Housing Works Is Coming — With Kids Clothes, Too

Everyone’s favorite upscale thrift store is now Park Slope-bound.

Housing Works, which donates all of its profits to homeless men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, will open a thrift store on Fifth Avenue and Garfield Street next month, in the long-vacant Brooklyn Kitchens & Baths space.

The shop will stock all of the usual Housing Works trappings (great deals on designer duds, shoes, and small furniture items) as well as a Housing Works first: kid’s clothing.

It will be Housing Works’ second store in Brooklyn.

“We have the location there in Brooklyn Heights that everyone really loves and Park Slope really seemed like a good fit for us. It’s kind of a destination spot within Brooklyn,” said Rebecca Edmondson, PR and Events Manager for Housing Works.

Housing Works boasts several thrift stores in Manhattan, as well as clinics, transitional housing programs and other programming to assist New York City homeless living with HIV and AIDS. According to Edmondson, over the past year the non-profit has seen a 40 percent growth.

The Park Slope store will be small, but jam packed with goodies.

For those interested in cleaning out their closets and donating their old duds to a good cause, Housing Works will hold a at the store on March 26. Once the store is open, folks interested in donating items can simply drop them off at the shop. Locals can also volunteer to staff the store itself.

“We think Park Slope is going to be a really great neighborhood for us,” said Edmondson.