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Short Stack Editions (Vol. 1 - 3) by Nick Fauchald
Short Stack is a small-format publication about inspiring ingredients and recipes, created by the food world's brightest talents.
- 78% funded
- $39,306 pledged
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We're big fans of doing things right and innovatively, and these kids fit the bill. High hopes for this series!
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Save the Coney Island Mermaid from Extinction! by Coney Island USA
The nation's largest art parade may have been flooded, but it's not washed away!
- 84% funded
- $84,141 pledged
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We're longtime hardcore Mermaid fans. Do what you can to save this institution of insanity from sleeping with the fishes.
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NYC Teens to Launch Summer Traveling Film Festival by Reel Works Teen Filmmaking
This Summer, we plan to take teen filmmakers from Brooklyn on tour to share their stories and empower youth to inspire positive action.
Successful!- 110% funded
- $11,061 pledged
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May 22, 2013
Love this teen filmmaking organization, who tell stories like you've never seen. Help 'em share Brooklyn with the world.
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ONE Spark, ONE Light, ONE Candle: A New Collection by Wick+Wax
A candle collection inspired by the American democracy. Created to stir action, thought and debate, and still stimulate the senses.
Successful!- 102% funded
- $1,531 pledged
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Sep 23, 2012
Vote-ive candles anyone? This gal's got a sharp eye and a cool take on crafts.
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Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center by Northside Town Hall
Two Brooklyn neighborhoods are working to convert a shuttered firehouse into a one-of-a-kind center for art and community service.
Successful!- 100% funded
- $20,053 pledged
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Sep 13, 2012
We support this grassroots project because it unites all facets of the North Brooklyn community, and also repurposes a neighborhood asset (a closed firehouse). Very much in the spirit of the Williamsburg/Greenpoint we've known and loved for decades.
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The Newtown Creek Armada by The Newtown Creek Armada
The Newtown Creek Armada is a public art installation, creating a boat pond on one of the USA's most polluted bodies of water.
Successful!- 131% funded
- $3,955 pledged
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Funded
Aug 22, 2012
We've been proponents of transforming Newtown Creek from an eyesore to an asset for Brooklyn (and Queens) for years now. This is a cool creative step in the right direction.
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A Photography Book About Vinyl Collectors - Dust & Grooves. by Eilon
Dust & Grooves is a photo and interview project documenting vinyl collectors in their most intimate environment: their record room.
Successful!- 153% funded
- $41,375 pledged
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Aug 10, 2012
What would the Flea be without vinyl? For us personally: not as awesome. Anything that loves up the LP gets our support, especially when they're Brooklyn folks.
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FREEFORM OR DEATH, a documentary about WFMU by Tim K Smith
Help us share the story of New Jersey’s WFMU, the world’s longest-running freeform radio station, in its fight to stay alive.
Successful!- 163% funded
- $81,639 pledged
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Jul 11, 2012
Our longtime favorite freeform radio station WFMU is only listener-supported and only awesome musically. We support our roots!
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Electric Signs by Alice Arnold
ELECTRIC SIGNS is a poetic and timely documentary about signs, screens and the urban environment. The film examines our public spaces,
Successful!- 104% funded
- $6,241 pledged
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Jun 14, 2012
Alice is a longtime Flea friend who's one of the most innovative photographers in the sociopolitical realm of how art and public space interact. She's a New Yorker with a global perspective. This is a cool one!
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Howler: A Magazine About Soccer by George Quraishi
A big, glossy publication with distinctive, original writing and art about soccer that will come out four times per year.
Successful!- 138% funded
- $69,001 pledged
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Funded
Jun 29, 2012
Serious folks working on a real live print magazine and having fun do it. Plus, football! Love it.
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Greetings from Coney Island (a story told via your mailbox!) by Gyda Arber
A series of handwritten postcards and letters from the past arrive in your mailbox, addressed to YOU!
Successful!- 182% funded
- $6,396 pledged
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Funded
Jun 10, 2012
A super-cute project that rejuvenates one of the most iconic slices of Brooklyn nostalgia. Nice one!
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Roger That, Garden Project by Emily Bell Dinan
Turning an empty lot into a botanic refuge. Help us buy plants, lumber, and tools to grow food and flowers.
Successful!- 155% funded
- $3,115 pledged
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Funded
May 18, 2012
We love how many innovative urban-garden projects are happening all over the borough. They all deserve our support.
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Forage Kitchen by Iso Rabins
Forage Kitchen is the first Co-working space for food. A hub for the Bay Area food community, and a home for artisan food makers.
Successful!- 104% funded
- $156,502 pledged
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Funded
Jun 29, 2012
Kindred souls on the left coast helping local food businesses graduate to the next level in their evolution. We're all for that!
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PHOTOVILLE - coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park - June 22/July 1 by United Photo Industries
Photoville is a unique photo village built from shipping containers in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park. Help us make it a FREE event!
Successful!- 103% funded
- $31,090 pledged
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Jun 10, 2012
This is a cool one, and right in our backyard here at Flea HQ in Dumbo. Help make the world's greatest park even better.
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Bring Fat Kids, Imposters, and Skaters to Rooftop by Rooftop Films
Support Rooftop Films and sign up for a membership and get in free to all 45 Summer Series screenings!
Successful!- 112% funded
- $11,254 pledged
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Funded
May 09, 2012
We're longtime fans of this perfect NYC pasttime. Action!
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Brooklyn Grange Apiary Project by Brooklyn Grange
New York City's largest apiary, which will have over 25 bee hives and produce more than 1,000lbs of honey each year.
Successful!- 111% funded
- $22,308 pledged
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Apr 19, 2012
The Grange folks are Smorgasburg vendors and world-class urban rooftop farmers. If anyone is sweet enough to make perfect Brooklyn honey, it's Farmer Ben and his ragtag crew. Every drop counts!
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InDigest: Poetry, Stories, Podcasts, Broadsides, and more by Dustin Luke Nelson
InDigest, an online lit mag, offers podcasts, blogs, digital broadsides, and more. It's outgrown its home, and needs a new one.
Successful!- 127% funded
- $2,543 pledged
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Funded
Apr 30, 2012
We like this local literary mag, which you can find in print form at the excellent Berl's Poetry Shop Flea booth most weekends. Go team!
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DETROPIA - We're Releasing our Doc Independently by Loki Films
DETROPIA features Detroiters who refuse to leave the building, even as the flames rise. An engrossing and essential cinematic tapestry.
Successful!- 118% funded
- $71,262 pledged
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Funded
Jun 28, 2012
We just got back from The D and were inspired by the community organizing, urban agriculture, and entrepreneurial spirit. Like Brooklyn but different! This is an interesting slice of this once and future great city.
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The Garbage-Men Head to NYC to Play in Times Square by Anne Derwent
The Garbage-Men have been invited to play in Times Square and are working to raise the funding for airfare from Sarasota, FL.
Successful!- 102% funded
- $2,045 pledged
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Jun 17, 2012
This project is just so cute we had to include it! Who knows, maybe they'll end up playing at the Flea.


















