A sampling of New York's ever-better holiday craft markets, where local vendors peddle their handcrafted wares
Bio: Jenna Sauers is a journalist and an editor at Jezebel.com. Originally from New Zealand, she lives in New York and writes about fashion and culture for publications including Bookforum, The New York Observer, The Village Voice, and Jalouse.
With all the budget-balancing and recipient-matching the yearly gift-hunt demands, you could do worse than to check out one of the plethora of holiday fairs that currently dot Manhattan and Brooklyn—prices are good, selection is vast, and perhaps most importantly these markets are trading in stuff with the marks of authenticity, hand-craftedness, and keeping-it-local built in. Aside from the anxiety-inducing megamarkets in Union Square, Grand Central Terminal, and Columbus Circle (most of whose vendors are pretty light on actual craft and heavy on tchotchke-ism), there are several less frenzied, more humane, and way more charming seasonal shopping fairs. More
Posted on December 17th, 2011 3:20pm
