Lin’s Shoe Repair

Super cheap for shoe repair. He did a very good job.

I have had about five pairs of shoes repaired by Mr. Lin and every time he had been nothing but courteous and caring. His work is of the best quality but he is also very fast and offers great prices. Furthermore, I asked him about some repair work on a leather bag and he was very honest with me about realistic solutions and did not try to convince me to go for the priciest option. He is my first choice for all shoe needs and I highly recommend him for anyone in the area.

Mr. Lin is the most efficient, skillful, and economic cobbler in Downtown Flushing. I took the advise of other Unilocalers and went there last night to get my shoes fixed. I picked them up this morning and I’m a very happy customer. I’ll be taking my shoes to get them fixed here from now on.

Lins shoe repair was an interesting experience. Its kind of hard to find because all the signs are in chinese but you go into what looks like a little shop and it ends up this long hallway thats set up like a flee market. You walk down to the very end and theres a lins shoe repair. The man working there was such a sweetie when I went. I had a pair of heels that were just poorly made and the soles fell off. He told me itd be about an hour. When i got back the shoes were fixed so well I even tried to take the sole off again to check and I couldnt get it to budge. He only charged me 10 dollars but I was so impressed and happy I gave him 15. After me insisting he took the cash and smiled and then gave me a bar of soap he said he made himself. I havent tried the soap yet but it smells so good!

Very courteous man. He fixed my partner’s shoes while we waited. It helps if you speak Korean.

I was in a rush for a repair and Mr Lin did it quick and was courteous. I will definitely go back.

I had a near catastrophe with another shoe repair place nearby, but thankfully Mr. Lin was very helpful and professional.
I brought two pairs of boots here to get fixed and he fixed both of them very quickly and for a good deal. The last pair I brought to him, he fixed the heels within 5 minutes!
I will definitely come back here to get all my shoes fixed. Thank god there is another shoe repair place in Flushing or else we would all be stuck with the asshole at «Repair Shoes and Zip.»

So my new UK boots broke after I fell down the stairs. It’s only a month old, so I’m not planning to throw it out. What to do… shoe repair!
I Googled for shoe repair in Flushing, but the only thing I got was Kim’s Shoe Repair. When I got there, it was closed. So I started wandering into other random Chinese mini-​malls and I found a sign that’s labeled in English «Shoe Repair» right underneath «Key Repair».
I went up to Mr. Lin, who was talk in Korean at another customer. I asked if he spoke Cantonese.
Nope.
English?
Nope. Mandarin or Korean.
Okay. Let’s go with crappy Mandarin and a lot of hand gestures.
I showed him my broken heel. He told me that since the heel is hollowed, he’ll have cut off the heel and put in a new one, and for the other boot too to match. I didn’t want to cut of the other unproblematic boot, but he said that it would be uneven otherwise. He even showed me the material that he was going to use for the new heel. He asked me how much I paid for, and quoted $ 30 for the repair and told me to come back tomorrow to pick it up.
I went back the next day and the shoes… didn’t look bad at all. There was a scuff on the back of one of the shoe, but I wasn’t sure if I did it in the fall or he did it while repairing. In the end, my boots are repaired!
The things you find wandering in tiny Chinese malls…