Brown Street Cleaners

Great locations but way overpriced for something as replacing a button or to dry clean a sweater. I will be going back to cleaners on Fairmount ave across from the prison. This place also takes a lot longer to get items back.

This is the only place I’ll take my dry cleaning. I lived down the block and used them since they first opened; after recently moving, I still schlep to Art Museum to get my clothes dry cleaned here. From fixing shoes, to repairing the many rips I seem to get in my clothes (the lining of a jacket, jeans, a skirt — you name it), to run of the mill dry cleaning, Brown Street delivers high quality work at an affordable price. My only wish is that turnaround time was faster, but considering the care that each of my items receives, I can’t really complain.

The dry cleaning is good, but the shoe repair is awesome. I brought in my leather boots to be resoled, and they offered to do the tops, too. I wasn’t sure what that meant, but I agreed to it, and when I picked up my boots, they had been transformed– from all scratched up to practically brand new.

Had a seriously soiled linen ottoman cover for an IKEA bench dry cleaned here. The bench and cover that are no longer sold in stores, or else I would have just gotten a new one. I’ve had this cover for over ten years and try as I might, no amount of washing got rid of the yellowish stains (from normal use). Although the item still had some stains when I picked it up, it was still in waayyyy better condition than any of my efforts have ever yielded. She said she ran it through three times, customer service was good, price was fair. Going in today to get some coats dry cleaned, hopefully I have a good experience with this as well.

Adding this from another «Brown Street Cleaners» listing here that doesn’t show up in searches — what gives, Unilocal?Anyway, from November 2013:
«After a particularly messy night (to be fair, it was Halloween), I came home with a blouse with various food and drink stains, including half a beer spilled on me. Instead of trucking to center city to my usual dry cleaners my mind wandered back to the «50% off» sign spotted at the new Brown Street Cleaners across from my bus stop. I brought the blouse in feeling embarassed of its condition, but the woman behind the counter (the owner?) was kind and understanding and HONEST, noting she would try her best but couldn’t promise anything. At $ 2 (that’s with the with the 50% off promo) I didn’t have anything to lose. Fast forward a week (I was late picking up) and the top looks immaculate. Don’t know how she did it, but she just earned a new, happy customer in the ‘hood. «
UPDATE: The promo is over but service is still great!

I have had my wool winter coat and various cashmere sweaters cleaned here. I took advantage of their opening deal and had all the pieces dry cleaned for a little over 30 $.
However, even at a higher cost the results were top quality. I have a real vintage wool sailors pea-​coat, and a white cat at home. When I took my pea-​coat in it was covered in white cat fur inside and out. When I picked it up not only was the coat beautifully cleaned and the entire item was de-​furred. I had actually tried to de-​fur it before bringing it in and gave up 10 minutes in and I was happily surprised at how nice the coat looked when I picked it-​up.
The customer service here was wonderful. The women who works here is friendly, easy going. When I came back in to pick up my coat she not only remembered what I was picking up, but she remembered my name and greeted me in a friendly manner.