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ASTORIA CENTER
3-17 26th Ave. Queens, NY
718-777-0132
astoria@bignyc.org
GOWANUS CENTER
69 9th St. Brooklyn, NY
718-725-8925
gowanus@bignyc.org
Open Everyday!
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm
& Sat-Sun 10am-5pm
In 2012 BIG!NYC:
* Diverted 1,200 tons of reuseable building materials from the landfill
* Donated over 57 tons of lumber to community & school gardens. That's 1,200 raised garden beds in NYC!
* Gave away $58,780 worth of materials to local organizations.
BIG!NYC Calendar:
5/21 BIG!Compost Volunteer Orientation @ LIC (6:30-8pm). RSVP to compost@bignyc.org
5/28 BIG!Workshops: Know Your Tools: Women & Trans Tool 101 @ BIG!NYC Gowanus (6:30-8pm)
6/8 BIG!Workshops: Scaffolding Lumber Benches with Spark Workshops @ BIG!NYC Gowanus (11:30am-1:30pm)
6/15,22,29 BIG!Workshops: Make Your Own Folding Stool with Mr. Fox @ BIG!NYC Gowanus (3 sessions; 12:30-2pm)
Another Round of "Thank You's" to Another Amazing Crew of Volunteers
Thank you to everyone who came out this weekend to help clean-up BIG!NYC Gowanus. We've had two incredible days of clean-up and the reuse center is starting to look like itself again! Visit our Facebook page to view photos of the volunteers in action, and the progress to getting our reuse center back to working condition: facebook.com/bignyc
We've been touched by how many neighbors, customers, friends, New Yorkers (and New York Care-ers!) have come out to help us get back on our feet. We wouldn't be this far along without all of you! You've inspired us to work harder and get back to our mission of salvaging building materials so that we can continue to help other folks who need the materials. And it's also reminded us about the devastating effects of climate change, which is another reason why BIG!NYC is here - we're trying to reduce the amount of waste filling up the landfills, causing pollution and GHG emissions.
If you'd like to get involved, we could use more volunteers this Thursday and Saturday. Sign up via Eventbrite, or stop by! We don't have power, but we have running water, so our hours have been adjusted to 9am to 4pm each day.
UPDATE - We have power as of Tuesday!!! New times for volunteers - 10am to 5pm.
Thursday, November 8th from 10am to 5pm (COMPLETED - THANK YOU!!!)
Saturday, November 10th from 10am to 5pm (click to RSVP via Eventbrite)
Build It Green!NYC - Gowanus Reuse Center
69 9th St, Brooklyn NY 11215
F or R to 4th Ave/9th St & B61 to Smith and 9th St.
