Market season in NYC is in high gear. From food and drink markets where you can sample the best local eats (old and new favorites), the city has to offer, complete with stunning views and live entertainment. Local makers and artisans are also popping up showcasing unique home and wellness items to vintage goods. Check out our guide and plug into the best markets to explore this summer!
Updated 7/8/2022
FOOD & DRINK MARKETS
Queens Night Market
The Queens Night Market is an open-air night market in Queens, featuring up to 100 independent vendors selling merchandise, art, and food and featuring small-scale cultural performances, all celebrating the rich cultural diversity and heritage of NYC and Queens.
Location: New York Hall of Science, 4701 111th Street
Days/Times: Saturdays, 5pm-midnight. Through October, with a break during the US Open (August 29th-September 11th)
Brooklyn Night Market
BKNM features 40+ local vendors – small business owners – sharing delicious food, tasty treats, eclectic handmade items, and arts & culture artifacts. Kicks off on June 27th celebrating Bajans’ famous Oistins Fish Fry with traditional grub, drink, and music as part of BARBADOS WEEK.
Location: Industry City, 36th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
Days/Times: Last Monday of the month, 4-10pm. Through November.
Uptown Night Market
Featuring 50+ eclectic vendors, Uptown Night Market represents some of the city’s best culinary, packaged goods, and arts & crafts offerings. Dozens of local musicians and performers from every genre also take part, such as Harlem Late Night Jazz and DJ Cosi.
Location: Under the Arches of Harlem, 12th Avenue and 135th Street.
Days/Times: Second Thursday of the month, 4-10pm. Through November.
Smorgasburg
Smorgasburg is the largest weekly open-air food market in America, attracting thousands of people to eat from dozens of local vendors. You can also find them at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! this summer.
Smorgasburg Prospect Park
Location: Prospect Park, Breeze Hill. Enter at Lincoln Road
Days/Times: Sundays, 11am-6pm
Smorgasburg WTC
Location: Outside of The Oculus, Fulton and Church Streets
Days/Times: Fridays, 11am-7pm
Smorgasburg Williamsburg
Location: At Marsha P. Johnson State Park, 90 Kent Avenue
Days/Times: Saturdays, 11am-6pm
Smorgasburg Jersey City
Location: Harborside Place at Hudson Street
Days/Times: Saturdays, 11am-6pm
*Features a ‘Smorgasbar’ beer garden
Bronx Night Market
Enjoy your favorite food and beverage vendors plus a ton of new, exciting, food-porn, delicious grub. At Bronx Night market you can shop locally with a rotation of more than two dozen arts and crafts merchants, experience Uptown-based live performances and art installations on the large stage, or visit their Instagram Wall-O-Fame, kid zone, and food education booths.
Location: Fordham Plaza, 1 Fordham Plaza
Days/Times: Last Saturday of the month, 1-7pm. Through November.
Chinatown Night Market
Join Think!Chinatown for their summer series of food, art & music at the iconic gateway of the Manhattan Bridge. This open-air cultural festival features Chinatown-focused programming alongside local art & food vendors.
Artisans of traditional folk art crafts like paper cutting art, sugar painting, and braided straw figures will demonstrate their art form which will be available for purchase.
Location: Forsyth Plaza (Forsyth & Canal Streets)
Day/Times: Friday nights throughout the summer (June 3rd, July 8th, August 12th, September 9th, October 14th), 8-11pm *Check Think!Chinatown’s website for upcoming dates as they get closer.
FLEA MARKETS
Hester Street Fair
Known for its highly curated selection of NYC’s artisanal fashion, art, design, jewelry, crafts, music, and food vendors, Hester Street Fair features a space that connects entrepreneurs and brands, that are unique to Downtown Manhattan. Upcoming events include an Ice Cream Social, a celebration for Jamaican Independence Day, and others. You can also find their food vendors at Bryant Park’s Picnic Performances and Movie Nights this summer!
Location: The Seaport, Pier 17, 89 South Street
Days/Times: Saturdays, 11am-6pm. Through October.
Greenpoint Terminal Market
This one-of-a-kind marketplace features creatives, food vendors & local shops. They offer an outdoor environment to discover your new favorite local vendors. Every Saturday also features a theme, like Artdoorsy Saturday, Around the World Saturday, and others.
