dry cleaners

jane_birkin

hey all,

i've got a pile of dry cleaning that is slowly growing. anyone wanna give me reviews of the local cleaners? i'm on 23rd and 6th and have noticed several nearby but indecisiveness has prevented me from trying them out.

thanks!

bluebricks

It's a little far from you, but there is a great, old world dry cleaner on 5th avenue between 39 and 40th (or 40th and 41st?) on the Key Food side of 5th. A very competent older couple have been running it for decades, the seamstress is a true professional (I've given her some pretty complicated fitting changes and they've been perfect) and the dry cleaning is always careful. Shirts are $2.50. My experiences with them have been uniformly great, but they don't take credit cards. Get them while they are still there. Brooklyn businesses like this are unfortunately disappearing...

lemur11215

I take all my work clothes to be dry cleaned so this has been my biggest challenge since moving to GWH quite a few years ago.

I really recommend the dry cleaner on Bartel Pritchard Square (next to CT muffin). I don't know the name of the place but they're the best. Always great with cleaning and alterations. They hemmed all my drapes for really cheap when I moved. One day I stopped in to have a coat button reattached that had popped off on my way to the subway. They fixed it in 2 minutes and refused to take money to do it. Unfortunately, they're so far out of the way for me now that I only take stuff there that really needs special attention.

That said, I used the place on 4th and 23rd for quite a while but I got sick of damaged buttons on the blouses almost every time. The last straw, after worse and worse incidents of broken buttons, was with a brand new shirt (worn once). The buttons were unique and on the first cleaning three of the buttons were completely chewed up and destroyed, and only 2 replacements came with the shirt. I have no idea what they were doing to the shirts, but I just couldn't keep going back.

I should say though that I never had any problem with their service on men's shirts. And they are in a convenient spot.

Now I've been using Danny's (?) on 5th between 20th and 21st for about the last year. They're ok except their closing time is unpredictable, I brought home extra clothes that weren't mine once, they lost my clothes once for a few days, you have to watch your bill because their math is wrong more often than it's right, and their english is very limited so special requests are out of the question (unless you speak spanish). No damaged buttons though!