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Free: Large Lap Desk (Hell's Kitchen) 8d - Sturdy, steady and large--about 14x20". Thick bamboo top; thick, firm pad underneath. Easy Midtown Manhattan pickup. Serious inquiries only please--getting fed up with flakes and choosy beggars. Your phone a must. And you have to actually ANSWER it. Note to the schmucks who flaked last time: don't re-apply, OK?

Free: Black Lap Desk (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 22d - Slightly scuffed but no serious damage. Work surface 13 x 17 inches. Top slides left or right to reveal storage compartment. Thick, firm pad for stability. East Midtown Manhattan pickup. Serious inquiries only please--getting fed up with flakes and choosy beggars. Your phone a must.

Free: 4 OHM Stereo Speakers (Hell's Kitchen) Gifted 57d - Serious inquiries only, please! These are high-grade OHM speskert (made in Brooklyn!) that have served me well, but I no longer have room for them. Each retains its original 'egg' tweeter mounted on top. NOTE: they weigh 17 lbs each! No fakes, please! We will agree on a day and time for pick up and I accept no excuses for failure to appear. Got it?

Free: Philips Toothbrush Head (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 64d - Reply with a phone number or forget it, OK? Clear? This is the same as the ones I unloaded a couple of weeks ago. It's an "A type head," made for the earliest type of Philips electric toothbrush. Easy pickup in Midtown, unless, of course, you didn't provide a phone number.

Free: Stylish Sophisticated Shoppng Cart (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 68d - Just your basic large-capacity Costco-worthy grocery cart --- except for ONE thing: it is (see pix) of the three-wheeled type, which makes going up/down stairs and curbs a breeze, even when heavily loaded. Clean, little-used, gluten-free. Easy pick-up in Midtown if you're not a flake, or hard to reach, or not responding to texts, or always trying to change plans. So if you want this chair and are not, in short, a pain in the ass, send me your cell phone number so we can arrange pick-up almost any day, almost any time.

Free: Really Nice Chair (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 68d - Standard-size desk chair. It swivels! Rolls around on casters. Kind of off-white color. Clean and gluten-free. Easy pick-up in Midtown if you're not a flake, or hard to reach, or not responding to texts, or always trying to change plans. So if you want this chair and are not, in short, a pain in the ass, send me your cell phone number so we can arrange pick-up almost any day, almost any time.

Free: Philips Toothbrush Head (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 90d - Reply with a phone number of forget it, OK? Clear? This is the same as the ones I unloaded a couple of weeks ago. It's an "A type head," made for the earliest type of Philips electric toothbrush. Easy pickup inm Midtown, unless, of course, you didn't provide a phone number.

Free: Pots and Pans (Hell's Kitchen) Gifted 90d - FIRST: to adopt this collection, you must reply with phone number--or forget it, OK? Is that clear? Next: all used but in good condition. 1-1/2 qt lidded pot (Macy's Belgique brand), 10" shallow-dfryt skillet, 12" deep-fry skillet, 9" steamer insert, also works a colader, stainless steel counter-top container keeps your wooden spoons etc within reach.

Free: Four Voice Recorders (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 105d - Yesterday's tech today? Takes ya back, dont it--back to when your phone couldn't do the job. These are all working, all late-model recorders, models that reached their peak and then fell over the edge. In the pic above, the one on the left is a nice, well-behaved little Philips digital. Next comes a very nice Olympus digital of truly enormous capacity; records for hours.Then come Little Recorder That Could, tiniest and lightest of Olympus digitals, followedby a real graybeard, an Olympus TAPE recorder. Note: the two on the right are wearing blue rubber bands to keep the battery door closed. Stupid project engineers thought plastic would make a good latch. Wonder what they're doing today? Probably designed fragile, short-lived junk for Samsung. To claim, you MUST provide a phone number. One that you pick up.

Free: CURB ALERT: Pet Watering Device (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 111d - It's a gallon plastic jug inmverted over a bowl that automatically fills as dog or cat drinks. Gray plastic, VG condition. If you want it and can pick up in midtown within 2 days I'll go down, bring it in to my apt. and hold it for you. Assuming it's still there. Free: Philips Electric Toothbrush Heads (Hell's Kitchen) Gifted 113d - 3 of them, unused. Important: these are the "A"-style heads for the very early Philips toothbrushes; they won't fit any of the later models. Serious inquiries only, please. Pick up in Midtown any day 9am to Noon.

