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Brooklyn flea1/7/2024 “No other way I can say that.” For the first time since Brooklyn Flea launched in 2008, the future of the highly successful market and its many offshoots was thrown into uncertainty.įrom day one, the mission of the Flea had been to bring people together. Owning and operating a series of events designed to draw large crowds to share food, drinks and wares, had suddenly become a huge liability. Like most of Brooklyn, Demby and Butler remained hopeful that things would return to normal in a few weeks. By the time the order was issued, they had already closed down their markets, and in April, they let the lease expire on their office. Instead of using the month to prepare for the busy season ahead, the Flea and Smorgasburg organizers put everything on hold on March 12. “I mean, we kind of saw it coming, but it couldn’t have been worse timing,” Demby says. And so Demby, along with co-founder Jonathan Butler, decided to call it. And hosting indoor markets began to feel irresponsible. Even in the weeks before the official New York COVID-19 stay-at-home order was issued on March 20, going to events had started to feel, well, weird. It was never a given that they’d make it. But due to some quick thinking-and nimble pivoting-over the past nine months, he has been able to ensure the survival of the marketplace staples Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg, both of which he co-founded, through a brutal year. As March had barely gotten underway, Eric Demby was early to the realization that everyday life was about to change irrevocably.
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