Saturday in Williamsburg brings year-round artists and fleas who set up ad hoc on Bedford Avenue (completely closed to car traffic for the day). Tables and chairs spill out of restaurants onto the sidewalks and street, and tourists and locals queue for bahn mi, chicken tacos, eggs and grits, and the best pizza pie in the hood.
This Saturday also brought the Renegade Craft Fair to McCarren Park, just down the way. Renegade is the biggest DIY fair in the country with over a hundred vendors selling guitar straps made from seat belts, clocks made from bike gears, and a surprisingly disproportionate number of silk screened American Apparel shirts. We valiantly visited most of the booths, but felt too dizzy with opportunity to actually buy anything.
Instead, we hoofed a half a block to the tiny, but popular Williamsburg Farmer's Market, where we made friends with the woman who owns Ronnybrook Dairy. She was selling milk and yogurt drinks out of metal coolers and, in true New York style, texting madly on her iPhone.
The day shaped up to be a hot one, so we took a long lunch at Wild Ginger, a vegan noodle house on Williamsburg's main drag. It was no accident, I believe, that we saw Adron (the singer whose concert we went to see on our first night here) popping into WG for a bathroom break. Clearly, we have similar tastes in restaurant bathrooms and would become close friends were I to move to Brooklyn. My status as a burdgeoning hipster is cemented in my mind.
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