Holiday Market Picks: Give Handmade Gifts!

For Elephant Lovers, necklace handmade by UrbanRose in the Bryant Park Holiday Market

Look. It’s December. The weather is going to suck. So why not make the most of it by hanging out in the festive holiday markets?

This weekend, you can choose among 32 – thirty-two! – markets, mostly indoors, throughout the city! I’ve been gathering gifts for my nieces, and now I want to keep everything because every one of them is the coolest thing on earth. That’s what happens when you shop from New York City’s amazing makers and designers. (I’ll give the girls their gifts, except for the unicorn stuff that I’ll be spiriting away into my own stocking.)

WEEKEND HOLIDAY MARKETS

1. December 16– 18.  Pop Up Flea Holiday Marketplace, 69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Ave and 25th Street, Manhattan

2. December 17.  Fourth U Holiday Craft Market, 160 Central Park West, Manhattan

3. December 17.  Om Grown Holiday Market, at Bread and Yoga, 5000 Broadway at 212th Street, Manhattan

4. December 17.  Ridgewood Market’s Winter Holiday Bazaar. Gottscheer Hall, 657 Fairview Avenue, Queens

5. December 17.  Holiday Marketplace, Space Ninety 8, 98 North 6th Street, Brooklyn

6. December 17.  Vegan Holiday Shop Up, Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan Street, Brooklyn

7. December 17 – 18. Awesometown Holiday Drink Shop Relax, The Well, 272 Meserole Street, Brooklyn

8. December 17 – 18.  Brooklyn Makers Market: Holiday Edition, Williamsburgh Savins Bank, 175 Broadway, Brooklyn

9. December 17 – 18.  f.a.d. Holiday Makers Market, Basement of St.Paul’s Church, 190 Court Street, Brooklyn

10. December 17 – 18.  Give Back Holiday Market, Textile Arts Center, 26 West 8th Street, Manhattan

11. December 17 – 18.  Mama’s Bazaar Holiday Market, House of Yes, 2 Wyckoff Avenue, Brooklyn

12. December 17 – 18.  Spiked Mug Festival, by LIC Flea & Food, The Factory, 30-30 47th Avenue, LIC, Queens

13. December 17 – 18.  Renegade Holiday Pop Ups, Industry City, 233 37th Street, Brooklyn

14. December 17 – 18.  Unique Goodness Holiday Boutique, Holiday Inn Hotel Mid-Town, 440 West 57th Street, Manhattan

15. December 18.  Astoria Holiday Market at Bohemian Hall, 29-19 24th Avenue, Astoria, Queens

16. December 18.  Bushwick Vendors Holiday Market, 603 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn

17. December 18.  Grand Holiday Bazaar, 100 West 77th Street, Manhattan  ♥

18. December 18.  Shoestring Holiday Bizarre, 640 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn

19. December 18.  Stuyvesant Indi Bazaar, 376 Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn

20. December 18.  Warming Up Winter Holiday Market, Queens Night Market & Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens.

21. December 19.  Holiday Vegan Shop Up, Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan Street, Brooklyn

Season & Week-Long Holiday Markets

1. November 21 – December 4, 2016.  Tuck Shop Holiday Pop Up, Artists & Fleas, 88 10th Avenue, Manhattan

2. December 2 – 31.  Christmas in Little Italy, 109 Mulberry Street, Manhattan

3. November 25 – December 24.  Hester Street Fair in the South Street Seaport, 117 Beekman Street, Manhattan

4. December 1 –  31.  REAL NYC Designer Holiday Pop Up, Open all week, 149 Mulberry Street, Manhattan

5. December 8 – 24.  Young & Able 3rd Annual Holiday Pop Up, 2 Rivington Street, Manhattan

6. December 13 – 18.  Jingle A Holiday Pop-Up Store at Chelsea Market, Open all week, 75 9th Avenue, Manhattan

7. December 19 –26.   ID Pop Shop Holiday, Chelsea Market, 75 9th Avenue, Manhattan (Closed December 25th)

Grand Holiday Markets

1. Bryant Park Winter Village, Open daily through January 3, 2016

2. Columbus Circle Holiday Market,  Open daily December 1st – December 24th, 7 days a week

3. Grand Central Holiday Fair: Open daily November 16th – December 24th

4. Union Square Holiday Market, Open daily November 19th – December 24th

~Karen Seiger, Markets of New York City

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