November 4, 2009

Great New Dry Cleaner CH/FG

This is a follow up to our funny/cranky/serious posting yesterday on gentrification. I was carrying on about how few services there have been to date on Fulton Street in Clinton/Washington vicinity. But things are getting better -- they really are -- and I am so happy and grateful to have some services now which seem basic but were non-existant for the first 5 years I lived here. I do a little dance every time I see a wreck transformed with a store window. But the best development for me of late has been Rolando, who owns Imperial Cleaners on Fulton near Clinton. He came here 6 months ago from Washington Heights where there are tons of dry cleaners and took over the former Bubbleworks store site. Simply put, Rolando does beautiful, fast, professional work at great prices. He'll rush for you, do repairs, even suffer your bad Spanish if you so choose to assault him. One thing that I love is that he does women's cotton/blend blouses for 3 dollars -- beautifully sized and hung up. Because we had nothing before -- Bubbleworks was a bad joke, an expensive, pre-paid bad joke, where the fumes coming off your clothes would make you pass out and where they stuffed your clothes with so much tissue paper, your suits could stand on their own and you got stuff back with cigarette holes in them.... I used to go to Brooklyn Heights to my old place to do dry cleaning. Anyway, Rolando is the best and if you haven't used him yet, please go there.

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