Posted on 08/26/2020 8:12:32 AM PDT by SJackson
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure: This spring and summer, the adage rings especially true.
The hotter months were always peak times for Big Apple move-ins and -outs. But standard relocations coupled with apartment purges by those fleeing the city’s COVID-19 outbreak have created a gold mine of curbside gems put out for the taking.
From midcentury furniture to one-off antiques, home decor of the highest caliber has been plentiful — and free — for anyone lucky and quick enough to pluck them off the concrete. (Not to mention strong and canny enough to lug their loot home.)
From March on, as thrift shops and secondhand sellers remained shuttered due to the coronavirus, many New Yorkers came to rely on the informal give-and-take economy known as stooping.
The practice of sharing and snagging discarded freebies has gotten a boost from Instagram accounts dedicated to promoting pieces out on the sidewalk and ripe for the picking, like StoopingNYC and CurbAlertNYC.
The anonymous Brooklyn duo who run StoopingNYC say the pandemic has led to a ballooning following (now at 46,000 and counting) as well as an uptick in submissions for full-apartment furniture dumps as opposed to one-off finds.
Over the past few months, the couple has also seen emails and direct messages shift from followers who send in photos of items they stumble across in the street to followers who are hauling their own goods to the curb.
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Don’t throw the stuff to the curb!
DONATE IT TO THE SALVATION ARMY!..................They will even pick it up!................
Hotter months for moving?
I recall from growing up in Chicago, that in January or the other colder months, people would leave their furniture outside for a couple of days during a deep freeze to kill all the cockroaches and eggs, etc. Then take it back inside to be a little less buggy.
The upside of NYC becoming like Haiti?
“Moving due to Covid”
I got news for you, they are NOT moving due to Covid!
Free COVID and BedBugs? What more could you ask for?
Kramer’s watching an armoire on the street for Elaine when two “street toughs” decide they want to take it. Later, Kramer spots them and Jerry talks Kramer into confronting them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkp5wuuarOs
Very true! They're moving because of the deliberate actions of the governor and the mayor who desperately want to blame their grievous mistakes and their deadly tyranny on The Virus rather than where it belongs -- directly and solely on them!
I was expecting to see an article about the looters!
if you see anything mission or craftsman give me a shout!
This “stooping” thing is far more efficient than donating to the Salvation Army...it’s amazing how quickly stuff disappears when left on the sidewalk.
Curb alerts are done all over......no big deal.
Build a barricade and burn it.
Great...free furniture so I can haul it back to my rat,cockroach infested building, pay ridiculous rents, be accosted,even murdered in my home town of New York. Covid and communism don’t work.
Curby’s has a branch in NYC?
Unfortunately a lot of stuff is cheaply made from man-made materials, despite being advertised as "solid wood". Paper veneers over particle-board. I've picked up free furniture on the sidewalk and carted it home on my truck, only if it's solid hardwoods. Carpentry is a hobby of mine, and the hardwoods can live another day when repurposed as new furniture. A son-in-law is also an avid collector of items tossed onto the sidewalk or front yards as "free", or given away. He filled my daughter's home with classy furniture gotten cheap. For instance, vintage chairs worth thousands each for a few bucks, also coffee tables, and antiques for nothing. Much better than buying Ikea junk.
“standard relocations coupled with apartment purges by those fleeing the city’s COVID-19 outbreak”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I can’t stand seeing someone’s trash with the sign “Free” on it.
This is new here in my area, it’s just a sign that this nation is going 3rd world. People have no dignity or respect.
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