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  800-920-9440; makespace.com

  This start-up is like Seamless but for storing your winter coat. Visit the MakeSpace website to summon a driver to your place, who’ll arrive with sturdy bins (each fits about ten sweaters). The driver will wait outside for 20 minutes while you pack (you can also schedule a pickup for a later date), then haul everything away free of charge to a climate-regulated facility in Jersey City. Store four bins for $25 a month and additional boxes and larger items from $6.25 per piece. As long as one person can carry it, MakeSpace says they can store it (so sofas and dining-room tables are out, but bicycles and skis are in). When it comes time to fetch your clunky A/C unit, the website allows for on-demand delivery ($29) of your goods anywhere in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Jersey City, or Hoboken.

From the 2014 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine