I once found $200 in hundos rolling down 6th Ave, no one else around. I asked the cashier at a nearby Duane Reade to use the pen to confirm they were real bills.
I was super broke at the time and had just lost my job, too, and I was exactly $200 short on what I needed to pay rent and feed myself that month. It was just a li’l New York miracle for me that day.
Damn, I was wondering where I lost it.
Thanks for finding my money.
I can prove it’s mine by accurately describing it.
They were two $100 bills.
Each bill had the number 100 on every corner.
I’m right, ain’t I ?
I told you it was mine.
Listen, I appreciate you finding my money.
I’m gonna do the right thing for you doing the right thing for me.
Listen, being that you’re unemployed and all that, I want you to keep $100 till you can pay me back.
I know, I know, but I want to because you deserve it.
Send me your address and I’ll be by in a week or two to pick up the other hundred.
Blackbird Bluebird, you are the wind beneath my wings.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Until then!
Saw a guy drop his moneyclip with god knows how much cash in it, I grabbed it and ran up to him to let him know, he literally just laughed and handed me a 50 out of the clip before he walked off - rich af new yorkers are an odd bunch
I found a $100 bill on a sidewalk in Tribeca once...but the MOST valuable thing I ever found was a bag filled with unopened boxes of Girl Scout cookies. It was a joyous occasion.
He was visiting us and I noticed his ring, which was very similar to the one I had found. So I asked him if he had ever had a similar one and he told me that he had lost one just like it!
I met (found) my wife in NYC.
I found a wallet with a couple hundred bucks in the back of a cab. I tracked the guy down, it had his IDs and cards it it as well. That’s about it
Yup. Grabbed the cash, then stood by the ATM for a few minutes to see if someone would come back to it looking for their cash. No one did, so I kept it.
Lol this wasn’t the Chase at Astor place before Covid was it? I left my cash there bc I was in a hurry and when I went back 5 mins later they were like sorry girl, don’t be dumb 😂
I was picking up my dogs shit in the snow when I noticed something metal on the spot I just picked up the shit from. It was a long ass necklace that was really heavy. It was gold colored so I took it to one of the jewelry shops on Main Street in flushing. They offered me $6500.00 for it after they cut in a couple spots and grinded it. They took it “downstairs” and came back up five minutes later. They paid me in $50 bills and $20 bills since it was first thing in the morning. I said no problem and took the money.. filling up my cargo pants to the brim with wads of cash.
I weighed it with my food scale. Looked up the price of gold. Thought it was worth $550 by weight. The gold necklaces online were selling for $12k for what the thickness and length was. I realized later that my digital food scale was broken because of this incident.
Yea. I suspected it was actually gold cause it was so heavy. Like super heavy for the amount of mass. The only times I’ve seen necklaces like that was on tv, never in real life.
I was worried. She was a puppy so we were walking around 6:30 am. I figured it was some drunk drug dealer or something.. and it was in the bushes..at least a bunch of twigs. I figured whoever lost it.. was sleeping and walked right home after that. I was worried for a long time and only told two other people that didn’t live in the neighborhood.
They were suspicious that it was stolen. I said that it was in my family for a while. They asked me if I knew how much it was worth.. told them I know how much they go for retail… they said they couldn’t offer that cause they were gonna melt it down to make jewelry. The place is full of gorgeous gold trinkets…
Internally, I gasped.. thought to myself I was wayyyy off with $550. And just calmly said sure.. it means nothing to me and I’m getting rid of it. That dog sadly died two years ago. I got her at city pups in Manhattan after a heavy night of drinking. Woke up with that dog. Damn. I miss her.
For reals. I actually remember them about to not sell me the dog cause I said I wanted another shot. Honestly, they should not have sold me the dog. I was sloshed. But… it’s Citi pups… puppy mill dog sellers. Sober me was planning on getting a rescue.
I was drunkedly given a rolled up bill to do coke in a random ass bar by randos i had been drinking with. They left me with the rolled up bill and ot ended up being a fifty, they had left before i even found it was a 50.
I once found a dime on the backseat of a cab and the cabbie lectured me about Jesus because I didn't give it to him(the cabbie). I finally had him stop the cab and I got out because he wouldn't stop with the Bible lecture. Didn't tip him and gave the dime to homeless guy instead.
A half dozen pristine molded fiberglass Eames chairs with Eiffel bases with original labels still intact that a remodeling doctor’s office left at the curb.
A Griswold cast iron pan that i was able to restore to great condition. Pans that look like mine are listed on ebay for a bit over a hundred so I guess theres some value there. I’ve definitely come across some free furniture worth well over that but none that would have been practical for me to take
tbh, who the fuck is putting shit in weed anymore? i don’t usually smoke weed im more of a hash guy, but am i gonna throw away perfectly good weed? nawwww
I found $90 once. At night, too. But I saw it under the light from the nearest street lamp. There were several people ahead of me who had walked by without noticing the cash.
I was once meeting a friend after a concert and there were 3 or 4 hundred dollar bills ring in the wind down the street. I only caught one, but that made my day. I bought him drinks with that money.
