Yes. Throggs Neck is around nine miles from 2080 Jerome Avenue, a little over twenty minutes by expressway, and it is also one of the neighborhoods our van visits most. Chips take about half an hour, side glass under an hour, windshields 60 to 90 minutes plus cure. We are open all seven days.
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No subway comes down here, and that single fact governs everything about a broken window in Throggs Neck. There is no version of this where you leave the car somewhere for three days and take the train instead. The vehicle has to work, which means the repair has to be quick, predictable and priced honestly the first time you ask. That is what we set the shop up to do: one number given over the phone and held at the counter, and hours that run early to late every day of the week.
It is also why we send the van out this far without charging for the trip. If the glass is bad enough that driving up the Bruckner would be a poor idea, or if the schedule genuinely will not allow the round trip, we bring the job to your driveway at the shop price. Either way the figures are the same: $60 to $130 for a chip fill, often nothing once comprehensive coverage is applied, $200 to $500 for a windshield with most cars at $250 to $450, and $200 to $450 for side and rear glass. Insurance is filed by us, and the interior is vacuumed before you get the keys.
East Tremont Avenue is the thread that holds the neighborhood together, running southeast through the shopping blocks and out toward the water, with the buses working their way along it and cars pulling in and out of the storefronts all day. Off it, the streets are mostly residential and low-rise, one- and two-family houses with driveways and garages, which is a rarity in this borough and shapes how people here treat a car. The waterfront pockets like Silver Beach and Edgewater Park are different again, laid out with lanes so narrow that a delivery truck is an event. Around the edges, the Bruckner Expressway, the Hutchinson River Parkway and the approach to the bridge carry through traffic that never touches a local street, while Pennyfield Avenue runs down toward Fort Schuyler at the point. The nearest subway is a bus ride away at Westchester Square.
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Weather does more damage to glass here than crime does. Cars sit outdoors on driveways under mature trees, and a hard blow coming across the water takes limbs down onto whatever is parked beneath them. A branch on a back window is a rear glass replacement, every time. The wind carries grit off the open ground near the shore too, and it pits a windshield gradually until an ordinary stone chip has somewhere to travel. That stone usually arrives on the expressway or the parkway, thrown by a truck at speed on the way in from a commute nobody can avoid making by train. Winter finishes it. Salt and sand go down heavily on the bridge and expressway approaches, and the chip you took in November is opened by the first frozen morning and a defroster run at full heat.
The straightforward way is East Tremont Avenue northwest to the Bruckner Expressway, then west, following the signs for the Cross Bronx and staying with it to the Jerome Avenue exit. Turn north there and we are a few blocks up at 2080, just below West Burnside Avenue with the 4 train tracks overhead. Twenty to twenty-five minutes when the road behaves. Curiously the street you start on will also get you here on its own, since East Tremont Avenue runs the width of the borough, but from this end it is a crawl through every light there is. Call first so the glass is out and waiting, or take the van instead at the same price.
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We do, and without a trip charge. It is a regular run for us rather than a favour, precisely because there is no train from here and a car sitting broken costs people real time. Book it like any other job, give us the address and the cross street, and the van arrives loaded for your exact vehicle. The price is identical to what you would pay standing at the counter.
Usually, but tell us where it is when you book. Those lanes are narrow and the van needs somewhere legal to stand alongside the car with room to open a door and work at the glass. If your spot is too tight, moving the car a couple of hundred feet to a wider stretch for the appointment solves it. We would rather sort that out on the phone than on arrival.
There is, and for most jobs waiting is the sensible choice given the distance. A chip is about half an hour and a door window is usually inside the hour, so you are not waiting long. A windshield takes 60 to 90 minutes plus the safe drive-away time, and we will tell you that number before you decide whether to stay or come back later the same day.
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