Ikea’s New Secondhand Shop Looks a Lot Like Facebook Marketplace

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( wednesday, september 18 at home [Ikea’s New Secondhand Shop Looks a Lot Like Facebook Marketplace]( A closer look at the company’s new “Preowned” concept. Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photos Getty Images; Courtesy retailer. I recently got rid of an Ikea cube storage unit I’d had for nearly a decade by participating in a time-honored New York tradition: I left it in my building lobby. By that evening, someone had taken it. Who among us hasn’t rescued a stray LACK end table or an Ikea stacking stool from a street corner at some point in our lives? For the slightly more enterprising, there’s always Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist, where an Ikea item with a little more life in it might actually be worth it to someone to hop on the subway and lug it home. And so the cycle continues (at least until the piece falls apart). [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [An Abandoned Red Hook Building Redesigned for a Cookbook Author An open kitchen on the top floor meant Jessie Sheehan could perfect her recipes and look out onto the New York Harbor.]( By Adriane Quinlan [Making Plant Kween’s Crown Heights Apartment Bloom Just add wallpaper and lots of sun.]( By Wendy Goodman [A Chelsea One-Bedroom With a Pool for Under a Million Plus a loftlike Park Slope one-bed with tin ceilings and two working fireplaces.]( By Kim Velsey [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved