Just because its winter does not mean there are no flea markets open for your shopping pleasure.

At Industry City enjoy the Winter Flea and Smorgasburg, open every weekend. The market moves indoors all winter in a 50,000 square-foot space in Industry City at 241 37th Street in Williamsburg. You will find over 100 sellers with furniture, housewares, vintage clothing, antiques, jewelry, art, and crafts. Forty vendors have their yummies cooked and packaged foods on sale. Open from 10am to 6pm Saturdays and Sundays.

In Crown Heights head on over to Berg’n at 899 Bergen Street. This is not quite a flea market, but more of a beer and food hall. You will become acquainted with over a dozen taps, 50+bottles and cans, plus food from such beloved vendors as Ed & Bev’s, Lumpia Shack, Mighty Quinn’s BBQ and Samesa. Enjoy Happy Hour Tuesdays through Fridays from 4pm to 7pm. You can even get a private dining room for that special event.

What, you have something to contribute to this great selling adventure. Beginning in April 2016 the ninth season of Brooklyn Flea commences, and you can be part of it. There is an emphasis this year on finding great designers and makers of fashion/clothing, housewares/interiors, functional pieces, and much more. Want to get involved? Go to Brooklyn Flea or contact info@brooklynflea.com.

Blue Apron delivers fresh ingredients, pre-measured, right to your door.

This is one of the best ideas I’ve heard of in a long time: purchasing exactly what you need, no more and no less, for a particular meal that you want to make at home. A new online company, which is based right here in New York, called Blue Apron, delivers fresh ingredients right to your door.

For a very reasonable $10 per person per meal, Blue Apron plans your menu, shops for your ingredients, measures out the quantities that you need, and then delivers it all. Then all you do is cook, relax, and enjoy your meal.

Patrons learn new, delectable recipes, and get to eat fresh and healthy meals made exactly the way you like. Each meal takes about 35 minutes to prepare, contain about 500-700 calories per serving, and come with easy to follow, easy to look at, recipe cards.

Customers sign-up online for a weekly subscription which can make as little as three meals per week for then number of people you specify. Meals are recommended each week based on what you like to eat, and no matter which plan chosen, there is no commitment. It is possible to skip any week as long as Blue Apron knows by the weekly deadline for the coming week.

Although based in New York, they are ready to deliver to customers in many places all over the country. Check out their web site: Blue Apron.

Who can visit New York and not want to explore some of the best shopping found anywhere in the world? And where is the “best of the best?” The famous names come easily, such as Fifth Avenue, the Lower East Side’s garment district, the Upper West Side for antiques. But what do you know about one of the “World’s Top Ten Shopping Streets” according to National Geographic? That is, of course, the Flea Market in Hell’s Kitchen.

Every Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 5pm, all year long, excited shoppers converge on one of New York’s most fun places to go, the HKFM. The West 25th Street Market is an amazing place to find great bargains; the best antiques anywhere in town will be for sale in The Garage; and for furniture, there is nowhere else that can match the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market.

Come and see for yourself. 112 Wst 25th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. For more information contact 800.780.7330