Union Square Holiday Crap Fair
As if Union Square doesn’t get clogged enough by straggling NYU/Parson’s/New School kids eating their lunch + miscellaneous protesters + homeless people + moms & strollers + people & their dogs, the better part of a third of it is now occupied by the annual Holiday Crap Fair.
Since I have a few presents left to buy for my peeps, I decided to wander over on my lunch hour today to check things out. Hopefully I wandered through the aisles and aisles of little red & white booths, searching for the perfect present that heretofore I had no idea existed. Though I was heartened by the quality of some of the jewelry places, and enjoyed perusing the few booths dedicated to children’s puppets and toys, mostly I found the typical array of generic middle eastern hippie clothes/incense vendors, shitty silver jewelry kiosks and stinky do-it-yourself soap merchants.
Honestly, I might as well just go shop the street vendors around Times Square. Ick. So, dear readers, if you’re considering taking a peek at this, or the two other Crap Fair locations in the city (Bryant & Central Parks, I believe) in the hopes that you might find the Greatest Christmas/Hanukah/Kwanzaa Present Ever, don’t bother.
i used to live on a dorm on union square and was heartily disappointed when i realized that the holiday market did not offer hot beverages or treats. WTF?
Crap jewelry yes. But I must defend one particular stall: The Unemployed Philosopher’s Guild. It is a great source of weird ass useless crap to give my dad every year. And he loves it. Apparently stupidity is genetic.
“As if Union Square doesn’t get clogged enough..”
God forbid those pesky people use a public square!
very good job i like this blog
Yeah so what if it’s the same crap every year. It’s still festive looking.
why are you all so miserable?
hey guys, I was at the union square fair the week before christmas 2005, there was a guy in a trenchcoat selling colorful japanese geisha girls in black frames (about 8×14). He had a ton of them. Does anyone know who he was and how I can find his stuff again.
Or if anyone knows how to find out the list of vendors that were at the fair I would appreciate the info.
ianzell1975@yahoo.com
-Ian-