Community Corner
Second Chance Toys Holiday Toy Drive
Second Chance Toys is a charitable organization that collects gently used plastic toys, then cleans and redistributes them to children in need.
The organization is holding a toy drive for gently used plastic toys on December 14-17th.
Toys can be dropped off in your area at the following locations:
PARK SLOPE
808 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
TRIBECA
200 Church Street
New York, NY 11013
UNION SQUARE
67 East 11th Street
New York, NY 10003
UPPER WEST SIDE
466 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10024
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UPPER EAST SIDE
163 E 84th Street
New York, NY 10028
RAPID PARK
480 Riverside Dr. (120th St)
New York, NY 10027
To check out more drop-off locations and other information, go to www.secondchancetoys.org.
Second Chance Toys is a seven year old organization that has a really interesting back story:
It was started by a then high school student who was tired of seeing perfectly good used toys thrown to the curb. She started collecting them one by one until her basement was full of them. She then enlisted her mom to help her clean them, and distribute them to local churches and other organizations, who served children in need.
To date, Second Chance Toys has donated more than 110,000 toys to needy kids all across the country. Our work this year becomes more important than ever before with the devastation of Hurricane Sandy right in the area that we call home.