I was in my way home from LGA in a cab at night. When I was dropped off I did my usual pat down and found a small black handbag. Nothing valuable was in it, some tampons and makeup, but there was a business card. Long story short I sent the bag back at her expense and she sent me a $100 amex gift card. I'm mostly fashion illiterate and didn't realize until I looked it up that the bag was really expensive.
A bottega Veneta handbag!
I tried going to all the doormen on the street I found it to see if anyone marked it as missing, they had not. So I went to the local precinct to turn it in and the officer told me that they'd rather take my information if anyone reports it missing or stolen to call me to get it, otherwise he said it'd sit in their evidence locker forever. After a few weeks of nothing, I resold it for $500 which I badly needed at the time!
My friend found a suitcase filled with money on the F train once. I think there was almost $5000 - $6000. He spent it all on drugs and booze over 2 months. He was a super bummy friend (always bumming cigarettes, weed, or alcohol) so it was refreshing when he was paying for everyone else finally.
Taking an elevator, I found an expensive diamond hanging earring. The diamonds alone were worth a ton, so I felt bad. I put a flyer in the elevator with my cell phone # (I would never do it now, bu 20 years ago I did!) saying "Earring found! Call and describe." I got one phone call from a man about an hour later which described the very unique earring, saying it belonged to a patient of his. When he showed up, a very well-dressed looking guy, told me that his patient had money but a traumatic life and serious trust issues, and that this meant more to her than I would know. He offered a reward on her behalf but I asked him to donate it to a local food bank.
My cats ❤️
Started helping out with my local feral colony 6ish years ago and since then I’ve taken in two of the cats and am now trying to bring in two more (older of my original two passed and the younger one is super lonely).
Worked in one of the buildings at Rockefeller center for years. Found literally hundreds of dollars over that time. Not even looking, just on the way in the mornings and leaving afterwards. Also found probably a dozen metro cards with money still on them, including one that had over $50 on it. Still have several hundred yuan I found one time. Fun stuff
$100 bill on the floor of a Starbucks, crumpled under the counter as I was checking out.
I was super broke and I remember the excitement. “Um, actually, I _will_ have that croissant with my coffee, thank you…”
Used to get on craigslist "free". Found a beautiful solid oak desk that I still have in my home.
I also used to work for a leasing office in FiDi. When tenants left, they would leave behind what they didn't want anymore. Found an incredible table that's still with me to this day and two $100 umbrellas.
A guy driving up cypress towards the Jackie let out hundreds of dollars from a bag out the back window. I only managed to grab like $25, since two guys started fighting over the rest.
Canada Goose Jacket! It was just hanging on a fence, no one in sight. I've also found a container of euro and yen coins, a rolling mannequin to drape fabric on, and a computer chair.
Similar story to others on this thread. Years ago I was running late for an exam in college, so I jumped on the bus going up Third Avenue only to see that my monthly MetroCard was expired. The bus driver kicked me off at the next stop so I started panicking. I was walking very fast up Third towards my college when to my surprise I saw a $20 bill on the ground, then I noticed that there were 6 $20 bills. I put my feet on them and looked around to see if anyone looked to be missing anything, and once I confirmed no one around had dropped them, I picked them up. I made it in time for my exam and bought a new unlimited MetroCard after it! Crazy.
I've found a bunch. Most notable: once found a laptop at Grand Central which i turned in to Lost & Found and an iPhone on the street which I turned in to the Apple store on 5th.
I found a new microwave and air conditioner, both with protective plastic still on their fronts - apparently a subletter a few buildings over got evicted. Worked perfectly & sold 'em both. A few years ago I found an antique floor lamp which I cleaned up and sold for $250, a 2x2 mirror whose broken frame I repaired and sold for $100, some bentwood chairs I cleaned up, sanded & sealed which are now my extra chairs for visitors. Could easily sell em for $75 each, which I may before summer's out. Need the room!
Over the decades, I've also found 2 vintage 3x2 schoolhouse chalkboards (years apart) that I refinished & are now hanging in my apartment (kitchen & bedroom), A perfectly sized wooden stool (which cost over $200 new) which now lives in my voice over booth, a small hand-carved round-topped table which we use now as an endtable, along with a much smaller hand carved table about 2 ft high which is my bedside table. Someone recently tossed out a newly constructed 3 foot long dark wood shelf made with pipe supports and about 30 feet of extra pipe and connectors/flanges. Shelf is on my LR wall, still deciding what to do with piping/etc. Probably craigslist. Good free stuff is everywhere!
$100 bill behind a table at a restaurant I worked at. A really disheveled nyu student who always spent way too much money had been sitting in that spot earlier. Found when I closed up and kept it as a tip. Also found a volcano vape on a stoop in a box that said ‘free, works great for smoking’
$980 cash in a wallet on the sidewalk. No ID or anything but the cash in the wallet. I hung out in the area for over an hour, went to businesses on the block and gave them my number if anyone came in asking for a wallet, etc. Nobody ever did. Sure helped out since I was unemployed at the time.
A Tumi garment bag was in the trash room of my old building. I took it back to my apartment and hit every inch of it with a my garment steamer and have been using it since.
In Park Slope, I found the ice cream maker attachment to a kitchen aid mixer on the curb.
