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You can still find great stuff at the (nearly extinct) Chelsea flea market:

Still-life with panther, remote-controlled F-14 Tomcat, and bass & amp; June 2008.

I've gone to the Chelsea flea market nearly every weekend for the last 10 years. And have watched as it dies a slow and inevitable death, as one crappy "luxury rental" tower after another is built, as lot after lot is converted from flea market to villas for moneyed resident tourists (my term for the myriad of "young professionals" who don't intend to live here permanently, but just want their 3 or 4 years of fun in NYC; the only folks to whom a $3500/month one-bedroom apartment in an atrociously ugly building seems a fine idea).

I wonder if the youngsters realize that their very presence has destroyed much of why it might be worth that much money to live on Sixth Avenue in the 20s.

An assortment worthy of a surrealist manifesto:

Andy (Warhol, frequent visitor to the Chelsea flea market back in the day) would be horrified. To be fair, though, he would now be able to find plenty of Russell Wright on Ebay.

Another from June 2008:

Even stuffed monkeys are likely available on-line. Maybe change isn't necessarily bad. It is what it is.