A program of Community Environmental Center.

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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)
6/2 BIG!Workshops: Mosaic What Your Momma Gave You @ BIG!NYC Gowanus (11:30am-1:30pm)
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)

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Welcome to BIGNYC!

Know Your Tools: Women & Trans Tools 101
Join us on Tuesday, May 28th for an evening of comfortable tool talk where no question is forbidden, or at least when it comes to hand tools and power tools! BIG!NYC is launching a new monthly series of DIY-centric conversations and topics to bring...Read More
BIG! NYC Is Partnering with Books Through...
Build it Green! NYC is now a drop spot for Books Through Bars, a program that funnels books into the prison systems, giving inmates access to...Read More
Recycle - A - Bicycle 15th Birthday...
Recycle-A-Bicycle is having their 15th Birthday celebration on December 14th, 2009! Come out and show a great community reuse group some support at...Read More
EXTREME ReUse Makeover!!!
Over the weekend our friends at Buffalo ReUse gathered hundreds of volunteers to help deconstruct a home as part of ABC’s show “Extreme Makeover:...Read More
Stop Trashing the Climate
Though the U.S. represents less than 5% of the world’s population, we generate 22% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, use 30% of the world’s...Read More
THE STRANGE TALE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Written and Directed by Build it Green Donations Coordinator Forrest Gillespie Players: Ken Reynolds, Dylan Latimer (Outreach at Build it Green),...Read More
Manhattan Inn Built Mostly From BIG!NYC...
There's a new bar/restaurant called "The Manhattan Inn" in Greenpoint, built almost entirely from stuff from Build It Green! Designers -- brothers...Read More

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