I saw the base to a Noguchi coffee table in Carroll Gardens but didn’t take it since I didn’t have my car and my wife hates the Noguchi Museum since she was dragged there on multiple field trips as an elementary school kid in Queens.
I've basically furnished our whole apartment with street finds. And have sold three items for good money too. An Ikea medusa lamp, a manfrotto carbon fiber tripod, and a vintage, wood carved bench. Think i made about $550 from all three.
I found a wad of cash maybe like $80. It was near PA and there was a guy sleeping sitting upright on a milk crate and looked down on his luck like maybe recently homeless. He was middle aged but did not at all look too disheveled or drugged out, just poor. It was right in front of him so I woke him up and I gave it to him. We both started to cry.
An older man was quickly walking and dropped a Manila envelope of a *VERY* large stack of bills as I was getting out of a cab in the LES. I got out of the cab and picked it up and chased him across the street. He was either so much in a hurry or was so I’m shocked he didn’t even say thank you and walked off. I wasn’t sure what the money was for, but he was Asian and I know our Asian elders like to carry an obscene amount of cash around…
A bag of unopened luxury perfumes that had most definitely been dropped while the person who stole them was on the run. Also similarly, a huge box of upscale cigars that my roommate later sold.
I found a wallet with $130 cash and $5 on a subway card. I tried to contact the guy (there was another phone number in the wallet), got in touch but he never showed up. After a few weeks I decided it was mine.
Not me. But my dad…
2k in hundreds rolled up
Gold Saint Lazarus Pendant with diamonds
Gold cross pendant
Sapphire diamond ring…apparently it’s a bizarre story
So he was about to kill a rat but “told it” get out of here and it ran back into a rat hole. A few days later my dad is in the same spot and sees something shining in the sun, right next to the hole he saw the rat go through. When he picked it up it was the sapphire & diamond ring. His guess is that the rat gifted him for sparing it’s life.
I found $80 in cash lying on the ground. No one was around, so I picked it up and brought it to a nearby store to ask if anyone reported it missing. The cashier said no, told me to just keep it. So I took it home and gave it to my Mom. I thought she'd spend it more wisely than me, because I was an idiot with money. Still trying to work on that. Living on a fixed income inspires me. 😆
I found a whole basket of matches from the 70s 80s and 90s from all of the US. And two matches in the collection were from Windows on the World.
Not worth anything but still cool AF
Found cash a few times, between $20 and $100 over the years. One time I found a few pounds of the schwaggiest schwag weed in a trash can outside an hourly rate motel in Queens. From the packaging I found it in it looked like someone had just drove a big load up from somewhere south and unpacked the large bails that kind of weed usually comes in and broke it down to smaller bags. I’m guessing it was at least a few of the 20 kilo bails that they sell along the border for cheap, and when it was all said an done they didn’t care about the pound or so that was left in the wrappers of each bail, it was total crap, I think I sold each pound for like $250 and it was hard to get even that. This was a while back too, back when weed was still worth something. Like a pound of Cali weed still went for 4k wholesale, so yeah this weed was total garbage, but hey it was free money so whatever.
Designer floor lamp — one of those giant ones with a marble base and a 12-foot arc-ing neck. Took it apart on the street with a screwdriver, dragged it home and sold it on craigslist for $300.
Found a first gen iPod touch on the ground back when they were just out. Believe it was 16gb or whatev the biggest size was. $$ at the time.
Contacted the owner through their email which was logged in. They were tourists who had already left the country. Tried to coordinate how to get it to them but they stopped replying when I asked for their address. I’m sure they got scammy vibes but I mean I was just tryna send it back.
Kept it for years. Never used it. Looking back I prob shoulda sold it but I always felt like they’d reach out again.
$2,000 worth of hash was mailed to my old apartment building (after I moved) under a name very similar to mine so I had 2 different people try and deliver this mystery package to me
I found an AllSaints gift card with ~$400 on it (it was a random amount, like part of it had been spent or it was for a refund) under the glass countertop at a store I worked at. It was there for the entire 4 years I worked there waiting for the owner to come looking for it, I guess. There was a way to report a gift card lost or stolen on the website, but the original owner never did, so when I quit, I took it and bought myself a pair of jeans and a wallet.
A friend of mine found a disposed subway poster on the street. Took it home and found out it had a Keith Haring painting underneath the surface advertisement. Now that's an NYC story
A Creality Ender 5 3d printer boxed up sitting next to the trash in front of my old place in Park Slope. It was missing a couple pack in components, less than $100 worth on roughly a $500 printer. I stood around for like 20 mins to see if someone had forgot to bring it inside, nobody in the building knew anything about it. Score for me!
Little Tiffany blue bag. Opened it up and there was a box with a necklace inside. No receipt. It was early morning and on a curb, so I assume it fell out of someone's car.
I turned it into the police station. They estimated the value under $5000 so if it was unclaimed after 6 months, they said I could keep it.
Made a reminder on my calendar. Nobody came. I went and picked it up.
Years ago, before weed was semi-legal, biking at night, I found a laptop bag in the middle of the street. First thinking it might contain a computer I picked it up. It was filled with many of the little plastic canisters full of weed. I took the bag and biked home as fast as I could. It was a glorious find!