Free: Wooden Book Cases (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 130d - There are 2 in my basement (elevator avbl). Still in original cartons (they're flat-packed), 62" x 11" x 28". Like that shown here but lighter in color--almost blond. Replying? Phone number required (one that you pick up, please). Serious inquiries only -- which is the polite way of saying Flakes Not Welcome.

Free: Victorinox Laptop Shoulder bag (Hell's Kitchen) Gifted 203d - Not repeat NOT a backpack type. Black Nylon construction. Measures approx 18x12. Clean, near new condition; only the carry handles are worn. Pickup midtown Manhattan any day 9 to Noon preferred, but may adjust to your schedule. Be warned: have had more than my share of flakes, so you get ONE shot at this, and if you bail, I move on. Got it?

Free: About 15 Lbs of Food & Food Mixes (Hell's Kitchen) Gifted 219d - Kraft Mac & Cheese, cocoa, rice, Zataran's spiced rice, Spam, popcorn, instant mashed potatoes, etc. Everything you see here.

Free: Electric Toothbrush Heads (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 255d - 4, all new and unused, for one of the earlier Philips electric brush models. These were, I believe, called the Type A heads. Hell's Kitchen location. Reply with a phone number (one that you pick up) or don't reply at all. Flakes not welcome. If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t show up as promised, doesn’t respond to phone calls or messages, simply disappears w/o warning, please move on. Required: You'll sign your name to all messages (I get e-mails by the long ton and often can’t tell one sender from another), respond promptly when I call you, come when you say you will--or at least show me the courtesy of cancelling if you change your mind or are delayed. If this is too hard for you (and it's astonishing how many people can't hack common courtesy), then again, please move on.

Free: Italy in Maps, Books & Brochures (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 283d - Traveler writer is packing it in and releasing his “vasto assortimento”of material on Italy—enough stuff that you’ll need to bring a shopping cart (you’ll have to take it all). Here’s what’s on offer: MAPS of Italy, of Italian Regions, of cities major and minor, of hiking trails, bike trails, wine roads, nature reserves and more. The maps are in excellent condition. BOOKS AND BROCHURES of villages, individual attractions (Pompeii, castles, that sort of thing, local culinary specialties, local; events, traditional festas, sporting activities, and so on. And on. Excellent condition. VERY IMPORTANT! These items are in English, Italian accompanied by English translation, and Italian only. Those in Italian only are, like all the others, very well illustrated—so well that you won’t need any more help than you can get from Google Translate. However, if that is too much effort for you; if you got a case of the dry fantods when you saw the Italian words “vasto assortimento” in the opening paragraph, then these are not for you, OK? To claim, your cell-phone number is mandatory. Flakes not welcome. You'll sign your name to all messages (I get e-mail and texts by the long ton and often can’t tell one sender from another), respond promptly when I call you, come when you say you will--or at least show me the courtesy of cancelling if you change your mind or are delayed. If this is too hard for you (and it's astonishing how many people can't hack common courtesy), please move on. Pick up in Midtown any day within a 1-hour window between 8 AM and Noon OR 6-8 PM.; say when you want to come in your first message. Address: 360 W. 36th St. bet. 8th & 9th. Aves. South side of street. (A, C, & E subways near; buses too.) Bill

Free: Jane Austen Pamphlet (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 283d - About 5"x8", 37pp. a few B/W photos. Are you the type of Austen fan that gets all goo-goo-eyed over the innumerable Austen movies and TV serials of Dear Jane's novels? If so, read on with care, pilgrim, as this may NOT be for you. This is a scholarly work about Austen's comings and goings, her to-ing and fro-ings, in a town she didn't much like, but which figured importantly* in her novels. What's in here is what some would call trivia but, Jane being rather a biggie in the literary world, merits the term minutiae: when Jane wrote letters about shopping, which plays she didn't see in June of 1799, and most riveting of all, her extremely peripheral connection to a court case involving some maternal relatives and a wily shopkeeper, for which Jane was out of town. Rich stuff indeed, and there's more. If you want this (how can you not?), you MUST include your cell phone AND pick up when I call. I want to get this over with after no more than three messages between us, preferably two. Unfortunately, that seems to be beyond the capabilities of most TN claimants, so if you are among them, seek elsewhere. *Here you see one of the very few correct uses of importantly; considering the deteriorating standards of our age, possibly the last in your lifetime.

