It is moving to greener pastures — literally.
Outdoor food emporium Smorgasburg is ditching its Brooklyn Bridge Park location and will relocate to Prospect Park at the end of the month — a move organizers say will be bittersweet.
“We’re sad to leave Brooklyn Bridge Park, but it’s hard to complain when our new home is literally Brooklyn’s backyard,” said Eric Demby, co-founder of the Brooklyn Flea and its off-shoot.
Demby says the market has to skedaddle from its current locale in a concrete lot near Pier 5 because the privately-run park wants to turn the site into green space.
From Aug. 30, the outdoor eatery will pitch its tents on Prospect Park’s Breeze Hill — which is off Well House Drive near the Lincoln Road entrance to the park in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.
This is the second time renovations in the park have forced the market to scram — it first opened inside the shell of the Tobacco Warehouse in Dumbo next to the Brooklyn Bridge in 2012, but moved to Brooklyn Heights the following year when theater outfit Saint Ann’s Warehouse began transforming the historic building into a performance venue.
Demby said he is bummed to be leaving the waterfront nabes, but is excited to bring the market to a new crowd from park-adjacent neighborhoods like Ditmas Park and Windsor Terrace who may never have had the chance to sample Indian-Mexican fusion tacos or deep-fried cheese curds before.
“Now all these other people who don’t really go to Smorgasburg are going to start coming there, so it kind of breathes this new life into it,” he said. “That’s going to be the most exciting part about it.”
Smorgasburg at Prospect Park (Well House Drive near East Drive in Prospect Park, www.smorg