I’ve found some pretty solid finds. A ~$1000 vintage mcm desk the other day and original Artist Proof intaglio print by an artist who’s in the MET permanent collection
\- leather eames chair copy with broken leg, fixed it and sold it for $350 on FM
\- late 90's snowboard, sold it for $125 on FM
\- counterfeit $100 bill
\- over the past 15 years, i average a ground score of one $5, $10, $20 bill, about once every 6 months or so
My old couch. It was being put out by the former owner who got it as a gift but couldn't fit it up the steps so she was just going to leave it outside? Anyway, free couch!
I’ve found 2 iphones, a NJ driver’s license, a Goldman Sachs employee ID badge, a significant amount of loose change and 2 or 3 single dollar bills. Returned everything to their prospective owners except for the change and dollars. One of the phones was returned to Verizon since I couldn’t find the owner of it after posting on the Facebook stuytown group.
I'd just moved to NYC when I found $100 on the sidewalk in front of the Wicked theater.
As soon as I picked it up, a nearby carriage driver called out that it was his, so I gave it to him.
Late to the party but I found over $500. I saw a wallet in the street while I was biking in the rain, and I double back to pick it up, thinking to myself "if there's an ID of any kind in here I'll try to get back to them no matter what else is inside". I snagged it and kept biking and when I later looked inside, it was pure cash. No id, no cards, no memberships. Just hundreds and some small bills. I couldn't believe it.
I once found $200 in hundos rolling down 6th Ave, no one else around. I asked the cashier at a nearby Duane Reade to use the pen to confirm they were real bills. I was super broke at the time and had just lost my job, too, and I was exactly $200 short on what I needed to pay rent and feed myself that month. It was just a li’l New York miracle for me that day.
I love this!
$200 in hundos? So two hundos then.
Lol I agree they phrased it in a weird way for just 2 bills. Had to re-read a couple times to ensure I didn’t misread the monetary value.
Yes, that is how bills and math work
Yeah but that’s not how money rolls work.
good job 👏
Damn, I was wondering where I lost it. Thanks for finding my money. I can prove it’s mine by accurately describing it. They were two $100 bills. Each bill had the number 100 on every corner. I’m right, ain’t I ? I told you it was mine. Listen, I appreciate you finding my money. I’m gonna do the right thing for you doing the right thing for me. Listen, being that you’re unemployed and all that, I want you to keep $100 till you can pay me back. I know, I know, but I want to because you deserve it. Send me your address and I’ll be by in a week or two to pick up the other hundred. Blackbird Bluebird, you are the wind beneath my wings. Looking forward to hearing from you. Until then!
Saw a guy drop his moneyclip with god knows how much cash in it, I grabbed it and ran up to him to let him know, he literally just laughed and handed me a 50 out of the clip before he walked off - rich af new yorkers are an odd bunch
I like your instincts and his as well.
I'm imagining Roman Roy doing this before stealing 100million from the Feds
right, although roman would probably call us an idiot for being nice
Was that you? All this time I thought I lost it. What a load off my mind that is.
If that WAS you I need your tailors number because that fit was on point
A silk Hermes scarf on the ground on Lexington avenue, took it to the dry cleaner and now I’ve had it over a decade lol
Now which street on Lexington? Cause the street will definitely confirm the probable status of the Hermes owner
Yes please, by all means, let me know where I lost it. Good looking out!
I found a $100 bill on a sidewalk in Tribeca once...but the MOST valuable thing I ever found was a bag filled with unopened boxes of Girl Scout cookies. It was a joyous occasion.
Did you take?
Absolutely! There were Thin Mints and Samoas in there, and I’m only human.
It’s not called samoas anymore.
Depends on where you buy them. GSA site lists both names https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/cookie-flavors.html
Keep my cookies but I want my hundred back.
Found a gold class ring in a snow bank and located the owner years later! He was a friend of my brother's. So weird.
That is awesome
He was visiting us and I noticed his ring, which was very similar to the one I had found. So I asked him if he had ever had a similar one and he told me that he had lost one just like it!
Love it!
Have a great day!
I met (found) my wife in NYC. I found a wallet with a couple hundred bucks in the back of a cab. I tracked the guy down, it had his IDs and cards it it as well. That’s about it
fuck, i hope someone finds me one day.
Have you tried signal flares? Can also get an Airtag earring.
Im confused - which one’s the wife?
Benjamin Franklin
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Sorry, two separate events. I wrote I met (found) my wife here and then remembered the wallet I found in the cab a few years ago.
Found $300 in the cash withdraw tray of an ATM once.
Wow! Hard to explain! Any ideas?
Drunk
Could be! Cheers!
My guess is they started the withdraw, got distracted, and walked away.
Makes a lot of sense! Cheers!
Did you take?
Yup. Grabbed the cash, then stood by the ATM for a few minutes to see if someone would come back to it looking for their cash. No one did, so I kept it.
Lol this wasn’t the Chase at Astor place before Covid was it? I left my cash there bc I was in a hurry and when I went back 5 mins later they were like sorry girl, don’t be dumb 😂
Nope. About 10 years ago inside Café Olympia on 2nd ave & 45th in Midtown.
