Treasures In The Trash: The Amazing Things New Yorkers Throw Away – Video

The second floor of a Department of Sanitation garage in East Harlem is home to thousands of objects New Yorkers threw away over the last three decades.

Anyone who loves second-hand things as much as I do will love this little film about a New York City sanitation worker who’s amassed a museum of the discarded in a huge garage. The reason? They’re not allowed to take stuff home.