Every Sunday, Grand Bazaar NYC turns a schoolyard and a cafeteria on the Upper West Side into a market of more than 150 vendors selling vintage, antiques, art, fashion and food. This fall, a curated selection of those vendors is heading downtown for a limited series of weekday markets.
“A Taste of Grand Bazaar at Hudson Square” will run on Wednesdays through October 7, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (the first round happened this week). It’s set up on the newly transformed Hudson Square Plaza, the pedestrian plaza between Spring and Dominick Streets. The organizers describe the series as bringing the spirit of their Upper West Side market downtown, with a mix of food, vintage finds, fashion, accessories, art and one-of-a-kind goods. The market is asking visitors to RSVP through Eventbrite.
The market launched around 1979 as GreenFlea Market, started by a group of parents holding what was essentially a yard sale to raise money for their kids’ schools, which the organization says makes it the oldest flea market in the city. It reincorporated in 1985 and took the Grand Bazaar NYC name in 2016 to reflect its broader offerings, according to the market’s website.
That fundraising mission hasn’t changed. Grand Bazaar NYC passes 100 percent of its profits to the parent associations of four public schools, P.S. 87, The Computer School, P.S. 334 Anderson School and M.S. 247 Dual Language Middle School, funding books, supplies, teaching assistants, arts programming and sports and chess programs for more than 2,000 children.
The original market still runs every Sunday, indoors and outdoors, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 100 West 77th Street at Columbus Avenue.
