Skip to content
Bushwick Daily

Community

It’s Getting Cold Out There! Donate Winter Coats to New York’s Homeless, Right in Bushwick!

For the 28th year in a row, thousands of donated coats will be counted, sorted and distributed to organizations serving the homeless and other low-income New Yorkers by New York Cares volunteers.

It’s Getting Cold Out There! Donate Winter Coats to New York’s Homeless, Right in Bushwick!
a child receives a new coat. Photo courtesy of New York Cares.

It’s Getting Cold Out There! Donate Winter Coats to New York’s Homeless, Right in Bushwick!

For the 28th year in a row, thousands of donated coats will be counted, sorted and distributed to organizations serving the homeless and other low-income New Yorkers by New York Cares volunteers.

It’s Getting Cold Out There! Donate Winter Coats to New York’s Homeless, Right in Bushwick!

During a year when homelessness in New York City is at a record high, many people throughout the metropolitan area are in desperate need of winter coats as temperatures drop. Bushwick residents with old coats they’d like to donate to those who can use them don’t even need to leave the neighborhood to support the city’s biggest annual coat drive: two drop-off sites in the area are currently accepting donations, and will continue to do so until Saturday, December 31st.

For 28 years, the vast volunteer network New York Cares has collected coats for the city’s homeless. This year, organizers say that “New York Cares is hoping to collect and…

The rest of this story is for members.

Enter your email to continue.

Thanks for being a member.

Read next

Food & Drink

Brooklyn’s political crowd has a favorite restaurant: Peaches in Bed-Stuy, 58 orders and $17,951 since July 2025

Eight campaigns paid Peaches and its sister restaurants $17,950.56 since July 2025, including Rep. Hakeem Jeffries' and both in today's Bed-Stuy Assembly race.

Today’s governor vote decides whether the Working Families Party keeps the line 12 local candidates run on

News ·

Voters who used the Bushwick and Arlington libraries in June have new poll sites today

News ·

Election Day voter guide: every race, 5 charter questions and where to vote in North Brooklyn and Ridgewood

News ·

Advertise with Bushwick Daily

Reach North Brooklyn, and the New Yorkers who read it.

Written in Bushwick, read across the city since 2009.

129K site visitors a month 1–2M Instagram impressions a month 24K email list members
Advertise with us →
Become a member of Bushwick Daily