After months of anticipation, announcements and scrambling to get tickets, opened its gates on Saturday morning in the Nethermead of Prospect Park.
The smell of cotton candy wafted through the air as vendors were still getting set up, but the early word is that this looks to be a very colorful, gluttonous event.
A gigantic tiered cake at the entrance is expected to explode at some point throughout the day. Meanwhile, in the Hammageddon area celebrating swine, a gigantic pig-shaped oven was getting fired up to roast pork and promises to shoot flames from tip to tail.
Patch will continue to upload photos of the festivities to this gallery throughout the day. Feel free to share your own and tell us your favorite parts of the festival in the comments.
Floyd Bennett Field would have been a better location.
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Judging from your comments you did not even attend this event, so you are placing judgement blindly. First of all this was a food event not a music driven "hipster" event which is obvious since the biggest name band was Hall & Oates a soft rock driven band from the 70's and 80's. The event may have had it's share of downfalls which the promoters fully recognized many of them being adjusted already by sunday. Also don't think for a second that the park's alliance won't be holding them accountable for getting everything back in shape as soon as possible. No this may not happen in 2 days from the event but if you don't see progress in 2 weeks maybe then you can start to get upset. I know that you don't want the outsiders traipsing through your precious neighborhood but the feedback that I read is that the majority of those outsiders upset at the festival ventured out into the neighborhood to enjoy the beauty of it while pumping much money into our local businesses. Afterward people who had never been to this part of Brooklyn were gushing with compliments on how great a time they had out here.