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New Punk Flea Market is Booming in Shipping Container Alley in Bushwick

Along Broadway, between Belvedere and Locust Streets, at the end of an alley lined with old books, pins, crash cymbals ($15), used bikes, and religious paraphernalia, lies Primitive Languages

New Punk Flea Market is Booming in Shipping Container Alley in Bushwick
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New Punk Flea Market is Booming in Shipping Container Alley in Bushwick

Along Broadway, between Belvedere and Locust Streets, at the end of an alley lined with old books, pins, crash cymbals ($15), used bikes, and religious paraphernalia, lies Primitive Languages

New Punk Flea Market is Booming in Shipping Container Alley in Bushwick
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With the , container practice spaces at , galleries and on Myrtle Ave in Bushwick and , the reclaiming industrial space for underground art and commerce is seeing a global resurgence in areas more densely populated than the abandoned factory raves of yore.If living in a shipping container seems uncomfortable (“space heater in the winter, fans in the summer,” another shopkeeper told me), living off of one would appear impossible but that doesn’t dissuade the Klein and Alvariño from their digitized vision. Keeping their day jobs, Alvariño seems optimistic about the project regardless of its success, “worst case scenario, we have a bunch of records we really like.

Along Broadway, between Belvedere and Locust Streets, at the end of an alley lined with old books, pins, crash cymbals ($15), used bikes, and religious paraphernalia, lies Primitive Languages . Founded…

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