How we verify markets
Rummage aggregates flea, vintage, farmers, and street-fair listings across New York City, Long Island and North Jersey. This page explains where the information comes from, what our Verified badge does and doesn't mean, and how to tell us when something's wrong.
Where listings come from
Listings are collected from public sources — official market and venue websites, NYC Open Data, and public event listings. Everything we collect lands in a raw archive first. Scraping never writes directly to the site you're reading: listings reach the live site only through a separate promotion step, and duplicates from different sources are merged into a single listing before that happens.
What "Verified" means
A listing is marked Verified when we've matched it to the market's own official page. That involves two checks. First, we search for the market by name and neighborhood and rank the results to favor official sites, skipping aggregators, directories, and social media. Second, we read the candidate page and confirm it actually describes a market whose name matches the listing. Only if both checks pass do we mark the listing Verified and link to that official page.
If a listing isn't Verified, it still links to the source where we found it — it just hasn't been matched to an official page yet. We re-attempt verification periodically, roughly monthly.
Verified means we found and matched an official source. It does not mean we phoned the organizer, and it does not guarantee the market is running today. Markets change plans at short notice — check the official link before you travel.
Location accuracy
Coordinates come from the source when it publishes them, and are otherwise derived from the street address. When that lookup is low-confidence, the listing is labeled Approximate location and the pin should be treated as a neighborhood indicator, not a doorstep.
What we don't do
We don't invent details. If we can't establish a market's hours, dates, or address from a source, we leave the field off rather than guess. Some listings are therefore less complete than others — that's deliberate.
Found something wrong?
Email [email protected] with the listing name and what's off, and we'll fix or remove it. Market organizers: the same address works if you'd like your listing corrected, updated, or taken down. See our terms.