There is no admission fees or tickets of any kind! It is completely free to attend the market.

Yes! Costumes are encouraged.

Yes! Though the market is targeted towards adults, you can certainly bring your kids.

Our next market date is taking place on Saturday, May 17th 2025 from 5pm-9pm at Jay Street Marketplace, in Downtown Schenectady New York. Then, we will be returning to Jay Street Marketplace for our "Nightmare on Jay Street" Celebration on Saturday, October 18th 2025 from 5pm-9pm The Jay Street Marketplace Address is: 162 Jay St, Schenectady, NY 12305

Yes! Many of the cafes and restaurants along Jay Street will be offering speciality themed drinks and foods the night of the market!

Yes! However, we have a very limited number of tents for rental. Vendors who rent tents from use are required to pay an additional $45 tent rental fee. You will arrive to your booth space with your tent, and tent weights ready for you! You will be required to set the tent up on your own, but if needed our staff is happy to assist you, just ask! If you desire one of these limited tent rentals, please email us (nightmareonjayst@gmail.com) as soon as possible prior to your market date to check for availability. THERE WILL BE NO SPARE TENTS ON HAND DURING THE MARKET. THEY MUST BE RESERVED PRIOR TO YOUR MARKET DATE.

The Jay Street area is very fortunate to have multiple parking lots surrounding city hall (Please See the "Event Map" page of the website). We recommend unloading your car at your designated booth space, go park your car, and then walk back from the parking lot to start setting up your booth. Doing this prevents the back up of cars on jay street and makes unloading much safer for everyone.

We announce when we are sending out acceptance emails via social media. We encourage anyone who filled out a vendor application to follow us at @nightmareonjayst to keep an eye out for when they should check their email inbox! The selection process takes some time but, we will let everyone know who was selected no later than 3 months before the market.

Nightmare on Jay Street Market is curated. We select a diverse array of top-tier vendors and artists to give the market attendees the best experience possible. We particularly search for work that falls under the categories of alternative art, oddities, macabre, horror, gothic, vintage, eclectic, low brow - so on and so forth. With that being said, the vendor spaces for every market are limited, If you don't make it into one market - keep applying to future market dates!

Applying to the market is free. After you submit your application, if you're accepted as a vendor for the market, a vendors fee will be due to confirm your booth spot. The pricing is as follows: May 2025: $75 per 10x10 booth space (May markets are outdoors) October 2025: $95 per 10x10 booth space (October markets are outdoors) December 2025: (Pricing to be announced, winter markets will be indoors)

Yes, for safety reasons a tent is a requirement for our outdoor market dates. Our indoor market dates do not require a tent.

It definitely can get windy! Somedays more than others. Wether there is wind or not, we always recommend using tent weights of some sort. When acceptance emails are sent out, we will provide a list of solutions you could use if you don't own tent weights already.

Upstate New York is cold. In mid October, some days are warmer and some days are colder. Wear layers so you can warm yourself up or cool yourself down as needed. A Pair of gloves and a hat doesn't hurt to bring, either!

Yes! We allow the splitting of booths. However, both artist need to send in their own vendor application for us to approve their work. Please mention in the "final comments" section of your application, who you will want to split a booth with.

The city closes the roads for the market from 4-9PM and the market opens to the public from 5-8:30PM. Set up begins promptly at 3 PM Take down begins promptly at 8:30 PM That gives vendors 2 hours to set up their booth, and 1 hour to take down.

YOU MUST PROVIDE YOUR OWN LIGHTING FOR YOUR BOOTH. While jay street has lovely ambient lights strung along jay street - for your booth to be successful good lighting is essential. We recommend using a mobile power bank, which are very common amongst the art vending community. When we send out the acceptance emails, we will attach a PDF of recommended light set ups, and where they can be purchased.

Each Vendor/Artist gets a 10ft x 10ft booth space!

The first step to becoming a vendor is filling out our vendor application on the "Vendor Application" page of this website! Applying as a vendor is completely free.