Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

- Maybe twice a year, Carmine Street, which is half a block from my studio, hosts a small street fair which works its way off onto Bleecker Street, another block away. Yesterday, was one of those days.

Throughout the summer, these street fairs are the norm and they move all over the city from weekend to weekend. In this local one, the merchants on both streets also join the cavalcade of professional street fair folk who travel from fair to fair.

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1. From my studio, this is the view you get looking down Carmine Street toward Bleecker and 6th Avenue.
2. What would a street fair be without a T-Shirt vendor. Just bring your photo.

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3. As you move down the center of the street, you get to see the wares a little better.
4. A local restaurant has a selection of bottled herbs for sale.

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The fair always offers interesting ethnic food. This little tent offers Thai food.

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6.Here a local vendor offers a wide variety of sunglasses. The sidewalk restaurants have their outdoor tables in full use.
7. Around the corner onto Bleecker Street more of the generic vendors take charge selling their gyros, fries and other foods (all tasty but none good for you.)

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This vendor has probably the best spot right on the corner of Carmine & Bleecker.
This very stand seems to be the anchor for every street fair you can get to over
the entire summer. And that includes the San Gennaro & St. Anthony feasts.

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11. Even art (of a sort) is for sale.
12. Even better is fresh fruit packaged artfully.

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At the entrance (or exit depending on which way you’ve come)
there’s a sign closing off traffic.

At exactly 5PM a thunderous storm hit the Village. Rain came down very hard and ran in buckets. Within 20 minutes, however, it was gone, and the sun was back out. The vendors at the Lil’ Fair must’ve known this, because they quickly covered their merchandise with blue plastic baggies, and waited out the short storm. By 5:30, they were open for business again albeit a little bit wet.

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