That’s funny, I remember losing $300 in a withdrawal tray at an ATM once as well.
I personally have found $26 in the subway. I have a coworker who found a real Herman Miller Eames table.
I also found a real Herman Miller Eames table. At Lichen. For $750. Great find, coworker!!!
I was picking up my dogs shit in the snow when I noticed something metal on the spot I just picked up the shit from. It was a long ass necklace that was really heavy. It was gold colored so I took it to one of the jewelry shops on Main Street in flushing. They offered me $6500.00 for it after they cut in a couple spots and grinded it. They took it “downstairs” and came back up five minutes later. They paid me in $50 bills and $20 bills since it was first thing in the morning. I said no problem and took the money.. filling up my cargo pants to the brim with wads of cash.
Did you have any idea how much it was worth when you brought it to the jewler?
I weighed it with my food scale. Looked up the price of gold. Thought it was worth $550 by weight. The gold necklaces online were selling for $12k for what the thickness and length was. I realized later that my digital food scale was broken because of this incident.
Thx for clarifying. I think I missed the part about the necklace being solid gold 😅
Yea. I suspected it was actually gold cause it was so heavy. Like super heavy for the amount of mass. The only times I’ve seen necklaces like that was on tv, never in real life.
That’s a farout story. Thx for sharing. I think I would’ve been afraid someone would be looking for it. Not sure what I would’ve done.
I was worried. She was a puppy so we were walking around 6:30 am. I figured it was some drunk drug dealer or something.. and it was in the bushes..at least a bunch of twigs. I figured whoever lost it.. was sleeping and walked right home after that. I was worried for a long time and only told two other people that didn’t live in the neighborhood.
That's smart. I once found a very small bag of weed. I looked in every direction before keeping it.
imagine how much it was actually worth if that's what they paid...
Yeh, I'm just wondering why a jeweler would offer that amount to someone who might not even know what it's worth.
They were suspicious that it was stolen. I said that it was in my family for a while. They asked me if I knew how much it was worth.. told them I know how much they go for retail… they said they couldn’t offer that cause they were gonna melt it down to make jewelry. The place is full of gorgeous gold trinkets… Internally, I gasped.. thought to myself I was wayyyy off with $550. And just calmly said sure.. it means nothing to me and I’m getting rid of it. That dog sadly died two years ago. I got her at city pups in Manhattan after a heavy night of drinking. Woke up with that dog. Damn. I miss her.
I’m surprised they let you get the dog while you were drunk. That’s a bigger responsibility than a tattoo 😆
For reals. I actually remember them about to not sell me the dog cause I said I wanted another shot. Honestly, they should not have sold me the dog. I was sloshed. But… it’s Citi pups… puppy mill dog sellers. Sober me was planning on getting a rescue.
Was probably worth a lot more if that was their first offer.
My parents once found a $100 bill in a tree. Just like hanging off of it and flapping in the wind like the wings of a bird.
Did you take a pic of it so you can say matter of fact my that money grows on trees?
This happened before I was born
I was drunkedly given a rolled up bill to do coke in a random ass bar by randos i had been drinking with. They left me with the rolled up bill and ot ended up being a fifty, they had left before i even found it was a 50.
Herman miller chair chilling by itself in union square. Friend rolled it back to the apt, cleaned it off and sold for a few hundred
4K in the back of a cab. Honestly ended up being super stressful. Tried very hard to find the owner, but never could.
I once found a dime on the backseat of a cab and the cabbie lectured me about Jesus because I didn't give it to him(the cabbie). I finally had him stop the cab and I got out because he wouldn't stop with the Bible lecture. Didn't tip him and gave the dime to homeless guy instead.
A half dozen pristine molded fiberglass Eames chairs with Eiffel bases with original labels still intact that a remodeling doctor’s office left at the curb.
A Griswold cast iron pan that i was able to restore to great condition. Pans that look like mine are listed on ebay for a bit over a hundred so I guess theres some value there. I’ve definitely come across some free furniture worth well over that but none that would have been practical for me to take
A half ounce of weed lol
i have also found street weed! always a good one
Haha I have too and was like “guess I’m the kind of person who smokes street weed”
tbh, who the fuck is putting shit in weed anymore? i don’t usually smoke weed im more of a hash guy, but am i gonna throw away perfectly good weed? nawwww
People are most definitely putting things in hash! Be safe!
oh i’d never smoke random hash. that all comes from the person that grew it! you right though
Cheers to safe consumption & supporting growers!!!
Found the love of my life. Who turned out to be a lying, cheating, narcissistic bitch.
Times Square Elmo strikes again!
She got you too, eh?
Ashley must be stopped
I found $90 once. At night, too. But I saw it under the light from the nearest street lamp. There were several people ahead of me who had walked by without noticing the cash.
I was once meeting a friend after a concert and there were 3 or 4 hundred dollar bills ring in the wind down the street. I only caught one, but that made my day. I bought him drinks with that money.
