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Fort Greene Hotspot Makes List of 38 Must-Shop NYC Locations

Brooklyn Flea cited for its mix of international style and local quirk.

It looks like the secret might be out about Fort Greene's fabulous—but sometimes overlooked—retail scene. 

The shopping and style website Racked called out a neighborhood hotspot today on their shortlist of 38 retailers that best exemplified the city's diverse mix of international style and local flavor: .

The Flea joins just three other locations in Brooklyn on Racked's list, which cited the increasingly-popular weekly shopping event as "the mother of all hipster flea markets." 

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Though it's good to see the neighborhood getting some love from the normally Manhattan-centric shopping world, we think there are more than a couple Fort Greene-Clinton Hill retailers that also fit in the category of "crazily high standards and crazily low prices, of fashion-world excess and bare-bones access."

What do you think? What local retailers would make it on your Must-Shop shortlist?

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