Westbeth Flea Market

The Westbeth Beautification Committee, a subcommittee of the Westbeth Artists Residents Council, has been a Westbeth tenant volunteer organization for the past four decades.

Since 1984, the Committee has held two semi-annual Westbeth Flea Markets dedicated to fundraising for projects that benefit Westbeth cultural events and gardens , the neighborhood community, local charities and disaster relief.

We are dedicated to reuse- recycle and renew.

Flea Markets are held twice a year. Check E Blasts and the website Home Page for the exact dates and times.

Winter Flea Market . Always held on Election Day, followed by a weekend to include Veteran’s Day, . Dates are dependent on the Election Day calendar for each year.

Spring Flea Market. Dates usually in May on Mother’s Day weekend.

$10 Bag sale is usually the Saturday following the that last day of the Nov and May sales.

SALE AND DONATIONS INFO:
We welcome clean, usable donations from everyone. . We do not accept large TVs, upholstered furniture, pillows and anything that is torn, stained, broken, or not in working order. Leave your donations in the closet in Westbeth basement recylce area.
For Info: westbethfleamarket@gmail.com. We cannot pick up donations.

Donations of affordable art, contact Parviz Mohassel at bravoparviz@yahoo.com

A TRADITION OF GIVING

Funds rtaised by the Flea Market are used to enhance the public areas of Westbeth, design and maintain gardens, and provide low-cost or free classes and workshops.

We have formed relationships with neighborhood charitable organizations such as the Migrant Families Project at PS 3, Project Renewal an organization that takes care of homeless men and women, Holy Apostles Church, Dress for Success, disaster relief organizations and others to provide sukpport for the larger community.

After every sale, books are given awayprisons and neighborhood community centers organizations, etc. All remaining items are donated to the Salvation Army and homeless shelters.

HISTORY

The first Flea Market raised money to build cedar planters to protect the trees along Bethune St. Since then, the annual Flea Market has funded Westbeth’s public gardens, restoration projects, low cost Feldenkrais classes, and most recently a PEN Women’s Literary Workshop.

RECENT PROJECTS

BARGAINS GALORE

Westbeth is a home to artists – painters, dancers, actors, writers, sculptors, musicians and more. What they donate to the Westbeth Flea Market reflects not only what they have collected paassionately for themselves, but also what they have created out of passion.

Affordable Art, Books, Furniture, Jewelry, Housewares, Clothing, Shoes, Kids Toys, Notions, Albums and CDs, Makeup, Musical Instruments, Linens and Fine Fabrics.

COLLECT LIKE AN ARTIST!

ORIGINAL ARTWORK
Regularly, families of deceased artists donate original artwork to the Flea Market where they find new appreciative owners, thus maintaining a legacy of the artist’s work, and their time at Westbeth.

The Flea Market has sold works by Lucienne Weinberger, Jane Bolmeieir, David Seccombe, Robert Beauchamp, and more. Watercolors, oil and acrylic paintings, fine art prints, sculpture, at prices affordable for all art collectors.

HAPPY BUYERS

Customers from the neighborhood, across the city, and from around the world return again and again. Many have remarked on feeling a sense of community when they walk through the doors. The Flea Market has also acted as an introduction to the cultural events at Westbeth – art exhibits, performances, music and dance festivals.

We have been featured in Time Out, the NY Times, DNA Info, and the Villagerr, and Neighborhood Slice. More recently the Flea Market was featured on Channel One, WPIX, and Fox,

SELECTED PROJECTS FUNDED BY FLEA MARKET

CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to donate clean, usable goods to the Flea Market, or if you would to be on the email list for future sales and events, contact

westbethfleamarket@gmail.com

all photos Christina Maile