Blondi Auto Glass works on Hunts Point cars, vans and box trucks at 1747 Jerome Avenue, roughly twenty minutes away by the Bruckner and the Cross Bronx. No appointment, no waiting list. Door and rear glass is about an hour, windshields 60 to 90 minutes plus safe drive-away time, so a driver gives up part of a shift instead of a day.
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Drivers who work out of Hunts Point cannot park a truck for two days waiting on a piece of glass. The produce and meat houses run around the clock, market traffic starts well before dawn, and a cracked windshield sitting under an inspection sticker is a fine waiting to happen. That is exactly why we do not keep an appointment book. Roll up to 1747 Jerome Avenue when your run is finished, tell us the vehicle, and somebody starts looking at it right then. We open at 07:00 six days a week, which suits people finishing early as much as people starting early.
Most of what comes to us off this peninsula is a working vehicle — cargo vans, pickups, box trucks, small fleets. The common windshields and door glass for those sit on our shelf. A side window is about an hour of bench time. A windshield takes 60 to 90 minutes and then roughly another hour before it is safe to drive on. We bill insurance directly, fit new moldings and clips rather than reusing tired seals, and vacuum out every cube of tempered glass, which matters when the cab doubles as somebody's office.
Hunts Point is a working peninsula between the Bronx River and the East River, and the traffic tells you so. Hunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard feed a steady line of tractor-trailers and refrigerated trucks toward Food Center Drive and the market gates, with Halleck Street, Longwood Avenue and Lafayette Avenue taking the overflow. The 6 train stops at Hunts Point Avenue and Longwood Avenue for anyone leaving a vehicle behind. Pavement out here takes punishment no residential street ever sees: sunken utility cuts, steel plates that ring under the tires, rail spurs crossing the roadway, and truck aprons ground down to loose gravel. Parking means yards, curbs and lots rather than driveways, and plenty of vehicles sit outside all night around Edgewater Road and Oak Point Avenue. Barretto Point Park and Concrete Plant Park are about the only quiet edges of the whole place.
“This team was great! Someone broke into my car and I went to their shop to fix my window. They completed the window and vacuumed my car within an hour.”
Gravel is the main enemy out here. Flatbeds and dump bodies coming off the market roads throw stone and construction grit straight into the windshield of whatever is behind them, and at truck speed a small stone leaves a star chip rather than a scratch. Steel plates and sunken utility cuts on Halleck Street and Randall Avenue shock the body hard enough to run an existing crack across the glass in a single hit. Refrigerated trailers sling ice and road salt through the winter. Vehicles left overnight on industrial blocks with no residents watching get their side windows punched for tool bags and radios, and that is the other half of what we see from this ZIP. Add the diesel vibration a high-mileage van lives with and a chip that would sit still on a quiet street spreads within days.
The run is the Bruckner Expressway west to the Cross Bronx Expressway westbound, then off at Jerome Avenue — roughly seven miles and about twenty minutes when the Bruckner is not stacked up. Off the exit you are on Jerome under the elevated 4 train, and 1747 sits on the stretch between the Mount Eden Avenue and 176th Street stops. Watch the columns down the middle of the roadway as you come in, because the lanes are narrower than they look from a high cab. Curb parking out front is metered and commercial, so get close and we will sort you out. For a van that should not be driven with the glass out, our mobile service comes to the yard.
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Regularly. Cargo vans, pickups and small box trucks are a big share of what comes through the bay, and the crew here are mechanics as well as glass installers, so a seized regulator or a rusted trim clip does not turn into a two-day problem. Bring the VIN with you and we can confirm the exact pane before you commit to the trip over.
Seven in the morning, Monday through Saturday. That is the real opening time, not a phone line opening time, and the first hour tends to be the quietest stretch of the day in the bay. Somebody coming off the market at dawn can be in, finished with a door window, and back out before the avenue fills up with school traffic.
We file comprehensive claims directly, and that covers most break-in and vandalism damage on a commercial policy the same way it does a personal one. Bring the policy details and the vehicle information and the paperwork is on us. Chip repairs frequently come back at zero out of pocket, and we will say up front when the deductible makes paying cash the cheaper route.
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| Monday – Saturday | 07:00 – 18:30 |
| Sunday | Closed |