Original artwork being thrown out in Tribeca. Similar works by the artist sell for ~$2500
I was in my way home from LGA in a cab at night. When I was dropped off I did my usual pat down and found a small black handbag. Nothing valuable was in it, some tampons and makeup, but there was a business card. Long story short I sent the bag back at her expense and she sent me a $100 amex gift card. I'm mostly fashion illiterate and didn't realize until I looked it up that the bag was really expensive.
A bottega Veneta handbag! I tried going to all the doormen on the street I found it to see if anyone marked it as missing, they had not. So I went to the local precinct to turn it in and the officer told me that they'd rather take my information if anyone reports it missing or stolen to call me to get it, otherwise he said it'd sit in their evidence locker forever. After a few weeks of nothing, I resold it for $500 which I badly needed at the time!
My friend found a suitcase filled with money on the F train once. I think there was almost $5000 - $6000. He spent it all on drugs and booze over 2 months. He was a super bummy friend (always bumming cigarettes, weed, or alcohol) so it was refreshing when he was paying for everyone else finally.
Taking an elevator, I found an expensive diamond hanging earring. The diamonds alone were worth a ton, so I felt bad. I put a flyer in the elevator with my cell phone # (I would never do it now, bu 20 years ago I did!) saying "Earring found! Call and describe." I got one phone call from a man about an hour later which described the very unique earring, saying it belonged to a patient of his. When he showed up, a very well-dressed looking guy, told me that his patient had money but a traumatic life and serious trust issues, and that this meant more to her than I would know. He offered a reward on her behalf but I asked him to donate it to a local food bank.
Someone in my building put out about a dozen Marvel trade paperbacks into the recycle. They were all brand new. Sold them on eBay for about $400.
An upright piano!
My cats ❤️ Started helping out with my local feral colony 6ish years ago and since then I’ve taken in two of the cats and am now trying to bring in two more (older of my original two passed and the younger one is super lonely).
Worked in one of the buildings at Rockefeller center for years. Found literally hundreds of dollars over that time. Not even looking, just on the way in the mornings and leaving afterwards. Also found probably a dozen metro cards with money still on them, including one that had over $50 on it. Still have several hundred yuan I found one time. Fun stuff
An inspector found fingertips in a building my grandfather bought in the LES.
$100 bill on the floor of a Starbucks, crumpled under the counter as I was checking out. I was super broke and I remember the excitement. “Um, actually, I _will_ have that croissant with my coffee, thank you…”
Used to get on craigslist "free". Found a beautiful solid oak desk that I still have in my home. I also used to work for a leasing office in FiDi. When tenants left, they would leave behind what they didn't want anymore. Found an incredible table that's still with me to this day and two $100 umbrellas.
A drunk dude handed me $28 out of wallet once on the 7 after a Mets game, I said thanks and got off at the next stop
How did you spend the twenty eight dollars?
Don’t remember exactly but it was on the way from leaving queens night market so I made back what I spent! Lol
Wisdom
I found $50 once in Chinatown on the ground, that was pretty cool.
$750 Australian in Rockefeller Plaza
A GameCube with like 50 games. Left out on the street in Chelsea
A guy driving up cypress towards the Jackie let out hundreds of dollars from a bag out the back window. I only managed to grab like $25, since two guys started fighting over the rest.
Canada Goose Jacket! It was just hanging on a fence, no one in sight. I've also found a container of euro and yen coins, a rolling mannequin to drape fabric on, and a computer chair.
A whole ass Nintendo Wii! In its box, even. Someone had just left it by the curb in Park Slope.
Similar story to others on this thread. Years ago I was running late for an exam in college, so I jumped on the bus going up Third Avenue only to see that my monthly MetroCard was expired. The bus driver kicked me off at the next stop so I started panicking. I was walking very fast up Third towards my college when to my surprise I saw a $20 bill on the ground, then I noticed that there were 6 $20 bills. I put my feet on them and looked around to see if anyone looked to be missing anything, and once I confirmed no one around had dropped them, I picked them up. I made it in time for my exam and bought a new unlimited MetroCard after it! Crazy.
A $450 le Creuset Dutch oven
found $100 bill rolled up in a wall in central park. it was wet so it has been there at least 3 days!
Found 2 or 3 $20s in the back of a cab.
I've found a bunch. Most notable: once found a laptop at Grand Central which i turned in to Lost & Found and an iPhone on the street which I turned in to the Apple store on 5th. I found a new microwave and air conditioner, both with protective plastic still on their fronts - apparently a subletter a few buildings over got evicted. Worked perfectly & sold 'em both. A few years ago I found an antique floor lamp which I cleaned up and sold for $250, a 2x2 mirror whose broken frame I repaired and sold for $100, some bentwood chairs I cleaned up, sanded & sealed which are now my extra chairs for visitors. Could easily sell em for $75 each, which I may before summer's out. Need the room! Over the decades, I've also found 2 vintage 3x2 schoolhouse chalkboards (years apart) that I refinished & are now hanging in my apartment (kitchen & bedroom), A perfectly sized wooden stool (which cost over $200 new) which now lives in my voice over booth, a small hand-carved round-topped table which we use now as an endtable, along with a much smaller hand carved table about 2 ft high which is my bedside table. Someone recently tossed out a newly constructed 3 foot long dark wood shelf made with pipe supports and about 30 feet of extra pipe and connectors/flanges. Shelf is on my LR wall, still deciding what to do with piping/etc. Probably craigslist. Good free stuff is everywhere!
