Question: Where are Housing Works Shops in Brooklyn? Good for Thrift,Vintage,Reused

Housing Works is a unique kind of second hand shop in many ways. It sells items in highly designed window displays online, at weekly auctions. It has multiple shops across NYC. It sells a huge range of cheap vintage clothes, dishes, furniture, kids items, lamps, shoes and more. Most importantly, this organization gives back, with a focus on AIDS.


Answer:

There are three locations for Housing Works in Brooklyn.

1. Brooklyn Heights Thrift Shop

122 Montague Street
Brooklyn, New York 11201
718-237-0521
The first Housing Works Thrift Shop to be located in Brooklyn, this popular Brooklyn Heights thrift store is packed with a rapidly-changing inventory of clothes, furniture, bric-a-brac, accessories, and art.

Located across the street from several popular ladies clothing chain stores, Housing Works offers a convenient and pocketbook-friendly alternative when shopping for evening wear, fancy handbags, belts, and occasionally even shoes. In other words, you might just find a little black cocktail dress or evening bag here for $20 or 60, instead of paying $200 for a more-or-less similar item that's new, across the street. (Your boyfriend or husband will never know the difference.)

If you're in the market to buy furniture, or a lamp, or two pretty matching wine glasses, the selection here is often good. But merchandise moves quickly, and the space is small so there's not a lot of choice.

Therefore, come in a decisive frame of mind, prepared to buy — and if you don't see what you want, come back often.

As with all of the thrift stores associated with this non-profit organization, items in the window are sold by online auction.

2. Housing Works Thrift Shop in Park Slope

266 5th Ave Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 636-2271
Housing Works opened in Park Slope in 2011. And, surprise! According to a Housing Works spokesperson, Park Slope's is the only Housing Works shop in the empire of a dozen or so thrift stores citywide that sells a small collection of secondhand kids' shoes, boardgames, toys and clothing.

Smaller than its sister store in Brooklyn Heights, the Park Slope Housing Works shop, like the dozen or so others city-wide, is artfully crammed with ladies coats and sweaters and pants, shoes, household items, and, once in a while, very cool and affordable kids gear.

Buy the Bag Shop

159 28th Street , Brooklyn NY 11232
(718) 840-2923
Hours are 11-7 Monday thru Saturday and noon till 5 PM on Sundays.

Dropoffs are welcome during business hours.

About Shopping at Housing Works

Shopping here is rather like having a chance to rummage around the attic of a relative whose taste you sometimes love and sometimes hate. You might score, or not. But it's almost always an interesting shopping experience, and the proceeds are used for a good cause, AIDS. And, the prices are attractive. (See Brooklyn's Upscale Thrift Shop Raises Money for AIDS.