Request: Meat Grinder (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 283d - Any kind--old-time hand-cranked, electric, even the attachment that goes on a KitchenAid mixer. I have a yen to make my own sausages, grind chicken for home-made chaplee kebabs and that sort of thing. So almost any kind will do--exceptions include coal-fired, steam-driven or diesel-fueled commercial models. Free: Jane Austen Pamphlet (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 299d - About 5"x8", 37pp. a few B/W photos. Are you the type of Austen fan that gets all goo-goo-eyed over the innumerable Austen movies and TV serials of Dear Jane's novels? If so, read on with care, pilgrim, as this may NOT be for you. This is a scholarly work about Austen's comings and goings, her to-ing and fro-ings, in a town she didn't much like, but which figured importantly* in her novels. What's in here is what some would call trivia but, Jane being rather a biggie in the literary world, merits the term minutiae: when Jane wrote letters about shopping, which plays she didn't see in June of 1799, and most riveting of all, her extremely peripheral connection to a court case involving some maternal relatives and a wily shopkeeper, for which Jane was out of town. Rich stuff indeed, and there's more. If you want this (how can you not?), you MUST include your cell phone AND pick up when I call. I want to get this over with after no more than three messages between us, preferably two. Unfortunately, that seems to be beyond the capabilities of most TN claimants, so if you are among them, seek elsewhere. *Here you see one of the very few correct uses of importantly; considering the deteriorating standards of our age, possibly the last in your lifetime.

Free: Reusable Freezer Packs (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 315d - 1.5 lbs eac. Chill your picnic basket, cool your pillow and bed before trying to sleep in the Dog Days of summer. Sooth muscle aches and bruises. hours of family fun. How can you possibly resist? To claim, your cell-phone number is mandatory. Flakes not welcome. If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t show up as promised, doesn’t respond to phone calls or messages, simply disappears w/o warning, please move on. Required: You'll sign your name to all messages (I get e-mails by the long ton and often can’t tell one sender from another), respond promptly when I call you, come when you say you will--or at least show me the courtesy of cancelling if you change your mind or are delayed. If this is too hard for you (and it's astonishing how many people can't hack common courtesy), please move on. Pick up in Midtown any day within a 1-hour window between 8 AM and Noon OR 6-8 PM.; say when one day before. Address: 360 W. 36th St. bet. 8th & 9th. Aves. South side of street. (A, C, & E subways near; buses too.) Bill

Free: Italy in Maps, Books & Brochures (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 319d - Traveler writer is packing it in and releasing his “vasto assortimento”of material on Italy—enough stuff that you’ll need to bring a shopping cart (you’ll have to take it all). Here’s what’s on offer: MAPS of Italy, of Italian Regions, of cities major and minor, of hiking trails, bike trails, wine roads, nature reserves and more. The maps are in excellent condition. BOOKS AND BROCHURES of villages, individual attractions (Pompeii, castles, that sort of thing, local culinary specialties, local; events, traditional festas, sporting activities, and so on. And on. Excellent condition. VERY IMPORTANT! These items are in English, Italian accompanied by English translation, and Italian only. Those in Italian only are, like all the others, very well illustrated—so well that you won’t need any more help than you can get from Google Translate. However, if that is too much effort for you; if you got a case of the dry fantods when you saw the Italian words “vasto assortimento” in the opening paragraph, then these are not for you, OK? To claim, your cell-phone number is mandatory. Flakes not welcome. You'll sign your name to all messages (I get e-mail and texts by the long ton and often can’t tell one sender from another), respond promptly when I call you, come when you say you will--or at least show me the courtesy of cancelling if you change your mind or are delayed. If this is too hard for you (and it's astonishing how many people can't hack common courtesy), please move on. Pick up in Midtown any day within a 1-hour window between 8 AM and Noon OR 6-8 PM.; say when you want to come in your first message. Address: 360 W. 36th St. bet. 8th & 9th. Aves. South side of street. (A, C, & E subways near; buses too.) Bill

