I have to say, it makes me really happy to write such a positive review about any business I come across.
I've been looking for a good dry cleaner in the East Harlem neighborhood, but it's been challenging as most of the reviews have thus far been for laundry and less for dry cleaning. I went to another spot a couple years ago and was scarred to have a brand new dress ruined (the material was burned and completely ruined). Since then, I've always gone back to Clean and More on 90th Street but it was out of my way. Finally, I decided it was time to take a risk, so I went to Comen Cleaners simply due to how close it was to my apartment. After multiple trips I felt like I could write a fair assessment of the place (and was relieved it was with good things to say!).
The place looks like any other dry cleaners and is run some sweet Korean ladies. They were very friendly and seemed to know regulars by name.
WHAT I CLEANED: A silk cocktail dress, a white silk blouse (with makeup stains!), a white wool sweater. I also brought in a merino wool sweater with a GIANT hole in the middle of the back (I didn't sort my laundry properly and it ended up in the wash - I imagine some zipper got caught on it and wrecked it).
WHAT I EXPECTED: Honestly, I was a little nervous since I had let the stains sit a little on all the items (hey, I was looking for a dry cleaner!). However, Comen was able to remove sweat stains from the silk cocktail dress, remove the makeup stains from an extremely unforgiving and fragile white silk blouse, AND she fixed that gaping hole in my sweater (which, by the way, is a very unique emerald green - they were able to find a shade that matched not perfectly, but very close) so that it was nearly unseen unless you were looking closely! I was so pleased - my mother had insisted that it wasn't worth fixing but I'm so glad the ladies there tried. And quite honestly, when I first brought it in, the lady I dealt with was a little doubtful but stood there and examined the hole, thinking, and then finally decided she would try. I really appreciated that! The only thing that was a bummer was there was one stain that didn't come out of my white wool sweater -- however, I knew it was an old stain and that it was a long shot anyway. Honestly, it wasn't a big deal - the rest of the sweater was cleaned well and I was so pleased with the other three items (and those really mattered more to me).
WHAT I COUGHED UP: As far as the prices go, this is what I was charged for the items:
Wool sweater -- fixing the gaping hole -- $5
Wool sweater -- cleaning -- $10
Silk blouse -- cleaning -- $6
Silk dress -- cleaning -- $10
I'm now going to start bringing in some of my winter wool jackets for dry cleaning once I sort through what needs to go to the cleaners - I'll update the review with more details then. read more