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September 11, 2008

Streetlevel: New Dry Cleaner For the Slope

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7th Avenue south of 9th Street continues in its evolution. While the former Tea Lounge space remains shuttered and construction wages on at the wine-bar-to-be, a new dry cleaner has opened on 7th between 9th and 10th Streets. (It's next door to the ever-changing burger bar, half of which was a dry cleaner years ago). Better than a bank or chain store, do you think? Spotless Cleaners — we're not sure if this is related to the Kensington cleaner of the same name — is staffed by friendly Russian ladies, including Roza the "high class tailor." Grand opening specials include a 20% discount for six months.




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Categories: Park Slope, Streetlevel

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How much do you guys pay for men's dress shirt laundered in the Slope??

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at September 11, 2008 2:22 PM

$2.00 for laundry, $5.00 for dry cleaning.

Posted by: Polemicist at September 11, 2008 2:33 PM

I pay over $3.00 in Bed Stuy

I only paid $1.95 in Manhattan

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at September 11, 2008 2:51 PM

Dave, interesting question. In Brooklyn Heights, it's approx. $2 to launder a shirt and $4-$5 for dry cleaning. My cleaner told me I would pay much more if I lived on the Upper East Side to which I replied that I lived there for years and never paid more than $1.50 to have a shirt laundered. I think the cut-throat competition keeps the prices down in Manhattan. I go to a new organic dry cleaner now who is clearly keeping his prices low to get some business, but I suspect he'll raise them soon enough. C'est la vie.

Posted by: Biff Champion at September 11, 2008 3:08 PM

You are correct Biff...my shirts went up to $1.95 just before i left Manhattan. I think its just a matter of lower volumes in Brooklyn because there are actually 2 cleaners on Stuyvesant between me and the five blocks to the subway!!!!

I bet they go up in price when North Korea falls and South has to support it.

Don't everyone jump on me for that it was just a joke.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at September 11, 2008 3:27 PM

$1.50 on PPW, bet 16th and 15th Street...

Posted by: oe at September 11, 2008 3:49 PM

Guys in Brooklyn don't wear dress shirts. So less volume.

That was a joke too!

Posted by: denton at September 11, 2008 3:50 PM

My french cuffs are a big hit in Bed Stuy!!!

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at September 11, 2008 3:59 PM

$1.50 for laundry at East 7th and Cortelyou, same as oe's price nearby. Seems like Kensington/Windsor Terrace is the place to go for these extra perks in life...

Posted by: sixyearsandcounting at September 11, 2008 4:19 PM

Wow, surprised none of the stroller nazi's are bitching about the toxic chemicals that would be released in the air by having a dry cleaners there

Posted by: Xander Crews at September 11, 2008 4:25 PM

wow, not surprised that someone reflexively posted a feeble straw-man attack aimed at "stroller nazi's [sic]" in a thread about park slope.

Posted by: z at September 11, 2008 4:36 PM

Actually wasn't feeble at all, quite the opposite it was spot on.

Posted by: Xander Crews at September 11, 2008 4:57 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/fashion/18slope.html

Posted by: Xander Crews at September 11, 2008 5:03 PM

The organic place I go to that's $1.50 for the laundered dress shirt is on Montague, just west of Hicks, wedged between Heights Cafe and Teresa's restaurant. It's run by a pretty nice guy (yes Korean, Dave) and has a nifty coffee / hot chocolate / tea machine at the front. To increase business, he should consider hiring a guy to stand outside of the store and make people spill their complimentary beverage on their clothes by bumping into them on their way out.

Posted by: Biff Champion at September 11, 2008 5:11 PM

Why would you pay by the shirt? My laundry washes everything and puts shirts and pants on hangers... You're paying all that extra just for the hanger and pressing? If you buy decent no-iron shirts (Brooks Bros. for example), you don't need to iron.

$1.50? or $2.00. Man. That would be only 10-15 shirts for what I pay for a HUGE sack o' clothes.

Crazy rich people don't know how to economize!

Posted by: tybur6 at September 12, 2008 1:22 PM

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