The annual Fifth Avenue Fair in Park Slope took place yesterday and was dampened by rain for the second time in the last three years. The rain started coming down around 1:30 and by the time it let up around 4:30 a lot of the vendors had already packed up. The street was filled before the rain started, but the crowd did thin significantly once it started coming down hard enough to get people, food and merchandise significantly wet.
Slope’s Fifth Avenue Fair Dampened by Rain
May 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: Park Slope · Street Fairs
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1 Deb // May 19, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Ha. That first picture shows the empty space where I had to leave my booth. 🙁 Good thing my new tent, arrived…today!
Classic Miss Wit
2 Bree // May 19, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Well the rain didnt deter alot of folk,myself included.The food was so good. I had a grilled corn and italian sausage with onions and peppers. $3 dollars for the corn and $8 for the sausage. I hadnt been to a fair in years so the prices, although everything has gone up,caught me off guard.But it was all worth it. nothing like an italian sausage at a fair. then i topped it off with a pink lemonade and funnel cake.hmmm…hmmm good.that was my first time and wont be my last. glad i stumbled onto it.actually i was heading to the new smokehouse that opened up in the old bisquit bbq place.
3 Charlie from Maine // May 20, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I was visiting my sister who lives on the 300 block of 5th Avenue, so went down to the Fair around 3:30. I walked the whole thing all the way to one end and back and to the other end and back, took about 2 hours. It was raining pretty hard around 4 o’clock. I had no umbrella, should have worn my rain poncho, had my leather coat on and wide brimmed felt hat, so got mostly just my pants and shoes wet. Sometime after 4 o’clock it was just misty and I actually dried out quite a bit walking around in the mist.
I live in a small city in Maine which has a downtown of about 3 blocks by one block. It does have a museum in a building erected in 1754, so that’s unique, but the rest of the city is ho-hum.
The fair was great! Music! Food! Stuff! And people! From all over the world — lots of something-not-English heard as I walked along and plenty of nicely different looking folk. About as much variety in two hours as you would find in Maine in ten years. I bought some suishi — yum! And yes, suishi is available in Maine, both in Japenese restaurants as well as chinese full menu places and fancy delis.
A nice family event. I love seeing families at events, especially the multi generation groups. I like looking at the kids and wondering how much they will look like their parents at the same age and how much they will look like their grandparents at their age. Some of the kids actually look like minitures of the old folks.
It was really nice to not have cars in the street. How about if all the cars were gone, everybody got around in electric trolly and horse drawn taxis, how would that be? That’s what the neighborhoods were designed for when they were built.