Free Weekend Events - Sunday now added.

Sunday Added: I wanted to make sure this was happening on Sunday. The usual clean-uppers are meeting on Sunday at 9:30 AM in front of the Rec Center. It will be one of the last of the year, so if you need to work on your Karma or if you've just missed the last few, go this week. Sunday looks to be lovely.

Saturday the 24th of October is a busy one despite the forecast of rain.

For the kids: From Noon to 4 PM the annual HealthPlus sponsored Hallowe'en celebration will be going on at the Rec Center (7th Avenue and 41st). This year, there will be a Toddler Pumpkin Patch just for children ages 2-5. It's free, crowded, cute, and fun.

For the Freegans and their supporters:

The Very, Very Free Market that has been around the flagpole area several times now is moving indoors this time around. It will be held at 379 47th Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues) from 2 PM to 6 PM. See below for more details, but here's the gist: You can bring items you no longer want/need, you can take items you really do want/need. You can bring literature about your community group as well. Everything is FREE; no money is exchanged. Any items left over at the end are brought to the Salvation Army over on 9th Avenue (I think, someone correct me in comments if that's wrong.).

from the email:

SUNSET PARK VERY MERRIE FREE MARKET

SATURDAY 10-24 FROM 2 PM TO 6 PM

in the SOCIAL HALL of FOURTH AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH

Enter at 379 47^TH St (between 3^rd & 4^th Avenues)

Make new friends! Meet community members, activists, and group leaders!! Bring along literature about your pet cause.

EXPLANATION: This is a space for community activists, groups and members to draw strength from one another's skills, and surplus or rescued resources. Neighbors meet neighbors; strangers make friends; friends share ideas, connections and conventions; and skilled practitioners of arts, crafts, trades, and professions can share critical skills and know-how, impart training, and offer free services that empower or save money.

EVERYTHING everyone brings, or takes, is FREE, and that may include electronics, clothes, toys, furniture, food, grain, condiments, spices, (YOU fill in the blanks!)

Sorry, no drop-offs or pick-ups. We'd rather see you than your stuff :-) Intended primarily to serve the local community, but open to all. Newly unemployed or chronically homeless? A Special Welcome 2 u!
If you need to take stuff home, come prepared with sturdy bags.

Contact: VVFMarket@gmail.com

Best access: R train to 45 St; walk up 2 blocks on 4^th Ave; right on 47^th St.

(If you missed this one, join us again 3^rd Saturdays 11-21 & 12-19, same time, same place)