5th Avenue Fair on Sunday

mtzmtz

The Fabulous Fifth Avenue Street Fair Sunday May 20 11 am - 6 pm Sterling Place to 12th St.

Arts and Crafts section from Berkeley to Carroll St

Antique Auto Show 1st st- Garfield Pl

Puppetry Arts- for the kids- make puppets and portrait tiles (to be used in the Brooklyn Hospital Mural) 5th ave and 2nd st.

Live Music all over

Great food from your favorite 5th Ave. Eateries

Kids rides by JJ Byrne Pk.

Check out the events at The Old Stone House Antiques, Gifts, Jewelry, clothing and so much more

slopehead

Oh great, more roasted corn and tube socks. I hope this year most of the vendors will be locals and not a bunch of trinket hucksters from out of state.

parrothead

Hilarious, Slopehead!

Don't forget the sausage and peppers!

bkdonna

Just hope the rain don't fall, cause my B/f business is going to be out there vending

karl the druid

i'll operating the dragon finger booth again

"dragon fingahs! dragon fingahs! yo lady, you wan dat sweet r hot?"

pitu

The itinerant mozzarepa vendors are already setting up, but this particular street fair tends to have a very high proportion of local participation compared to the street-clogging tube sock spectaculars in Manhattan.

Blue Ribbon Sushi had deeelicious soft shell crab maki last year.

Karl, will you be hovering above the crowd?

karl the druid

sadly no, i have no powers of levitation

i'm a druid, not a magic user

laura

Now there's silly string all over the street. What happens to that stuff? It doesn't look very biodegradable ...

livetotravel

Here's my wrap-up:
More garbage than I ever remember
Less tube socks
More public displays of drunkenness than I ever remember
Less local businesses than I expected
More of the same boring street fair sameness than I expected
Less reasons to want to go back next year

daniel

Seems like there were fewer places selling quality beer this year. I had to walk several extra blocks to find a decent wheat beer! Horrors!

quig

Some Notes:
Bierkraft had Brooklyn Blast, one of the best IPAs I've ever had.
At buscuit they had six point sweet something or other - Really good
'Tween the wife and I we shared four rolls from Blue Ribbon.
After that we shared a Kobe hot dog from Stone House- yummy.
Turned around at our friends bar Excelsior.
Had an Apollo, then a Kelso nut brown back at Bierkraft.

All in all a great day.

nychas

The Six Point Brownstoner (Brown Ale) was fresh and top notch! The higher (numbered) streets seemed to be more euro-centric in beer selection but we hit the good stuff (american craft ales) down in the named streets.

pitu

Anybody adopt that beautiful akita or the big schmooy pit mix at the pet adoption tent by Commerce? Maaaaaaaaannnnnnnnn, what a handsome beast.

quig, that's Six Point Sweet Action. Their Brownstoner and Bengali Tiger are also faaaaaabulous. Bummer that the Brooklyn Blast double IPA wasn't available in Growlers yesterday.

We had rolls from Blue Ribbon Sushi, and split a couple ribs with habanero sauce from regular Blue Ribbon. Yum.

There were less local vendors than last year, but at least the local food places were doing much better biz than the crappy sausage and pepper stands...
Overall, I liked it better last year, and I like the north end much better, starting after the park with the kiddie/pony rides.