Lots of New Yorkers need warm coats this winter
New York Cares
Various locations
Suggested donation: 1 gently worn jacket
212-228-5000
www.newyorkcares.org
While very few of us are looking forward to tomorrow’s twenty-degree temperature, imagine how worse it would be if you were homeless and/or couldn’t afford a winter coat? The twenty-first annual New York Cares Coat Drive continues through December 31, giving everyone a chance to donate a gently worn jacket to those in need. So as you’re adding new clothing to your closets this season, either given as gifts or via gift cards, take an extra-long look at those coats hiding in the back that you haven’t worn in years and consider dropping them off at any of a number of spots where New York Cares will collect them, including Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station, Port Authority, police precincts, the Pond at Bryant Park, Time Warner Cable stores, the U.S. Coast Guard Recruiting and Service Center at the Staten Island Ferry terminal, Janovic Paint and Decorating Centers, and Oz Moving and Storage Locations. It will make a stranger happy, help you feel good, and keep you a little warmer through the rest of the winter. (And be sure to wander through the New York Cares Web site for other great opportunities to give back to the community.)