A & E Cleaners

This place closes early on weekdays, 7:00 pm. I stopped by at 6:40 pm to verify with the woman at the front that she would wait for me to go home and pick up a suit to be altered. She agreed, as I lived about 10 blocks away. I rushed home to pick up my suit and was back at this place at 7:02 pm only to find it closed, with the lights off and the place locked. Are you freaking kidding me? The stupid fat slob made me waste my time even though I made it very clear that I would be back soon and she promised to wait for me. I will never waste my time with this place again. Please don’t come to this place.

Lovely work on altering my wedding dress this fall. I bought my dress at BHLDN and they recommended some places in Manhattan. But I knew it would be more convenient to have it done in my neighborhood.
The wedding dress didn’t need major changes, but it was an intricate lace that required careful attention. I was so pleased that it was perfect in just on fitting!
Pat was very attentive and sweet and even coached me on how to walk to show off the slight train and not step in it.
She held on to the dress until we were leaving for our wedding so that she could time the final press and starch closer to the date. So that it would be as fresh as possible.
Now we bring our dry cleaning to A&e and I plan to bring all my future alterations.

I was really disappointed especially after reading all of the great reviews for this cleaner. I was in a bridal party and brought a dress to be altered, I needed to have it shortened and taken in a bit at the top. I was told to come back after Monday, but when I showed up on Tues my dress was not ready. When I went back on Wednesday no one could find my dress. I paid $ 85 dollars and my dress was shortened but not taken in at all! Thankfully I found another cleaner that did an amazing job taking a lot of the dress in for only $ 25. I will never trust this place for an important event again.

I went to the folks at A&E on a whim. I did not leave unhappy.
I brought them my part cotton/​part silk blend comforter because my cat had urinated on it. Everything I have ever heard and seen about cat urine led me to believe there was little to no chance of it coming out. I has to try though, as the comforter was a wedding gift from my best friend. When I brought it in I told the folks there that I was not expecting miracles. We picked it up a week later, and the urine was mostly gone. There was still a faint smell and stain, but I was still impressed they managed to get any of it out. However, the very nice woman there (who seemed like the owner and I am so sorry I didn’t catch her name) asked if we could leave it with her and let her try it again. I picked it up today, and just opened it up. The stain is gone, the smell is gone… in fact our comforter looks and smells brand new! I could not be happier, and just found my neighborhood dry cleaners.

A little pricey, but definitely a case of «you get what you pay for».
Very friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable.
The alterations were perfect and done quickly.

Completely botched shortening the sleeves on my husband’s shirt the week of our wedding. We asked her to replace the shirt and she proceeded to argue with him about why he would pay $ 90 for a shirt and she knows someone who makes custom shirts «much nicer» than some guy named Calvin Klein. Prior to that, I took a dress to her and thought the work was just alright, but it was an inexpensive dress so I didn’t make a big deal about it. She also didn’t hesitate to tell me that time how cheap she thought the dress looked & was made. I’m going to the tailor to fix a hem, not for your opinion on my clothes. There aren’t really many other tailors in our neighborhood but I will gladly go out of my way to never have to go here again.

My clothes were always NOT cleaned in this place. In fact, my white shirt was in worst condition than when I brought it in (they decorated it with yellow stains all over!). The woman/​owner there is rude because instead of doing the job for which she wants to get paid from, she doesn’t offer the pertinent service and she only wants to argue with you and then get paid after all. I would characterize the place very unprofessional.
Save your time, sanity, money and your clothes away from this place!

This is the best dry cleaner in New York. Everything I’ve brought here is always perfectly cleaned and pressed. Their prices are amazingly low for NYC. The tailoring is top notch too. Doesn’t get better than this.

Great Tailoring, fast service, and more than reasonable prices-​what else could you ask for?!

The tailor does great work but overcharges. I was in a bridal party and had a dress altered that came to $ 120. After talking to the other bridesmaids I discovered that none of them paid over $ 60 and had their alterations done at different places around the city.

I cannot stress this enough: BEST TAILOR IN NEW YORK CITY.
Not just in Astoria – in New York City.
I have been a bridesmaid eight (yes, eight) times and have taken each and every single dress to Pat for alterations. Not only is her pricing always better than what other bridesmaids in the wedding parties end up paying, but so is her work (other bridesmaids are always ooh’ing and ahh’ing over how well my dresses fit). She takes her time, she asks you how you’d like it to fit, she will tell you to bring your shoes for height and length measurements, she has a fitting room and has often asked me to try on the dress during my visits to make sure it is perfect. This fall, I will take her my ninth bridesmaid dress.
However, I was compelled to write my review now because I have a wedding tomorrow afternoon and realized late last night that the dress I’d planned on wearing was way too tight. As I took it off, the zipper even broke. I rushed into see Pat at 10:30 this morning and brought some extra fabric in hopes that she could use it to let the dress out a bit. I was nervous it would ruin the look of the dress. Low and behold, Pat called me back at 6:30 ON THE SAME DAY and asked if I could come back in to try it on. Not only did it look and fit perfectly, but she actually made the dress look even BETTER. On top of the rush and her hardwork, when I walked in, she was pressing the dress. Above and beyond the call of duty.
Best in NYC. Best tailor I’ve ever had!