Free: Seasonal Adjustment Lamp (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 320d - This lamp helps you adjust to Season Adjustment Disorder--the lag that bedevils some people when we go back and forth from Daylight Saving Time. SAD is a type of seasonal depression that also occurs in winter. One hour a days with this lamp, which sits on a desk or table, can help lessen depression. To claim, your cell-phone number is mandatory. Flakes not welcome. You'll sign your name to all messages (I get e-mails by the long ton and often can’t tell one sender from another), respond promptly when I call you, come when you say you will--or at least show me the courtesy of cancelling if you change your mind or are delayed. If this is too hard for you (and it's astonishing how many people can't hack common courtesy), please move on. Pick up in Midtown any day within a 1-hour window between 8 AM and Noon OR 6-8 PM.; say when one day before. Address: 360 W. 36th St. bet. 8th & 9th. Aves. South side of street. (A, C, & E subways near; buses too.) Bill

Free: Tortilla Press (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 320d - Cast iron, unused, clean. Weighs about 3 lbs. Makes 8" tortillas. To claim, your cell-phone number is mandatory. Flakes not welcome. You'll sign your name to all messages (I get e-mails by the long ton and often can’t tell one sender from another), respond promptly when I call you, come when you say you will--or at least show me the courtesy of cancelling if you change your mind or are delayed. If this is too hard for you (and it's astonishing how many people can't hack common courtesy), please move on. Pick up in Midtown any day within a 1-hour window between 8 AM and Noon OR 6-8 PM.; say when one day before. Address: 360 W. 36th St. bet. 8th & 9th. Aves. South side of street. (A, C, & E subways near; buses too.) Bill

Free: 24 Small Glass Jars (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 331d - Two dozen clear glass yogurt jars, capacity about 5 oz each. Most are Nounos, some are Oui--those are brands of yogurt, not glassmakers. Perfect for candle- or jam-makers, also good as spice jars or glasses for tequila shots or maybe even yogurt shots. Use your imaginations, people! Black, of course. Carry-on size with expansion gusset to delight fans of over-packing. Clean, nearly new, all zips functional, interior has the usual useless compartments (easily ignorable), good wheels (4). Pull handle is standard two-pole style and length save for the pop-up button: when handle is close, a push of the button causes the handle to pop up, for hours of family fun. Easy Midtown Manhattan pickup: almost any day/ time--but your cellphone number is a must (what if I have to cancel @ short notice? Huh?) If that gives you the blue creevies, count yourself out. My cell: 347 836 0348. Always SIGN your texts or e-mails: I often have several TN posts going at once and sometimes get mixed up

Request: Flower Pots (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 337d - A half-dozen, please, 8" diameter (at top). Preferably terra cotta but this beggar ain't choosy. Free: iPod Nano Charger (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 341d - If you know what an iPod Nano is--are there any of you left?--this may be just what you need.Perhaps you lost your charger. Perhaps you figure that it never hurts to have a spare charger. I don'\t question your motive, I don't judge. I just want you to be electronically happy. I want to be happy too, so to claim this rarity you MUST provide your cellphone number for ease of communication. Then I'll send you details for a very simple pickup in Midtown Manhattan. Deal?

Free: Lights for Artworks or Monitors (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 345d - Matching pair of IKEA Brynet painting or computer monitor lights (only one show in photo) , with extra halogen bulbs. See details here. Reply with phone number a must.

Free: Maps of South and Central America (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 351d - Everything you see here. All in good or better condition. Available mornings any day Midtown Manhattan to anyone who (a) will provide a cellphone number, which I absolutely require, and (b) is not planning top establish a drug cartel.

Free: 4 Plastic Containers (Hell's Kitchen) Gifted 351d - Clean containers, capacity 1 quart to 1 pint that formerly contained dry food items (store-bought nuts, corn starch, etc.) . 1 round white (not in photo), 1 round yellow, 1 square yellow, 1 square clear. Handy for storing whatever. Available mornings in Midtown Manhattan. Take all. Reply with cell phone number required.

Free: Glass jars (Hell's Kitchen) Expired 351d - 8 clear glass French yogurt jars (OUI brand) + a few other clear glass cylindrical jars suitable for candle or jams and jellies. Available any morning in Midtown Manhattan. Reply with cell phone number required. No flakes, please.