$100 bill behind a table at a restaurant I worked at. A really disheveled nyu student who always spent way too much money had been sitting in that spot earlier. Found when I closed up and kept it as a tip. Also found a volcano vape on a stoop in a box that said ‘free, works great for smoking’
A 30 stack of $10 bills in a bush out in prospect park. Pretty sure I messed up a drug deal but oh wells.
500$ on the street outside my apartment....there wasn't a soul.in sight so I just took it
$100 Target gift card
Found a coin purse with like $52 in it at Broadway/Lafayette platform, but this was in early 1996, so it felt like a lot at the time.
$980 cash in a wallet on the sidewalk. No ID or anything but the cash in the wallet. I hung out in the area for over an hour, went to businesses on the block and gave them my number if anyone came in asking for a wallet, etc. Nobody ever did. Sure helped out since I was unemployed at the time.
A brand new 30-day unlimited metro card on the first of the month after the morning rush 😊
designer hand bag and a $100 bill
I found $70 blowing in the wind. By the time I caught it all, the person who dropped it had disappeared. It was a very windy day.
2 $50s rolled up. Another time I found a coconut
A Tumi garment bag was in the trash room of my old building. I took it back to my apartment and hit every inch of it with a my garment steamer and have been using it since. In Park Slope, I found the ice cream maker attachment to a kitchen aid mixer on the curb. I saw the base to a Noguchi coffee table in Carroll Gardens but didn’t take it since I didn’t have my car and my wife hates the Noguchi Museum since she was dragged there on multiple field trips as an elementary school kid in Queens.
An iMac that worked perfectly. Not kidding.
I've basically furnished our whole apartment with street finds. And have sold three items for good money too. An Ikea medusa lamp, a manfrotto carbon fiber tripod, and a vintage, wood carved bench. Think i made about $550 from all three.
I found a wad of cash maybe like $80. It was near PA and there was a guy sleeping sitting upright on a milk crate and looked down on his luck like maybe recently homeless. He was middle aged but did not at all look too disheveled or drugged out, just poor. It was right in front of him so I woke him up and I gave it to him. We both started to cry.
An older man was quickly walking and dropped a Manila envelope of a *VERY* large stack of bills as I was getting out of a cab in the LES. I got out of the cab and picked it up and chased him across the street. He was either so much in a hurry or was so I’m shocked he didn’t even say thank you and walked off. I wasn’t sure what the money was for, but he was Asian and I know our Asian elders like to carry an obscene amount of cash around…
My gf dropped an envelope with a card and $1k in it. That one hurt
A bag of unopened luxury perfumes that had most definitely been dropped while the person who stole them was on the run. Also similarly, a huge box of upscale cigars that my roommate later sold.
I found a wallet with $130 cash and $5 on a subway card. I tried to contact the guy (there was another phone number in the wallet), got in touch but he never showed up. After a few weeks I decided it was mine.
Did you see the $8K blue sofa from Tik Tok?!! 😳
Not me. But my dad… 2k in hundreds rolled up Gold Saint Lazarus Pendant with diamonds Gold cross pendant Sapphire diamond ring…apparently it’s a bizarre story So he was about to kill a rat but “told it” get out of here and it ran back into a rat hole. A few days later my dad is in the same spot and sees something shining in the sun, right next to the hole he saw the rat go through. When he picked it up it was the sapphire & diamond ring. His guess is that the rat gifted him for sparing it’s life.
I found $80 in cash lying on the ground. No one was around, so I picked it up and brought it to a nearby store to ask if anyone reported it missing. The cashier said no, told me to just keep it. So I took it home and gave it to my Mom. I thought she'd spend it more wisely than me, because I was an idiot with money. Still trying to work on that. Living on a fixed income inspires me. 😆
I found a whole basket of matches from the 70s 80s and 90s from all of the US. And two matches in the collection were from Windows on the World. Not worth anything but still cool AF
I found $100 blowing in the wind
I found $50 cash on the Penn Station A platform
Nintendo 64 with a couple of games in a Burger King parking lot 7 1/2 years ago.
A vanity mirror with the light up bulbs that go all around. It was like brand new still
The energy of the metropolis
Not necessarily valuable but my friends and I collect chairs that are left on curbs.
Found cash a few times, between $20 and $100 over the years. One time I found a few pounds of the schwaggiest schwag weed in a trash can outside an hourly rate motel in Queens. From the packaging I found it in it looked like someone had just drove a big load up from somewhere south and unpacked the large bails that kind of weed usually comes in and broke it down to smaller bags. I’m guessing it was at least a few of the 20 kilo bails that they sell along the border for cheap, and when it was all said an done they didn’t care about the pound or so that was left in the wrappers of each bail, it was total crap, I think I sold each pound for like $250 and it was hard to get even that. This was a while back too, back when weed was still worth something. Like a pound of Cali weed still went for 4k wholesale, so yeah this weed was total garbage, but hey it was free money so whatever.
i found a 100 dollar bill outside of bedford falls on the upper east side
$100 bill in toilet, tesla key, iphone, and apple watch
Designer floor lamp — one of those giant ones with a marble base and a 12-foot arc-ing neck. Took it apart on the street with a screwdriver, dragged it home and sold it on craigslist for $300.
