Hipster Food Haven Smorgasburg Comes To Coney Island This Summer

The four-year-old food-focused spinoff of Brooklyn Flea, Smorgasburg, is coming to Coney Island this summer.

Commercial Observer reports that Thor Equities is bringing the weekend festival of food carts to the lot near 1320 Bowery Street, which itself will be home to a new street art installation called Coney Art Walls, curated by Jeffrey Deitch.

For those who haven’t been, Smorgasburg, which currently has locations in Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridge Park, is a playground of food vendors hawking new and interesting eats. At the Coney Island location, the vendors will be selling out of shipping containers provided by SG Blocks, which designs retail and commercial structures based on the containers.

There will only be about 12 vendors in the first year of the Coney Island location, compared to the 100 or so at the original Williamsburg location. It’s not clear if the event will be both Saturday and Sunday every weekend, as it is in Williamsburg, just Saturdays as it is in Brooklyn Bridge Park, or follow an entirely different schedule.

From a followup in the New York Observer, it sounds like there will also be music, bringing it all together in what Thor developer Joe Sitt is describing as a “pop-up summer village.”