Alper’s True Value Hardware

Super helpful staff. Always willing to go above and beyond and make sure you get what you need.

Wandered in yesterday and the staff was delightful. I came out with something I didn’t know I needed, which is always a treat. It’s a bit cramped, but that adds to the considerable charm.

Needed a small part to fix a lamp. Walked in was greeted and directed right to what I was looking for. In and out in 5 minutes that is what great service is all about. I will be a regular.

Great selection, you can find pretty much anything there. but not all of the staff knowledgable about items. Was looking for a specific outdoor lightbulb that I was picking up for someone else and the woman helping me gave me an indoor only lightbulb (assuring me that it could also be used for outdoor) that did not even fit into the lamp. Had to return it the next day and refused her help and quickly found the correct lightbulb on my own.

This is a great hardware store. Always have what I need for an amazing price.
However, just today discovered the paint store, Picked up 3 gallons of paint. They were so helpful. Alper’s is the reason Home Depot and will not take over the world

The place in town to get any hardware for your project or repair. They are a family run business that’s a fixture in town. They’re always willing and able to help with finding exactly what you need.

Who doesn’t love Alper’s? It’s a Long Island institution that has a lot of merit.
It runs on great service and they have everything you could possible dream of wanting or needing for hardware and home keeping.

I’ve been going to Alper’s since the day after closing on my then-​goddawful house in 1995, upon recommendation by a colleague who, as it happened, turned out to have been living in Port Washington for many years. He told me that it was a store that had everything — and boy, he wasn’t kidding! I was able to find replacement hardware for windows that wouldn’t stay locked, plumbing parts for a sink that leaked, drip pans for a stove that lacked them, as well as a huge selection of household items and small appliances I desperately needed to outfit my kitchen and bathrooms. In time, as the inside of my house improved, I began to concentrate on the outside, and Alper’s had it all, from gardening supplies, to barbeques (we still have the Weber Genesis we bought there way back when), to lawn furniture, to paints and stains. The thing I find most amazing about Alper’s is the wealth of diverse loose hardware they have in stock, and the fact that everyone who works there knows what they have, where they are, and are more than happy to search high and low to find exactly what you need. Try THAT at a big box megastore!

What can one say about an institution? Once you have achieved that status, no comment from Unilocal or any other web site can do any harm.
But for those of you who are new to the North Shore or who are looking for a break from the chain stores, check out Alper’s. I didn’t know Dave Alper personally, but my dad did. My father had a business in Port for many, many years and he raved about Dave and later, after he passed, about his wife. Now Dave’s daughters and sons-​in-​law run the place. It is an old fashioned but large, modern store with personal service. Wood floors and drawers holding everything anyone would ever need in this life, or the next. Alas, the outdoor store which sold and serviced snow blowers and power lawn mowers on Irma Avenue has given way to a Benjamin Moore paint shop but it is closely overseen by Lew Cohen (a son-​in-​law).
I needed a very small part which I could not locate anywhere. It was for the spritzer on my fancy new sink. The manufacturer was of no help at all nor was the installer. But Lew Cohen went through every draw in the store and came up with the part. I installed it and it worked! There is no better recommendation than a store owner who takes a personal interest in your problems and doesn’t rest until he/​she solves it. Thanks Lew and much continued success to Alper’s on your next 100 years.

Alpers is family owned & run, & has been Port Washington’s Hardware Store since the day the glacier moved on, leaving a pile of rocks & dirt behind.
Okay not quite, but it’s gotta be 100 years old or so, & they sell everything but your grandma. They are also probably the friendliest people in all of Long Island.