A laundry corner with a front-load washer in a brownstone basement laundry with an old concrete floor, seen from a low angle, the washer door catching the light.

New York Metro, NY

Washer repair in Brooklyn.

9 cities and neighborhoods across Brooklyn, part of New York Metro — 3 with a page on what that place does to a washer.

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What Brooklyn does
to a washer.

Where washers sit in Brooklyn: older housing stock, mixed housing, small homes.

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Older housing stock

Houses built long before automatic washers often got one wherever a drain could be found, and the standpipe, trap and supply valves may be far older than the machine. A washer that drains slowly or gurgles is sometimes reporting on the house's drain rather than on itself.

Mixed housing

Older homes may still have rubber supply hoses and multi-turn valves behind the washer, while newer ones have braided hoses and quarter-turn shutoffs, and the difference shows up when a hose finally fails. Swapping to braided hoses is simple insurance on blocks like these.

Small homes

Getting at the pump of a closet-bound stacked or 24-inch washer can mean unstacking the dryer or walking the washer forward inch by inch. Floor protection and a steady hand on the supply valves come with that territory.

Where we go
in Brooklyn.

9 cities and neighborhoods across Brooklyn, part of New York Metro, 3 of them with a page on what that place does to a washer. The same visit in each.

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Brooklyn Heights

Rowhouse owners here usually tuck the washer beneath the stoop level or into an upper-floor closet, with piping patched together over many owners.

DUMBO

Its warehouses and factories once turned out machinery, paper boxes, spices and Brillo soap pads.

Park Slope

Busy households in these brownstone blocks wash nearly every day, often in a cellar beside a vintage floor drain or slop sink.

Bay Ridge

Fort Hamilton, the part of Bay Ridge south of 86th Street, began growing in the 1830s as a resort beside the new military post.

Carroll Gardens

Draining the swampland around Gowanus Creek in the late 1860s, when the creek was dredged into the Gowanus Canal, helped open Carroll Gardens to further building.

Cobble Hill

By 1950 Cobble Hill's brownstones were being restored, and residents who fought off large housing projects persuaded the city to make the area a historic district.

Ditmas Park

Its Victorian houses give Ditmas Park such a suburban look that film and television crews use its streets often.

Greenpoint

Oil is believed to have seeped into the groundwater beneath Greenpoint, though none of it is drunk, since all of the city's drinking water comes from upstate reservoirs.