5 stars for service: I really, really love this place. The lady who runs this place is the sweetest person, ever.
4.5 stars for quality: They really do a good job. It’s very rare that I am unsatisfied, but if I am for any reason at all, they’ve taken it back and provided quality service. Case in point, last week, I dropped off a pair of pants from Theory I wore for the first time (they got dirty from the horrid snow storm (s). The owner wasn’t around, so I dropped off my clothes with someone else. Usually, the owner is there, and she remembers the stains and such. Well, when my pants came back, the stains were still there. She apologized and happily took it back. When I received it the next day, the stains were completely gone! They really take care of your clothes… unlike KJM cleaners down the block. KJM was cheaper than A&E and closer to my home, so I used to go there until my trench coat came back with the buckles completely ruined. If you care about your clothes, come to A&E.
4 stars for price: Compared to Manhattan, the prices really aren’t that bad… but it adds up really quickly. The prices vary depending on different factors, but if I remember correctly, the ballpark figures for dry cleaning pants cost $ 4.50, shirts/​blouses around $ 4, $ 18 for outerwear, and $ 12 for sweaters. Again, these are ballpark figures and may be inaccurate.

When I first moved here I loved this place. I would take all my dry cleaning and alterations here. But I am not sure that I will any more. I had my stuff dry cleaned and when i got it back it smelled like sweat, it didn’t smell that way when I have it to them so I found it strange but I was away for a month and didn’t have time to deal with the issue. (Now a side note is I go in there often and they know me by name.) So I was in there and told her that my stuff smelled bad she had me bring it back and still charged me, it was a portion but charged me on jackets (suit jackets) that obviously were not worn in 100 degree weather you can tell by them they were not worn. On top of which I had a dress shortened and I’ve never paid so much for it, the dress didn’t cost as much I felt like it was making up for the dry cleaning. So needless to say I am not planing to go back.

I just moved into the area and dropped off a shirt I needed tailored for work. The shirt had ruffles on it of which I asked to be removed or shortened and the short sleeves to be adjusted into a tank top. The woman I dropped off the shirt with was very confused as to what I wanted and she said that the tailor was not there but if she had questions she would call me. I absolutely acknowledge that what I asked for was a bit on the complicated side but the reason I will never go back here is because after almost 2 weeks going by and never hearing from this place, I stopped by to see if the shirt was ready. The shirt was never even touched. The woman who helped me this time was the one altering the clothes. She said she was really busy and couldn’t get to it in addition to not really understanding what I wanted. I asked her why no one ever called me to ask and her only response was that she was very busy. I was literally dumbstruck by the lack of care and professionalism. Not even a phone call? Come on people!

My sister and her fiancé decided in September that they were going to get married in December, so I had a short amount of time to find (I got to pick my own!), order, and tailor my maid of honor dress.
After much searching, I found the perfect dress, but it would take many weeks to have it delivered, so I knew I had a short amount of time to get it tailored to fit. I got the dress at the beginning of December and had already done much Unilocaling to find a tailor that could hem three layers of chiffon for me in two weeks time. A&E Cleaners was the winner.
The dress was actually a lot bigger than I thought it would be (thank God I didn’t listen to them and order a size up!), so I had to have it hemmed, as well as taken in at my chest and waist. I arrived at A&E around 8:30 on a Saturday morning. No one was in the store except for Panayiota (I only know this from her business card), the seamstress.
Panayiota was super friendly and very knowledgable (or maybe her thick Greek accent fooled me). I was in and out in 20 minutes. She said she’d have it ready a week from Monday and asked that I call a day before. Perfect.
I actually called on Monday to remind her because I’d forgotten over the weekend and knew I couldn’t get it that night — it seemed she had forgotten about it, which I didn’t mind too much, as long as it was ready the next day, and it was. She’s a speedy little worker, that one.
She asked if I wanted to try it on there (I didn’t), so I took it home to try on. Now, I may have gained a pound or two in that ten days (I think I was having a skinny day when it was tailored), but my too-​big dress was now a little tight. I was worried.
Despite shoving my belly full of food throughout holiday parties and Christmas, I managed to fit in the dress the day of the wedding. The alterations came to $ 69, which I found a little high, but she did do a great job in a short time. And I did pay $ 45 for David’s Bridal to take six weeks to hem one layer of sateen (a much easier fabric to work with) for me months prior. So all in all, I think it was worth the money and will be back if need be.

Pat, the owner, does a great job tailoring, whether you need things taken in or out, or new clothes tailored in any which way. She is great. The prices for the tailoring are very good and the quality of the work is very high. It’s also a very nice dry cleaner. And they do accept credit cards now.

This is the only place that can touch my clothes. Due to me being on the petite side, I have to get everything altered somehow, whether a hem here, a tuck there, everything I buy comes here first. While I’m not going to say they are cheap, the price I pay matches the quality of the alterations I get back. I’d be lost without this place, since I’ve had my share of clothing ruined from bad tailors.

This place does a great job with your clothing, a nice family owned business. One thing to watch out for — they make up prices on the spot based on «ranges» and have tried to gouge me several times. The mother (who seemingly owns the place and does the tailoring — quite well I might add) usually offers fair prices, but I got her daughter and got totally ripped off for the same garments the next time. They also only take cash.