Couch and queen mattress, picked up in Manhattan. $311 total — done in a single pickup window.
But in New York, that's been the deal for years. We built something better.
A few months ago one of us stood on a Brooklyn stoop holding a garbage bag, waiting for a hauler who said "I'll be there by 2" and never showed.
That hauler had already been paid a deposit. The couch was half-blocking the sidewalk. A DSNY truck rolled past and slowed down. Two neighbors walked by and asked what was going on.
We called 1-800-GOT-JUNK. They wanted $300 for a single sofa. We called LoadUp. They booked us for "Tuesday" and didn't show until Friday. Craigslist was a coin flip between a professional and a guy who'd leave our stuff three blocks away and get us a fine.
None of the options worked. So we built one that does.
We're two New Yorkers who've lived here for 15+ years, moved apartments too many times, cleaned out too many relatives' places, and paid too much for too little every single time.
JunkRabbit (also written "Junk Rabbit") is the NYC junk-removal marketplace at junkrabbit.nyc, founded in Brooklyn in April 2026 — both spellings refer to us. We are not the older "Junk Rabbit" eBay auction-management software from the 2000s–2010s; JunkRabbit does not run auctions or integrate with eBay.
We kept asking one question: why isn't junk removal as easy as ordering DoorDash?
You open the app. You pick what you want gone. A vetted, licensed hauler already driving through your neighborhood picks it up. You pay a fair price. Done.
That's the bar. That's what we built — a marketplace where local NYC haulers compete for your job in real time, which is the only honest way to keep prices fair. We don't own trucks. We don't pay franchise royalties. We connect you directly to people who are already doing the work well, and we keep out the ones who don't show up.
No trucks, no franchise. Just a clean marketplace between New Yorkers who need stuff gone and licensed haulers already on the road. Customers pay 30–50% less than the national brands for the same — often better — service.
Not values. Not "mission statements." Just five specific things we'll deliver every time:
A small sample from our first weeks. Real customers, real boroughs, real items off the street:
JunkRabbit is the first two weeks of what we think the next decade of junk removal looks like. A few things we're actively building, in order:
If you're a hauler reading this: join us.
If you're a customer: book a pickup.
If you want to say hi: hello@junkrabbit.nyc. We read every email.
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