Yes. We're at 2080 Jerome Avenue, five minutes south of Fordham Road under the same elevated 4 tracks, so most Fordham Heights jobs are handled the same day. Chip repairs take about 30 minutes, side windows and most windshields under 90. Walk-ins are fine. The price quoted on the phone is the price you pay.
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Fordham Heights and this shop share a ZIP code. From the 183rd Street platform on Jerome you're already looking down the stretch of avenue we work on, and most of the cars that come in belong to people who live between University Avenue and the Grand Concourse. That closeness changes what we can promise: glass for the cars that actually park on these blocks stays on the shelf, and if yours needs something less common, it usually gets here the same afternoon rather than next week.
Hours are the other half of it. Plenty of people around West Fordham Road work retail shifts, campus hours at Bronx Community College or overnight, and can't hand a car over between nine and five on a Tuesday. We're open every day, early morning through late, so the car can go in before the stores on the strip pull up their gates or after you finish a double. Pricing works the same way in both directions: the figure you get by phone is the figure at the counter, with no line items discovered at pickup. Every job ends with the inside vacuumed, glass out of the door pockets and carpet.
Jerome Avenue sets the rhythm here. The el keeps the roadway in shadow, the columns eat a lane in each direction, and drivers cut around them without much warning. West Fordham Road is worse in its own way: Bx12 buses pull in every block or two, delivery vans double-park outside the stores, and the curb lane is really a queue. East of that the Grand Concourse gives you room and lights that actually stagger, which is why people use it to get anywhere north or south. West of Jerome the land drops toward the Harlem River, so University Avenue, Aqueduct Avenue and Sedgwick Avenue run downhill in short steep pieces with cars parked bumper to bumper on both sides. Legal curb space near Devoe Park fills by mid-morning, and the Major Deegan ramps at the bottom of the hill keep truck traffic moving through streets that were never sized for it.
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Most of the cracked glass we see from these blocks starts one of three ways. Trucks coming off the Deegan throw stones on the climb up toward Fordham Road, and a stone at highway speed leaves a star chip you notice a day later. Then there's the el: grit, rust flakes and road salt sit on the steel over Jerome and come down on whatever is parked underneath, and a windshield already pitted from that spreads a chip fast. The third is the pavement. Aqueduct and Sedgwick are patched, steep and hard on suspension, and the flex of dropping a wheel into a hole on a cold morning is often what turns a quiet chip into a line across the glass. Add tight curb space, swinging van doors and the occasional smashed side window on a quiet block, and that covers nearly everything that comes through the door.
From anywhere near Fordham Road, point the car south on Jerome and stay under the tracks. You'll pass the 183rd Street station and we're a few blocks further down at 2080, just north of West Burnside Avenue. Coming from University Avenue or Devoe Park, take Burnside east down the hill and turn left on Jerome. If you're on the Grand Concourse, cut west on Burnside and you're here in a couple of minutes. Parking on Jerome is what it is, so call ahead and we'll tell you where to put the car. If none of that works, the mobile van covers Fordham Heights with no trip fee and does the same job at your curb.
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Curb space on Jerome under the el turns over fast but it's rarely open at the moment you want it. Most people park on one of the side streets a block off the avenue, or just leave the car with us and walk up to the Fordham Road stores for an hour. Tell us when you call and we'll say which is realistic that day. If the job runs past your window, the car is fine sitting here.
Yes, Fordham Heights is inside the mobile area and there's no trip fee, so the price matches the shop exactly. The van needs a legal spot with a little room on the door side, which is easier on the residential streets off Aqueduct or Sedgwick than on Fordham Road itself. It also needs dry weather, since urethane won't cure in rain or hard cold.
Early. We open before the morning rush builds on Jerome and stay open late every day of the week, holidays included. People come off overnight shifts and get a side window in before breakfast, or drop the car on a Sunday afternoon that finally freed up. Call first so the glass is pulled and waiting, and a small job can be finished while you sit.
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