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Get a Sneak Peek Inside the Future Brooklyn Flea Site at Open House NY

 A former Studebaker service station converted into office space on Dean Street in Crown Heights is one of dozens of buildings open to the public this weekend as part of Open House New York.
A former Studebaker service station converted into office space on Dean Street in Crown Heights is one of dozens of buildings open to the public this weekend as part of Open House New York.
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CROWN HEIGHTS — You don't have to wait for the Brooklyn Flea to move to 1000 Dean St. later this fall to check out its future home at a cavernous former industrial warehouse that, among other things, served as a Studebaker service station  one of several sites open to the public this weekend as part of Open House New York.

The 1920s-era concrete building will be open for tours every 45 minutes this Saturday led by the owners of the space, who will explain “the process and challenges in converting a 150,000-square-foot garage in 21st century office space,” according to the Open House event listing.

The site also includes a 9,000-square-foot beer hall, Berg’n, which opened in August in a separate building attached to 1000 Dean by a passageway. The complex was renovated by Eric Demby and Jonathan Butler, co-founders of the popular Brooklyn Flea marketplace, which is slated to move into the building next month.

Other Open House tour sites in the neighborhood include P.S. 83, a former Crown Heights public school built in 1921 on Dean Street between Troy and Schenectady avenues, now owned by the Bethel Tabernacle African Methodist Episcopal Church. There, artist Bradford Young created three video installations about the AME church’s history and the black diasporan community in Brooklyn. The event is part of “Black Radical Brooklyn,” an art exhibition created in collaboration with the Weeksville Heritage Center.

Open House attendees in the area can also visit the new, $74 million Lakeside skating rink near Prospect Park or the 1914 Stuyvesant Mansion in Bedford-Stuyvesant, both open on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.

Many of the Open House sites require pre-registration to attend and many, including a tour of the new Kickstarter headquarters in Greenpoint or a canoe tour of the Gowanus Canal, have already filled up.

For a complete list of Open House sites in all five boroughs, visit the “Plan Your Weekend” page at ohny.org.