There was a flea market that assembled itself outside the gates of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn some Sundays. The trouble was, it only convened on “some Sundays,” it was unreliable. It didn’t matter much anyways, I and my art student friends were usually broke; and the stuff they offered wasn’t worth much. It was all new stuff, and to me that really was worthless. I figured flea markets should only sell old stuff.
This flea had come a long way from the early days a century before when upholstered furniture for sale had to (by law) be brought outside the city limits of Paris, to stop the infestation and spread of fleas. The only thing I remember buying at the Pratt Gate was a red pillow with little pineapples all over it. My girlfriend Isabelle bought a matching one.