Location: 2 Noble Street, right off the East River
Days/Times: Saturdays and Sundays, 10am-6pm. Through September.
Brooklyn Popup at Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Pop-Up is a curated storefront and outdoor retail event with a revolving group of artisans and vendors. Featuring contemporary fashion, accessories, home goods, beauty, wellness, and jewelry vendors as well as artists, and artisanal distillers. They also have a DJ and local food vendors.
Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
Days/Times: Sundays, 10:30am-5:30pm. Through Mid-November.
Brooklyn Popup at Fort Greene Park
Aside from Brooklyn Museum, you can shop the best of Brooklyn with a revolving roster of 20+ artisans, designers, and makers selling contemporary fashion, accessories, home goods, beauty, jewelry, and more! Coincides with the Fort Greene Park Greenmarket.
Location: Fort Greene Park, 85 S Oxford Street
Days/Times: Saturdays, 9am-4pm. Year-Round.
Harlem Bazaar
Harlem Bazaar is the largest arts & culture market in uptown and The Bronx, for artists, merchants, and vendors to showcase their skills. You can look forward to arts & crafts, apparel & accessories, culture, gifts & knick-knacks, body & self-care, live performances, an activity zone, and much more.
Location: State Office Building, 125th Avenue & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.
Days/Times: Third Friday of the month, 2-8pm. Through October.
Chelsea Flea
Focused on high-quality antiques, unique vintage goods, architectural salvage, and collectibles, Chelsea Flea features 50-60 Vintage + Antiques Vendors.
Location: 29 West 25th Street (btw. 5th + 6th Ave.)
Days/Times: Saturdays & Sundays, 8am-5pm. Year-Round.
Brooklyn Flea
Brooklyn Flea features hundreds of top vendors of furniture, vintage clothing, collectibles, and antiques, as well as a tightly curated selection of jewelry, art, and crafts by local artisans and designers, plus delicious fresh food.
Location: 80 Pearl Street, DUMBO
Days/Times: Saturdays & Sundays, 10 am-5pm. Through December.
Grand Bazaar
Grand Bazaar NYC is the oldest, largest curated weekly shopping market in New York City, where 100% of their profits benefit programming for four local public schools. Over 150 local independent artists, designers, craft-makers, and independent vintage and antique dealers sell one-of-a-kind, rare, and limited edition goods. Great artisanal bites included! They also host special themed events and pop-ups, including a Summer Brunch & Shop and Ice Cream Blizzard.
Location: 100 W 77th Street (at Columbus Ave.)
Days/Times: Sundays, 10am-5pm. Year-Round.
Artists & Fleas Williamsburg
Artists & Fleas Williamsburg is home to 50+ individual sellers to showcase and discover what’s new and exciting in fashion, vintage, art, design, and more.
Location: 70 North 7th Street
Days/Times: Saturdays & Sundays, 11am-6pm. Year-Round.
Artists & Fleas Chelsea Market
Located directly beneath the High Line, Artists & Fleas at Chelsea Market features 30+ sellers, new tastemakers, experience creators, designers, collectors, and curators who debut weekly. It’s also situated with easy access to the market’s dozens of eateries, specialty food purveyors, and shops.
Location: 88 10th Avenue at West 15th Street
Days/Times: Daily, 11am-7pm. Year-Round.
FAD Market Governors Island Pop-up
FAD Market on Governors Island features a rotating lineup of over 30 of the city’s emerging makers, designers, artists, and small businesses. You can scope out handcrafted jewelry, art, apparel, bath and body care, tableware, home furnishings, artisanal packaged food, and more.
Location: Governors Island, Kings Avenue
Days/Times: Third weekend of the month, 11am -5pm. Through October.
FAD Market Summer Pop-up
This summer, join FAD Market at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill — they’ll be hosting two summer makers markets celebrating the creative energy of New York City. Come shop a rotating roster of handcrafted goods from over 50 makers, designers, and small businesses each weekend — everything from impeccably-crafted jewelry and apparel to bath and body care, tableware, home furnishings, and artisanal packaged food.
Location: The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street
Days/Times: Saturday, July 9th and Sunday July 10th, 11am-6pm; Saturday, August 20th and Sunday August 21st, 11am-5pm; Saturday, September 17th and Sunday, September 18th, 11am-5pm; Saturday, October 15th and Sunday, October 16th, 11am-4:30pm
