Sure, flea market is not the correct term used for events like this. But calling it LIC Open Market for Expensive Food and Tinkeries doesn’t ring the same bell. It’s quite long and cumbersome to roll off the tongue.
From stall to stall, I enjoyed viewing different food, reading ingredients, looking at the colors, the richness and the beauty of all the food out for display. It takes you out of the city mode for a few bit of seconds before you have those annoying rushing-off-off-somewhere-New-Yorker pushing their way to get to something. I mean, what exactly are you rushing off to in Long Island City? It’s literally a ghost town.
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