If you’ve ever tried to plan a Saturday around NYC’s weekend market scene, you’ve encountered the problem: every market runs its own website, with its own calendar, in its own format. Smorgasburg here. Brooklyn Flea there. Hester Street’s lineup posted three days before each Saturday. Bushwick Open Studios on a separate Squarespace from Gowanus Open Studios from DUMBO Open Studios. The result is a half-dozen browser tabs and a vague sense of what’s actually happening this weekend.

This week, NYC-based publication Made in NYC (madeinnyc.digital) launched a tool to consolidate it: a cross-borough weekend markets calendar tracking 104 events across the next 12 weeks, filterable by borough, category, and price.

What’s on it

The calendar pulls together the recurring weekend giants — Smorgasburg’s Saturday market in Williamsburg and Friday market at the World Trade Center Oculus, Brooklyn Flea’s Williamsburg-on-Saturdays and DUMBO-on-Sundays setup, Hester Street Fair every Saturday on the Lower East Side, Grand Bazaar NYC every Sunday on the Upper West Side — alongside the one-off events that typically pass quietly:

  • Renegade Craft Fair Brooklyn (Greenpoint, June 14–15)
  • Markets For Makers (Industry City, October 17–18)
  • Bushwick Open Studios (September 26–28)
  • Gowanus Open Studios (October 18–19)
  • DUMBO Open Studios (November 7–8)
  • Bryant Park Winter Village (October 31 – January 4)
  • Union Square Holiday Market (November 20 – December 24)
  • Columbus Circle Holiday Market (December 1 – December 24)

For markets that publish their vendor lineups publicly, the calendar surfaces the actual vendor list, grouped by category. 68 vendors from Smorgasburg. 18 from Artists & Fleas Williamsburg. Each with Instagram handles where available, so a Saturday plan can include a glance at three specific stalls instead of a generic “let’s go to Smorgasburg.”

How it works

The page accepts URL filters: ?borough=Brooklyn&category=craft&free=1&days=21 returns Brooklyn-only craft markets that are free in the next 21 days. Each market also has its own dedicated profile page with all upcoming dates, a map link, and a vendor list — for example, madeinnyc.digital/markets/smorgasburg-williamsburg/.

Updates run every Thursday morning automatically. The team behind it says they’re working on three follow-on features — a cross-market vendor search (“show me every NYC ceramicist this month”), a weekly Friday email summary, and a consolidated map for the fall Open Studios cluster.

Submitting a market

Markets that aren’t currently on the calendar can be submitted via a free form on the page. Per the launch announcement, the team is particularly interested in smaller Queens and Bronx markets, which don’t always have strong web presence and tend to get missed.

Full calendar: madeinnyc.digital/nyc-markets/

Disclosure: Made in NYC is a sister publication in NYC Pulse News’ network. Original announcement on the source site.

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