Kingsbridge sits at the top of the same Jerome Avenue corridor as the shop, roughly three miles north of us. Head straight south under the elevated line to 1747 Jerome Avenue, no appointment and no phone call first. Most side and rear glass is finished within the hour, and windshields run 60 to 90 minutes plus drive-away time.
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The drive is about as simple as anything gets in this borough. Point the car south on Jerome, pass the armory at Kingsbridge Road, and keep the elevated tracks over your head the whole way down to us. Twelve to fifteen minutes, no expressway involved. Customers come off the Broadway blocks, down from Bailey Avenue and off Kingsbridge Terrace, and most have not phoned first. That is how the place runs. The car sitting in the bay is the one getting fixed.
Windshields and door glass for the models we handle most are stocked on site, which is why walking in works instead of turning into a two-day wait for a part. Chip repair takes under thirty minutes with you standing there watching, and against comprehensive coverage it frequently costs nothing. Full windshield replacement is $250 to $450 installed for most vehicles, more where a camera or luxury glass is involved. We file the claim, fit fresh moldings and clips, vacuum the interior out, and back the workmanship for as long as the vehicle belongs to you.
Two elevated lines define this end of the Bronx: the 1 train over Broadway with stops at 231st Street, 238th Street and Marble Hill-225th Street, and the 4 train over Jerome Avenue at Kingsbridge Road. Broadway under the el is the busy one, delivery vans double-parked outside the storefronts and buses working across it on West 231st Street. The grades between Broadway and Kingsbridge Terrace are steep enough that people pick a parking spot by the slope, and Heath Avenue, Bailey Avenue and Albany Crescent all climb or fall in ways that make a three-block errand take longer than it should. The Kingsbridge Armory stands on Jerome at Kingsbridge Road, same avenue as our bay. Van Cortlandt Park caps the north end, Marble Hill sits southwest across the creek, and the Major Deegan on-ramps keep pulling traffic off the west side of the neighborhood.
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Those hills do a lot of the damage up here. Rolling back a few inches on a grade into the bumper behind, or threading past a double-parked van on Broadway with el columns on the other side, takes out mirrors and quarter glass regularly. Delivery traffic on the commercial blocks leaves almost no room and drivers squeeze through anyway. Major Deegan on-ramps put cars straight into highway-speed traffic that throws stone, and a chip picked up on the Deegan does not stay a chip long on streets where the vehicle parks nose-down on a slope and the body flexes. Winter sand and salt spread on those grades gets picked up by tires and fired at whatever follows. Storms bring limbs down off the trees at the north end onto cars parked below.
Jerome Avenue is the whole route. From Kingsbridge Road head south on Jerome, past the armory, and stay under the elevated 4 train for roughly three miles until you reach 1747, on the stretch between the Mount Eden Avenue and 176th Street stops. Twelve to fifteen minutes in normal traffic. The Major Deegan south to the Cross Bronx Expressway and off at Jerome is the alternative on days when the avenue is crawling. Our block looks like the rest of it, steel columns, shade from the tracks overhead, tight commercial curb space. We open at seven and stay open until six-thirty, Monday through Saturday. Mobile service runs up this way for drivers who cannot make the trip themselves.
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Jerome under the el is metered commercial curb and it is tight, particularly with the steel columns standing down the middle of the roadway. Most people stop right outside, hand the keys over and let us move the vehicle into the bay. Arriving close to opening is easier than mid-morning. There is no point spending twenty minutes circling the block, so come to the door and we will sort it.
That is the most common walk-in we see. Chip repair takes under thirty minutes with the car in the bay and you can watch the resin go in. Running south on Jerome from Kingsbridge is twelve to fifteen minutes, so the entire detour comes in under an hour most mornings. Against comprehensive coverage a chip repair frequently costs the driver nothing.
Rear glass carrying a printed defroster grid or an in-glass antenna falls in the $200 to $450 band for most vehicles, cleanup included. Figure about an hour once the glass is in hand, plus a bit more for the wiring, since the grid tabs and the antenna lead both get reconnected and tested. We check that the defroster actually heats before the keys go back.
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