If holiday shopping earns you or the kids a new, warm winter coat or jacket, donate your old one to the poor and homeless in NYC.
2019 is the 31st annual New York Cares Winter Coat Drive, which has delivered more than two million warm winter coats to NYC needy over the years.
As always, there are dozens of drop-off locations where you can donate a warm winter coat or jacket you no longer want, or one the kids have outgrown, to poor and needy New Yorkers.
The annual winter coat collection is as much a part of the holidays in NYC as the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree and the fancy department store holiday windows, and you can donate through the end of the year to meet demand.
Drop-off locations include NYPD precincts, libraries, Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal, participating auto dealerships throughout New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley, and the New York Cares Coat Drive Warehouse in Midtown.
Just $20 buys a brand new winter coat for a New Yorker in need. Donate any amount here.
Some are already accepting donations, and others begin accepting next week, through the Friday before New Year’s
New York Cares Coat Drive Warehouse
157 West 31st Street
Monday–Friday 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Any New York City Police Precinct
24 Hours a day
Participating Queens Library Locations
During branch operating hours
Grand Central Terminal
Track 16 – Graybar Passage
Monday–Friday 7:00–9:30 a.m.
New York Penn Station
LIRR Concourse
Monday–Friday 7:00–9:30 a.m.
Participating Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association members
During location operating hours
If you don’t have a coat to donate physically, you can do it virtually, by making a donation on the New York Cares website to purchase one or more coats for a needy New Yorker, adult or child.
Donating a winter coat or jacket will warm your heart along with the body of the recipient.
Because New York cares about the poor and homeless.
This article about the New York Cares Winter Coat Drive has been published annually since 2014, and has been updated for 2019
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