Housing Works Thrift Shops - Columbus & 74th St

Payton Tensin

Very nasty employee girls who work there! I was discussing with my friend if she was sure buying a body cream in a jar which was opened and looked used that sells for only $2 discounted from original price in retail stores? Then the employee girl interrupted us and said We Dont Sell Here Used Stuff!! All Our Products Are Brand New!! The Customers Opened It to Smell!! She goes telling her employees in the counter about our conversation, and gave me an angry look while talking to her employee,very agrresive 2 girls 🙍🏻‍♀️ are working there,so be careful if you need help they will shout at you! Not going there anymore 😞 🤷‍♀️ ruined my whole day!!

Vlora Kullashi

Omg the worst thrift store ,I live close to the store and I know how much people used to donate including myself .My husband and me work as superintendent so when sometimes tenant moves to Europe they leave the whole apt bed ,sofa, dishes , we call Housing works at Columbus 74th St .I want the place to make money , the store has less things and furniture no more donations from people sadly this is only due to nasty people working there ,now they hardly have anything in the store to sell if they do it's junk and overpriced ,Today I found one jacket for man from Zara priced for 25$ a good deal 50% less from what I would pay in the store ,looked new not used ,waiting in line to pay and the salesperson with a name Michele who happened to be manager after I asked for one said ,not sorry or nothing she just ripped the ticket and said this is a women's jacket and this is not the price Bc i put it this morning by mistake ,she just wanted the jacket for herself and didn't want to sell it to me ,she thinks that jacket is worth more and the price will be tomorrow morning .I will never send a broken book in the store anymore ,there other thrift stores that will have my donations from now on . Thrift stores are also for the people in the community for our neighbors who can't afford the retail stores prices it does not have to be so expensive ,it's all bc of the You tubers finding this and that and now thrift stores are with prices of French vintage stores.

Anna Bookstaber

We had an unfortunate experience there today. We came eager to donate our goods but housing Works said that they could only take two boxes. This, without any warning. No mention of it on its voicemail, which we checked before packing up boxes and driving there. My husband and I were both there, so I suggested that housing works take two from each of us (all we had was four boxes in total) It is not an insignificant effort to drive our donations to housing works. The manager, Samantha, came out and refused the simple courtesy of letting us drop off an extra two boxes, stating that this was posted on the website. Nope it was not. No actually it wasn’t -not on their voice. This is not the way to run a charitable group. You don’t extinguish peoples charitable inclinations with an odd kind of superiority. You just do the right thing. Housing Works did not.

i DT

This place is just such a good find! They had so many coats, name brand stuff! For really really inexpensive it made me scratch my head, and on top of that solid vintage furniture that makes me wish I had more square footage in my place. Also the ladies shoe collection is pretty on point (pardon the pun) and the service was great, the staff was really nice and helpful and attentive, you can tell they care about their clients and the energy in the space reflects that :) I will be back for sure!