headed to Brooklyn! I've been wanting to take one of the Brooklyn food tours and now your post...a flea market tour too! So exciting!!
Looks like a fun afternoon Pat! Gotta chuckle at the shelf of beer cans... kinda looks like a dorm room:@)
The old items looked fun to explore. Did they have good prices or were they "antique" mark ups? I love a good find!
My favorite kind of shopping!
All of this was in that garage? And all so neatly displayed, too. The wheat pattern dishes, we used to have them!!! They gave them away free when you bought gas, way back in the 50's and 60's.
That is the kind of shop I love. Can walk around there, bring some old books there because of downsizing and do go home with other books and sometimes cups and saucers or glasses or..... LOL
Good that you had your camera with you Have a good week Pat.
So much better than a mall for shopping. This post got my yard sale juices flowing Pat...you just never know what you might find!
♥, Susan
I would have loved that place! I enjoy digging for hidden treasure in a place like that.
My poor phone is the cell phone equivalent of a rotary dial phone. I don't even have texting. Needless to say, there are no apps.
What an Aladdin's Cave!
Fabulous places to prowl around! You are making me salivate for the spring auctions and estate sales!
I would have been in heaven! I love to meander around and look at salvage and vintage items.
It's bad enough that you take me globe trotting, but now you are taking me thrifting ... enough I say ... enough!!!!!! (I'm still willing to carry your bags ... traveling or shopping).
What a great place. I could hours roaming around a place like that. I know what you mean about trying to down size possession.
exciting...I'm very selective in my thrift purchases these days...but this is a fantastic place just to look!
I love poking around in shops like that, but like you, if anything new comes in the house, something has to go.
I've been talking about exploring in Williamsburg with my daughter. Now we'll definitely have to go! It would be great to have you join Seasonal Sundays.
- The Tablescaper
I never think about what kind of thrift shopping you might have...but WOW! I see lots of neat things that I would love to have! And thanks for the link for the apps. We don't have an Ipad yet...but we're saving for one! ♥
Oh wow....that looks like a great place. I could have gotten lost in there for hours and there's no way I could have left empty-handed. Even though I'm downsizing too. I must not be as disciplined as you are. :)
Oh my goodness, Pat - how could you walk away without buying anything?? I couldn't do it. Even if, like you, I'm trying to downsize a bit. (Not that that stops me buying books!)
This is the sort of place that is like heaven on earth for me.
One of these days I'm going to have to come to Brooklyn and we'll take a walk through some of the charming neigborhoods you show so lovingly on your blog. :)
Looks like a treasure chest. V
I could get lost in a place like that for hours! Looks like a great time in Williamsburg.
Oh that place looks so intriguing! I hear the kids talking about apps, but it's all lost on me...so far.
Pat I can feel the energy of the area through your photos. And thanks for all that app info, I may need it someday! Even if I don't buy I do enjoy roaming around thrift shops. It's like a step back in time, or visit to my childhood, if not the early days of our marriage!
I could spend a lot of time browsing in this place. It's always interesting to see something that you have in your kitchen cupboard in a thrift or antique shop.
Pat, this looks like a fun place to snoop around. Like you, I'm working at not bringing more things into our home. I'm not completely there yet, but I'm making progress. LOL
That certainly looks like a great and fun area to visit. Thanks for giving links to the Williamsburg flea markets and vintage shops – we may go there when we are in New York in May.
I would have loved to go shopping there, Pat, looks like fun!..Christine
What an interesting post the next I am lucky enough to travel to NY a tour of Brooklyn is a must.
HI Pat, what a neat neighborhood and shop. Looks like a fun place to look for treasures. Thanks for sharing the links and your photos. Have a great week!
O my gosh,
I was in williamsburg Brooklyn in the 80's, it looked like a war zone, I was afraid. My friend had a wall paper mfg there.
Royal Handprints. He told me that years ago it was the heart of ole Vaudeville. I spoted a 1950's samsonite luggage. Loved the post.
glad to hear a high rose went in.
