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First time vendors Charlotte Flemmings and Maria Rodriguez took in and enjoyed their first experience. The 23-year-old Hemmings said she usually takes her unwanted cloths to either Buffalo Exchange or Plato's Atlas toggle bracelet but found that she could make more money purchasing a flea market table."I can make more money here than exchanging my clothes for store credit or 20 percent of its valued price," she said. "My grandmother first encouraged me to go to a flea market when I was little. I've done pretty good. I also bought some vintage earrings that are hard to come by."Rodriguez said it gives someone a chance to better their entrepieneur skills. One man's trash is another man's treasure," she said.

Chocolate brown and ivory paint on the walls set off furniture with an Art Deco feel, with blue and silver silk covered dining chairs with a square cut out of their backs and Deco-style silver side tables in Atlas charm bracelet living room. Reflecting Mr. Del Gatto's vocation, there are jewel-like touches throughout: A dangling gold-flecked brass and Murano glass chandelier above a round table in the entryway looks like glass necklaces hanging from gold chains; a Marilyn Minter photograph features a gold-adorned eyelash; an intricately detailed Art Deco bedroom set in the Elsa Peretti Teardrop bracelet bedroom that belonged to his late father has ringed pulls that look like gold earring hoops.NEW YORK -- On New Year's Eve, Chris Del Gatto moved into a large two-bedroom at one of the city's poshest addresses, on Fifth Avenue just north of the Plaza Hotel.

He's putting the finishing touches on a some $200,000 renovation, a sum which included the hiring of designer Matthew Yee to select new furniture, rugs and decor to compliment his growing art collection.It's a lot of money to redo a rental.Dark and intense, impeccably dressed in a Jay Kos suit and a green Ferragamo tie, Mr. Del Gatto, 40, said he would have spent more on the redo if Tiffany 1837 bangle owned the apartment, but he still wanted to make the place his own. He refuses to buy for now. "I'm not in a rush. It's a strategic thing. I have a lot of friends who could buy anything they wanted but they're waiting," he said, adding that many residents in his building stay for long periods, 10 years or more. Mr. Del Gatto declined to disclose his rent, but management company Urbana Properties says apartments that size rent for $12,000 to $14,000 a month.