Gothamist: Just One Word. Plastics.

littlegiantladder

Wed, 03 May 2006 15:12:46 -0500

I know this is a little old, but I came across this post when looking for where to buy a large supply plastic bottles. The selection there is great and the store clerks are very helpful... I'd definately recommend it.

tom

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:41:53 -0500

funny, here I was thinking dogma reference.

Noel Jackson

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:58:04 -0500

I just have to say, the reference to The Graduate is brilliant! One of my favorite movie moments.

jizzbomb

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:08:19 -0500

These places are sooo damn expensive that it's better to go to crate and barrel buy a plexiglass table and cut out the shape you need and it would still be ten times cheaper. I swear to god I found pieces of plexiglass on the street that went for 50 bucks a sheet in the canal street store. RIDICULOUS!!!

pjeacoma

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:03:51 -0500

There's a place called Plastic Land that just moved to Church street a block or two south of Canal that i had make some acryclic shelves i put together and definitley worth a stop in. Was about 1/4 the price of Canal Plastics Center and had a friendly staff that very helpful being that i never purchased chunks of plastic before.

diabolix

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:53:28 -0500

While these places are good, but do not let them cut the material down for you. It generally is more expensive to have a single cut on any size of plastic sheet than the full sheet of plastic costs. Cutting sheet plastic is rather easy with simple plastic scoring knife (looks like a dull hooked knife that you can find in many hardware stores). Just score the plastic a couple of times and bend on score until it breaks. This will not work on Polypropylene (it's specifically made to bend repeatedly without breakage).

diabolix

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:52:13 -0500

rev pays

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:27:01 -0500

They are pretty expensive, same with the foam place and the scrap metal place. I'll either buy on-line or check the home improvement stores. Canal street was always schocky and many places like the above are over priced and that included "the trader"

Jack

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:22:16 -0500

They might be expensive, but they are the last shreds of decency on increasingly schocky Canal Street. When I used to go down there as part of my downtown/village sojours as a kid it was great. There were old electronics store, metal-work places and tons of stuff for people who create or who want to by cheap old stuff. The army surplus back then was amazing! And by 'back then' I mean the 1980s. Now it's mainly a strip filled with bootleg merchants and not much else. Miserable street. I'll shed an acrylic tear if the plastic stores of Canal Street disappear.

jizzbomb

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:13:03 -0500

These places are ridiculously expensive.

sky

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:00:43 -0500

Canal Plastics is great, but I'd like to also recommend Just Plastics, located in upper Manhattan at Dyckman St. Take the A train!

sky

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:59:25 -0500

Canal Plastics is great, but I'd like to also recommend Just Plastics, located in upper Manhattan at Dyckman St. Take the A train!