Urban Space is a leading developer and manager of specialty retail markets in the United States and Great Britain, drawing more than 15 million visitors to its projects annually. We find and showcase the best in independent designers, chefs and boutiques. Our markets in New York and London are the best places to shop, explore, meet friends and discover something new!
Dekalb Market Spring Weekender
APRIL 7 & 8 // 10AM-6PM
138 Willoughby Street
Brooklyn NY 11201
- Beer & wine garden featuring Mimosa Morning with $1 mimosas til 2pm, Prosecco & local craft beers
- Easter egg hunt at noon both days for kids and adults including a lucky golden prize egg!
- Petting Zoo from 11am-2pm
- Curated flower and garden market
- Free butterfly & fairy face painting
- Classes & workshops for adults and children centered around cooking, farming, gardening, and crafting offered by Family Cooks
- Textile Arts Center weaving and natural dying workshop
- Rooftop Farms offer their expertise on alternative urban farming
The world’s premier Jazz-Age dance orchestra, steeped in the hot-dance band tradition of the 1920s and early 1930s. Their size ranges from a full dance orchestra to smaller incarnations. They play their “Hot-and-Sweet” music anywhere that fine and eclectic tastes meet.
Daptone Record’s Naomi Shelton is an unbeatable James Brown-shimmying, sequin-wearing, soul-singing powerhouse! Backed by her fantastic Gospel Queens and band, her performance is not to be missed!
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SAVE THE DATE: Dekalb Market’s new TWILIGHT MARKET begins on 4.28.2012!
Roller skates, lobsters, and bike-ins. Get with it! It’s a super, sexy, cool Dekalb Market re-opening in April. More flavor, more awesome-ness, more must-do’s coming to Downtown Brooklyn. Oh and there will be beer and wine…nuff said.
1. Shop and eat outside at Hester Street Fair
This pretty, tree-lined Lower East Side market packs in shoppers every weekend with a killer combination of stylish vintage wares—retro jewelry, antique decor and old-fashioned hats—and one of the best collections of food vendors in Manhattan. Delicious new stalls include Williamsburg darling Pies ‘n’ Thighs, artisanal ice cream parlor Ample Hills Creamery and boozy cupcakery Prohibition Bakery. Look out for surprising booths, like Compass Yoga who will assess your posture and align in you a suitable pose for $1 on opening day. Hester St at Essex St (hesterstreetfair.com). Sat 10am–6pm. Opens Apr 28.
2. Drink on rooftops
Take advantage of New York’s enviable views by getting buzzed at a rooftop bar. Among Manhattan’s wealth of hotel toppers, we recommend Upstairs on the 31st floor of the Kimberly. The urbane setting, with ivy-covered walls and nary a cabana in sight, is best experienced at night, when the canopy of lightbulbs strung above the terrace sets off the sight of the Chrysler Building. For more great vistas, check out our guide to rooftop bars in New York. 145 E 50th St between Lexington and Third Aves (212-888-1220,upstairsnyc.com). Mon–Wed 5pm–1am; Thu, Fri 5pm–2am; Sat 11:30am–3:30pm, 6pm–2am; Sun 11:30am–11pm.
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In an article by the New York Observer, Dekalb Market made the cut for “The Best New Architecture of 2011”. We’ve worked hard to make it the best public space for everyone to enjoy. Cool design + cool vibe = Dekalb Market
It has not been a great year for buildings, but that does not mean this has been a bad year for architecture. In years past, the soaring condos and office towers of the building boom have dominated this list. Most of those are done, finally done, or never will be done. We still find room for two, but the vast majority are civic buildings and public spaces, perhaps what New York needs now more than ever as the city continues to fill up with more New Yorkers. It has been a good year to find room to breath, to see, to walk, to live.
DeKalb Market
Proving that it does not take much to constitute architecture, Dekalb Market transformed a vacant lot in Downtown Brooklyn into an open-air mall and gathering point, and all it took was some savvy shopkeepers, artisans and chefs and a few shipping containers and a blow torch.The brainchild of developer Young Woo and British designers Urban Space, this is a holdover until a real mall, City Point, can be built, which, no matter how nice the design, will probably never be as dynamic a place to visit as the Dekalb Market.
http://www.observer.com/2011/12/the-designer-dozen-the-best-new-york-architecture-of-2011/#slide10
