This is an update to my first review. While many of the troubles I mentioned before still exist, they do seem to be trying harder to keep the dryers clean and working well. I hope it's a trend that continues!
OLD REVIEW: Wish I could give minus stars. This USED to be a great mat. It is NOT Clean Rite anymore. For a few years now, it has been SuperClean, with a Chinese name attached to it. I think maybe Clean Rite was losing money on this and sold it to the current owner(s). It was not a good thing for this neighborhood. The worst thing with Clean Rite was troublesome dryers they couldn't seem to keep hot enough. If you told them the dryers weren't working or were dirty, they did something about it. There were always a lot of people in here because Clean Rite at least tried to keep it clean and working. And there are tons of apts around here. The new owner(s) hired mostly Chinese attendants, who are very nice and try to be helpful. But when things go wrong, as they do more and more here, the language barrier is insurmountable. They think they know what you mean but they don't. The last time I was here, I opened the dryer I had been using and was so assaulted by a bunch of gas, I nearly passed out. I was dizzy and nauseous for hours afterwards. Of course, my stuff wasn't dry. So the attendant tried to just address that. by giving me time on another dryer. She said the gas smell was "OK". How was it OK? Another time, there were FLAMES visible in the back of the dryer I was using--not in it but behind it. The guy that was there that time, who speaks very fluent English, also told me it was OK. I said it was not and he switched dryers. 90-98% of the dryers ALWAYS have blackened candy-gum-whatever-it-is inside. Am I just too picky? I think not, as that crap has come off at various times, on my coverlets, sheets, pillowcases and work clothes. It is miserable, if not impossible to get off. There is no excuse for it. It just shows that the owners don't know better! And that attitude has brought, over the last year or so, a different clientele. I don't know who they are but they don't live in this neighborhood. They are belligerent, pick fights with us regular customers, messy, etc. This laundromat has pretty much gone ghetto. This is not a racist remark, as it is all colors behaving badly. This is a 24-hour mat. The trends I'm describing make it even creepier to be here late at night. Combine all that with a No-Speaky English crew, who won't do anything when trouble starts and an apparently really cheap owner, it will not surprise me at all if they close this down within the next year or so. If it stays open, I don't think many of us around here will want to go here. This place used to be PACKED. Now it's only like that when a bad storm is coming in. read more