Spring Update: Street Fair Season Again!

Gowanus Lounge doesn't know how we made it through the season without a Mozzarepa, grilled corn on the cob, a Lucy's Sausage sandwich or some artery clogging deep fried Zeppole (especially the Zeppole), but street fair season is open. GL spent part of yesterday at the Court Street Summerfest fair. Court Street's (sponsored by the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corp.) is one of the fairs that manages to retain a bit more local flavor with booths set up by local merchants. Whereas the vast majority of street fairs around the city are so generic in nature that they could be taking place in any neighborhood in the city. Reason: most of the major fairs are managed the same company, Mardi Gras Productions, with some minor players in the game as well. A couple of years ago, WNYC's Brian Lehrer provoked some discussion of the generic nature of street fairs in a NY Times op-ed in which he called the fairs "another cog in the economy, posing as part of the neighborhood."