Skillman Ave. street fair tomorrow
The Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a street fair on Skillman Avenue tomorrow, Saturday, September 1, from 11 am to 6 pm. The street festival will go along Skillman Ave. from 43rd to 48th Street.
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Skillman fair > Greenpoint Fair
South side of QB > north side
i hope it isn’t like the one in the spring time it was horrible
Thanks for the pre-event post!
Many police vans, tow trucks, and police spent hours this morning towing cars to make room for the vendors. The amount of man hours and salary spent on this is ridiculous. Taxpayers are paying for these costs, not the Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce or the vendors. Total waste of money.
There is never any report of how much money was raised and how it is divided between the for-profit company that organizes these fairs and the Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce. How about a report and some transparency?
Does anyone remember the original Skillman Avenue Fairs? They were so much better. There were only a few vendors from outside of the neighborhood. People displayed their artwork, community residents rented tables, without a mobile vendor permit, and sold their unwanted items. There was a greater sense of community. When you strolled down the few blocks, you met your neighbors, old friends and really felt like it was old-home week.
I don’t get the bounce houses that parents don’t want to spend money on, nor do I understand why Clearview Productions gets to profit from using our streets to set-up repetitive retail vendors and over-priced food vendors. They run “EVERY” street fair in NYC. I have seen the same vendors with the exact same items, over and over again. Boring!
When the festival was not organized by Clearview, many of the Skillman restaurants would set up a table, it was a chance to meet your local business owners.
The Chamber of Commerce would be wise to return to the original version of the fair, perhaps with only one bounce house!
Agree with Sunnyside_Native, I took a stroll down the fair and 10 min later I walked right out. Over priced food! I mean cmon it’s Sunnyside I just turn the corner and I can get wayyyy better food for the same price. The biggest thing I agree with is the Vendor situation. Its pure CRAP. Cell phone covers and hats and shirts. I want the possibility of buying someones old crap trinket he found in the basement that would ignite a curse and release redneck zombies. I want that !
And finally those bouncy houses are a damn shame. Rather than just charge a few bucks for one bouncy house they wanted 10 bucks for all 3 houses. Even my kid was like,,pshhhh, its too hot for that lets go.
I agree with Ruben and Sunnyside Native. The fair yesterday was like one giant 99-cent store.
It is sad that the Chamber of Commerce can’t think of something more creative than 4 vendors selling cell phone accessories and a whole lot of junk.
The Sunnyside Gardens Park has much better fairs than this one.
I agree with the above comments. A particularly sad sight was the young lady from the Petunia children’s clothing store, the only Skillman Ave. shop participating in the fair, having to tolerate the grease fumes from a sausage stand and blasting latin music from a guy selling CDs while talking with strollers. On the 43rd Street end of Skillman Ave., several NYC tow trucks were idling most of the day, EMS and police vans with staff sitting and doing nothing but eating, were the only sights. Please Chamber of Commerce, let’s end this farce.
Yes, let’s end it. Who would even want to eat the awful food they sell?