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RSVP on Facebook for Build It Green!NYC Day, this Sunday, August 11th from 1pm-6:30pm on Shore Blvd.
A day of reuse & family friendly events!
  • GrowNYC's Stop 'n' Swap Clothing Swap (1-4pm)
  • Goodwill's E-Waste Collection & Homegoods Swap (1-4pm)
  • Reuse Fashion Show hosted by Materials for the Arts (***4pm*** new time!)  
  • Materials for the Arts hosts Art Making (1-5pm)
  • BIG!Compost Pop-Off Drop-Off (accepting your frozen food scraps from 1-6pm)
  • Socrates Sculpture Park presents Pinata Making (1-4pm)
  • Greenmarket Youth Education hosts Face-painting & GM Temporary Tattoos (1-4pm)
  • Green Reading Circle with Ms. Sofia, Queens Library (2pm)
  • Greenmarket hosts Make Veggie Stamp Art (2-3pm)
  • Solar One's Solar Powered Pedals and Cars (2:30pm)
  • Skraptacular's Creating Skrapestries of No-Aways (3pm)
  • Recycle-A-Bicycle's Free Kids Bike Check Up and Repains
  • Queens Botanical Garden's Compost Education and Worm Bin Building Demo (3:30pm)
  • GrowNYC's Recycling Olympics (3:30pm)
  • Noguchi Museum presents Transform Rocks Demo (4:30pm)
  • Community Environmental Center's Make Your Paint!

  • Less=More Map of NYC's Reuse Savvy Places

  • Triple R Events +BIG!NYC host Ping Pong in the Park

  • NYC Cool Roofs, Empower Solar, White Roof Project & more! 
  • Plus live music from Tletlpatltzin (1pm), KB Jones (2:30pm), East River Blues Band (4:30pm), and an Ukulele Social (2-6pm).

An email sent to [email protected]: 

 

Hey BIGNYC! On our last trip to the Astoria location I saw a poster that you wanted people to submit photos of stuff they did with things from BIGNYC.

 

We have done a lot of cool stuff with the cool stuff you sell but perhaps our fave is this table and set of benches we made from the wood you sold us of a deconstructed water tower. We think its Alaskan [yellow] cedar. The wood was dark dark dark but a beautiful white/honey color when sanded, We had to cut off the pieces that had the grooves cut into them for the tension bands but we saved them because they are a nice reminder of the original use. 

The table and benches are held together with bolted tension rods and we had the bases made for us by a local friend and welder.

The wood is beautifully thick and sturdy. The final table is about 8' long by 3.5' wide. Honestly this picture doesn't do it justice.

Thanks for being who you are and for salvaging the absolute best of what is being demo'ed all over this city.

Sincerely,
Caroline & Rob Papocchia
ANTIQUE SALVAGED YELLOW PINE SUBFLOOR 
$0.60 per linear foot

ALU: 26746 in Astoria 

VINTAGE TANKER DESKS 
$450 each (13 available)

ALU: 26717 in Gowanus

PLUS more desks in Astoria 


Watch BIG!NYC's Justin Green & Erik Martig discuss compost in NYC on
ABC 7's New York Viewpoint.


Share your projects made with BIG!NYC materials! 
Send us your before and after photos to: [email protected]
 

Have a little outdoor space that is just screaming the need for a cute little sub irrigation planter?  Well this is the class for you. This workshop will be all about building SIPs (sub irrigation planters), which have a reservoir for water underneath the soil. Taught by Joe Chavez from Solar One. $40, all materials included.
Tuesday, August 13th
6:30-8:30pm @ BIG!NYC Gowanus
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NEW IN ASTORIA:
CLASSIC AMERICAN DISHES
$1 each (120 available) 

ALU: 26743 in Astoria

CARPET TILES 

$2 each (1,900 available) 

ALU: 26726 in Astoria

LG ULTRA-LG FRIDGE 

$750

ALU: 26724 in Astoria

LUMINATED WALL LIGHT FIXTURES / SCONCES

$3 each (22 available) 

ALU: 26741 in Astoria

TRADITIONAL CLAWFOOT BATHTUB

$425

ALU: 26734 in Astoria

MAPLE CABINET SET
w STAINLESS HARDWARE 
$1,675

ALU: 26557 in Astoria

NEW IN GOWANUS:
KWC CUSTOM COUNTER 
$375 (74in wide)

ALU: 26738 in Gowanus

CARPET TILES BY MILLIKEN 
$2 each (18in x 18in) 
ALU: 26719 in Gowanus
9 PIECE CABINET SET 
$550
ALU: 26634
COLONIAL BABY CRADLE 
$45

ALU: 26733 in Gowanus

KOHLER UNDERTONE SINK 
$349
ALU: 26739 in Gowanus 
BOXY BOXY SIDE TABLES 

$20 each (2 available)
ALU: 26675
ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS IN NYC:
BIG!COMPOST DROP OFF MAP 

Forest Hills Drop
New Food Scrap Drop-Off Sites in Queens &
Brooklyn! 
 
www.bignyc.org/drop-sites
Sunday, August 11th, 1pm-6:30pm.
Astoria Park Alliances present Astoria Park Shore Fest: Build It Green!NYC Day! Shore Blvd. Free!

Tuesday, August 13th, 6:30-8:30pm.
BIG!Workshops: Faux Water Tower Sub Irrigation Planters. BIG!NYC Gowanus. $40, all materials included.

Saturday, August 17th, 10am-4pm.
LESEC collects e-waste at La Salle Street (Morningside Heights). Between Broadway & Amsterdam, Manhattan.

Sunday, August 18th, 1-7pm.
Astoria Park Alliances present Astoria Park Shore Fest: Big River Jam! Shore Blvd. Free!

Tuesday, August, 20th, 6:30-9pm.
BIG!Workshops: Tips and Trucks for Painting with Maya Suess. BIG!NYC Gowanus. Adults. $25 per person.

Tuesday, August, 27th, 6:30-8:30pm.
BIG!Workshops: Know Your Tools: Women and Trans DIY 101. BIG!NYC Gowanus. Suggested $5-$10 donation.

Thursday, August, 29th, 7-9pm.
BIG!Workshops: From Fire to LED: Lessons in Lighting. BIG!NYC Gowanus. Suggested $5-$10 donation.

Saturday, September, 14th, 12:30-2:30pm.
BIG!Workshops: Disco Ball Crafting with Shaun from Socrates Sculpture Park. BIG!NYC Astoria. $25 per person, adults only.

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Mon-Fri 10-6
Sat-Sun 10-5
718-777-0132
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BIG!NYC-Gowanus

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Mon-Fri 10-6
Sat-Sun 10-5
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