That would have been fun rummaging around in the garage. You were strong to resist buying. I see you are a tech savvy grandma. We saw a news item today about the lack of privacy connected with Android Apps. Some can access your email program and read emails,
They have a lot of stuff to sell :-) hope they make more money :-) great pictures too, see lots of blue :-) Visiting from Blue Monday, hope that you can return the visit too.
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I am sure I would have found a nice basket for my spring flower arrangements.
In one of the designer magazines I noticed old luggage decorated and used for a coffee table.
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Millie,
the new York Botanical Garden features right now...
The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens
March 3-April 22, 2012.
http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show/
Interested?
Love to see pictures from this one of a kind orchid show.
- cheers Gisela
my new blog...
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features orchids as well.
Such FUN! I am at a point where I am not collecting so much, and liking the whole "less is more" esthetic... this would break me, I think...LOL! ;o) Happy Week, Pat ((HUGS))
Oh Pat, this is my kind of dream shopping trip. We have some an urban area here with shops but nothing that compares to this wonderful area. Would love to visit your fabulous city someday. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
Ann
Thanks for taking me along on your shopping trip. There were plenty of interesting items.
Happy Blue Monday, Pat.
All those apps make me dizzy!
I'd have enjoyed poking around that shop, but like you, I'd have resisted bringing anything home.
Oh, I love thrift shopping! Good finds:)
Visiting for Blue Monday- hope you can stop by:)
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Wow Looks like a fun day! Thanks for sharing Joann Pleases come and follow my new blog.I will follow you back.Had to delete the old one Joann
What an interesting shop. I can spend all day there just looking at those stuff.
My Blue Monday.
So much to see. My Sis in Law just moved to Knickerbocker Ave in Brooklyn when she got married. She used to live on 43 E and 6th Ave--are they anywhere near?
John
Thanks for you comments everyone! I will be on the lookout for more fun Thrift Shops as I waklk around other NYC neighborhoods.
Diane B-- I agree one has to be careful when downloading apps. That is why I like appSmitten --they test out the apps and recommend reliable ones from certified sources.
Gisela--I visited the NY Botanical Garden's orchid show last year! It was beautiful. her eis the URL from that post:
http://millefiorifavoriti.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-york-botanical-garden-orchid-show.html
wow!! my still my beating heart, just the site of those vintage suitcases makes me shiver with excitement ... i think if i visited, i would come back with arms full!
Oh be still my heart! lol That looks like a wonderful place to browse! Thanks for sharing, Pat! xoxo
If I'd been with you I'd have purchased the wheat plates for the Farmer's birthday. That must have been so much fun to wander through and look at all those "treasures"!
Wow, what a fun place to shop and browse! I'm with you on the downsizing part ;)
Off to check out that app site!
I never think of Bklyn having garage sales. I always get a kick out of trying to sell one glass. But I guess if it is just the one you are missing, eureka! Do you think they charge extra for the dirt? Lol
Thanks for the tour!
Wow those are beautiful! ^_^
Crab Apple
Looks like you had a great place to browse! Blessings, Debbie
Looks like you had a great place to browse! Blessings, Debbie
Hello Pat...you had me at Thrift. I adore schlepping through thrift shops and this location would have been pure joy for me.
Hi lovely lady.
I would have loved that place! I enjoy digging for hidden treasure in a place like that.Thanks so much for your sweet comments on my new Tablescape. I hope you come follow my Linky and I will follow you back.
XXOO Diane
So many collections!
Star Wars Blues in Disney World, please come and see.
OK, so exactly how long did you spend in that FAAAABULOUS collection of goodies?? I don't think I'd have been able to tear myself away very quickly ... but the longer I stayed, the more I'd want to buy!!!
I'd like to plunder around in there, too. It looks like fun.
I think I might have walked out of there with a vintage suitcase I spied under a table!
Great tips, thanks!
Robin
The shop in your photos is JUNK - it's located at 567 Driggs (between 6th & 7th) it's opened 9-9, seven days a week. Thanks for stopping by!
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