TPZ Laundromat

This is the laundromat closest to my apartment, so I’ve been using it for two years. In the past year it got cleaned up and refurbished (maybe a new owner) and everything was great for a while. For a while, it was very convenient to start your laundry and go back to your apartment. Most of the people in my building have been using it. I’d have given it a four-​star review back then.
However.
For the past six months at least, dryers have been breaking down (as mechanical things do) and for some unaccountable reason, the owner has not been fixing them along the way (as responsible owners of things should). I didn’t count and I’m not going back to use this laundry ever again after today, but it seems to me that by now, nearly a third of them are either permanently switched off or have tape over the coin slot.
In contrast, there are only one or two washing machines out.
The predictable outcome of this lopsided situation is that you can count on getting your clothes washed right away, but then more often than not, you have to wait 1 – 2 hours *in line* for a dryer. This is true even on a weekday morning (which is when I usually do my laundry, Monday or Tuesday). I narrowly averted such a wait today because I needed to go to work, and said so out loud, so the people who were there before me evidently gave me a pass on «cutting.» WTF? Given that most people have a life and better things to do with it than attend to their laundry, let alone this demeaning schoolyard situation, this is completely unacceptable and stupid.
When I voiced my complaint to another customer who was there, he agreed and said «yeah it’s getting to where it’s almost more convenient to go two blocks down the street.»
I don’t think this is an «almost,» this has been there for quite some time. From now on I am taking my business two blocks down the street to Carlin’s, where at least they have functional machines, plus a café with wifi, plus plenty of places to sit in the laundromat itself if I don’t want to hang out over there. Meaning that not only can I get my clothes done in the 90 minutes every other week that I grudgingly allow for it, I can keep working in a comfortable setting while the chore is happening. And they use magnetic cards instead of coin slots, so you don’t even have to fool with a pocketful of quarters and change machines all the time.
In sum, way to lose business via stupid neglect of your facilities and risking a negative public review like this one. Come on. You are competing with a Laundry Locker kiosk on the next block and a modernized laundromat with a café another block down. Step up your game, or get it over with and close up shop.

Attempt doing laundry here at your own risk. Yes, I said, «attempt». This is because, more often than not, when I go over they’ve closed early. Today, for instance, I got my 35 lbs of laundry together and hauled it over, only to find out they were closed. At 4:45. On the door it said they close at 7. This isn’t an isolated instance, and if you happen to be the only one there a couple hours before closing time (assuming they’re still open, anyway) the guy manning the place will keep asking you how much longer it’s going to take. Dude, I understand you want to get home, but it’s not like I’m usually in there until the very last minute. Just trying to get my laundry done after work or on the weekend like everyone else. This place makes it difficult.

I use their wash and fold service primarily because it’s the closest place to my studio. The guy who mans the place is there when I need him, and he’s friendly. No complaints.

This is a new clean laundromat with new machines that work well, 2 change machines, a well-​stocked supply of detergents, that is a reasonable price per load. There is an attendant who doesn’t do anything. He sits there and may or may not notice if someone is going to take your clothes. I didn’t risk it.
Basically a quick, efficient, does it’s job laundromat. Fills its’ role without the frills of Brain Wash, but also with less of a crowd, and nearer my house.
Also near enough to Zeitgeist (or next door to Martuni’s) so that you could, if you trusted your clothes not to get stolen/​yourself to remember to switch them, grab a drink while doing laundry.