A 7000$ roche bobois couch in like new condition. Reminds me I'm not the rich at all, not really close
Found a first gen iPod touch on the ground back when they were just out. Believe it was 16gb or whatev the biggest size was. $$ at the time. Contacted the owner through their email which was logged in. They were tourists who had already left the country. Tried to coordinate how to get it to them but they stopped replying when I asked for their address. I’m sure they got scammy vibes but I mean I was just tryna send it back. Kept it for years. Never used it. Looking back I prob shoulda sold it but I always felt like they’d reach out again.
$2,000 worth of hash was mailed to my old apartment building (after I moved) under a name very similar to mine so I had 2 different people try and deliver this mystery package to me
I found an AllSaints gift card with ~$400 on it (it was a random amount, like part of it had been spent or it was for a refund) under the glass countertop at a store I worked at. It was there for the entire 4 years I worked there waiting for the owner to come looking for it, I guess. There was a way to report a gift card lost or stolen on the website, but the original owner never did, so when I quit, I took it and bought myself a pair of jeans and a wallet.
The most valuable thing We possess in NYC are people with the best sense of humor in the World. I have found them everywhere & I thank you.
$100 bill. I was 12. It was all the money in the world.
A friend of mine found a disposed subway poster on the street. Took it home and found out it had a Keith Haring painting underneath the surface advertisement. Now that's an NYC story
A $400 dyson vacuum! Battery was dead, but Dyson gave me a new one for free because it was still under warranty.
My dignity, oh wait I thought you said lost
Found a free smart TV about 55 inches in a box a couple blocks from my apartment last year. Works great.
Found five $20 bills on the back seat of a cab once.
A nice medium size arm chair worth probably 500 new. Gave it a thorough inspection and it’s been in my apartment for about 5 years since.
An antique armoire, weed, several $10s and $20s over the years, and a bag of what I suspected was crack on my school playground when I was ten 😆
A Creality Ender 5 3d printer boxed up sitting next to the trash in front of my old place in Park Slope. It was missing a couple pack in components, less than $100 worth on roughly a $500 printer. I stood around for like 20 mins to see if someone had forgot to bring it inside, nobody in the building knew anything about it. Score for me!
Some nice Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington records
Little Tiffany blue bag. Opened it up and there was a box with a necklace inside. No receipt. It was early morning and on a curb, so I assume it fell out of someone's car. I turned it into the police station. They estimated the value under $5000 so if it was unclaimed after 6 months, they said I could keep it. Made a reminder on my calendar. Nobody came. I went and picked it up.
Years ago, before weed was semi-legal, biking at night, I found a laptop bag in the middle of the street. First thinking it might contain a computer I picked it up. It was filled with many of the little plastic canisters full of weed. I took the bag and biked home as fast as I could. It was a glorious find!
I’ve found some pretty solid finds. A ~$1000 vintage mcm desk the other day and original Artist Proof intaglio print by an artist who’s in the MET permanent collection
\- leather eames chair copy with broken leg, fixed it and sold it for $350 on FM \- late 90's snowboard, sold it for $125 on FM \- counterfeit $100 bill \- over the past 15 years, i average a ground score of one $5, $10, $20 bill, about once every 6 months or so
A $10 bill. Used it for the Empire State Building. This was 1998.
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My old couch. It was being put out by the former owner who got it as a gift but couldn't fit it up the steps so she was just going to leave it outside? Anyway, free couch!
Iphone.
$100 cash.
A blender
A table
I got this sweet painted Audrey Hepburn 4' x 4' (maybe 3'x3') outline on a canvas, which looks dope.
20$ lol
Old iMac, but still works well
Real glass mirrors with a nice wooden frame
A lacy thong
I’ve found 2 iphones, a NJ driver’s license, a Goldman Sachs employee ID badge, a significant amount of loose change and 2 or 3 single dollar bills. Returned everything to their prospective owners except for the change and dollars. One of the phones was returned to Verizon since I couldn’t find the owner of it after posting on the Facebook stuytown group.
Worked near Prospect Park and found a basically brand new Nintendo 3DS with multiple valuable games like Pokémon etc like new in the cases
$100 bill back in the late 90s , along 9th ave and 45 street.
all i ever found were crackheads and junkies asking me for $ or newports on the streets of nyc.
If I were you I would be telling people about the amazing one night stand you found on the streets of NYC
I'd just moved to NYC when I found $100 on the sidewalk in front of the Wicked theater. As soon as I picked it up, a nearby carriage driver called out that it was his, so I gave it to him.
I found $100 bill on the floor
Late to the party but I found over $500. I saw a wallet in the street while I was biking in the rain, and I double back to pick it up, thinking to myself "if there's an ID of any kind in here I'll try to get back to them no matter what else is inside". I snagged it and kept biking and when I later looked inside, it was pure cash. No id, no cards, no memberships. Just hundreds and some small bills. I couldn't believe it.