Blondi Auto Glass sits at 1747 Jerome Avenue, inside Morris Heights, so this is your own neighborhood glass shop rather than a drive across the borough. Most people here walk in without calling first. Chips take under thirty minutes, a door window runs about an hour, and a windshield is 60 to 90 minutes plus safe drive-away time.
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Half the cars we work on came from within a few blocks of the bay door. Featherbed Lane, Macombs Road, West Burnside Avenue, the buildings up along University Avenue: people leave the car with us and walk home. There is no booking system to deal with. You pull up on Jerome, tell us which glass broke, and we tell you straight away whether it is on the shelf. Doors open at seven, Monday through Saturday, and the earliest arrivals are usually the ones who found their car opened up overnight.
Common windshields and door glass for the models parked on these blocks stay in stock, which is the only reason a walk-in works at all. A side or rear pane is about an hour once we have it in hand, and every shard gets vacuumed out of the door cavity, the seat tracks and the carpet before you go. Windshields run $250 to $450 installed for most vehicles, chips $60 to $150 and often nothing at all with comprehensive coverage. We file the insurance claim ourselves, and the workmanship warranty holds for as long as you keep the car.
Jerome Avenue runs through the middle of this neighborhood with the elevated 4 train bolted overhead, steel columns down the center of the roadway, and the Mount Eden Avenue and 176th Street stops a few blocks apart. West of Jerome the ground drops hard toward Sedgwick Avenue, Undercliff Avenue and the Harlem River, one of the steeper grades anywhere in the borough, with Roberto Clemente State Park at the bottom of it. The Major Deegan Expressway follows that waterfront, the Cross Bronx Expressway crosses above the avenue a couple of blocks north, and the Alexander Hamilton and Washington Bridges carry the Manhattan traffic over the water. Almost nobody around here has a driveway. Cars sit hydrant to hydrant on West 174th Street and West 176th Street, get shuffled twice a week for alternate-side street cleaning, and spend the rest of their time wedged between double-parked delivery vehicles under the el.
“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.”
Overnight break-ins are the single biggest reason people from these blocks end up at our counter — a door window punched out on a side street where the car sat all night with nothing but a curb between it and the sidewalk. The hill does its own damage. Cars roll back on the grade between Sedgwick Avenue and Jerome, bumpers find each other, and glass takes the hit. Grit and gravel drop off the Cross Bronx where it crosses above the avenue, and the el structure sheds rust flakes and hardware onto the roadway below, which is how a lot of small star chips begin. Cold weather finishes the job: a stone chip picked up in November sits quiet until the first freezing morning with the defroster on high, then runs clean across the glass before you reach the corner.
You probably already know the building. 1747 Jerome Avenue, on the stretch under the elevated 4 between the Mount Eden Avenue and 176th Street stops, a couple of blocks south of where the Cross Bronx crosses overhead. Coming from Featherbed Lane or University Avenue it is a few minutes downhill; from the top end near West Burnside Avenue, roll straight down the avenue. Curb space out front is metered and commercial, so give yourself a minute to find a gap, or pull up and one of us will point you somewhere to sit. Somebody is in the bay from seven in the morning until half past six at night, every day but Sunday. Anything that cannot be driven safely gets the mobile van instead, quoted before the tech leaves.
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That is how most of this neighborhood does it. There is no appointment book and no slot to wait for. Come by any time between 07:00 and 18:30, Monday through Saturday, and we will look at the glass while you stand there. Calling ahead only really helps if your vehicle is unusual and we need to check the part before you arrive.
People from the surrounding buildings do it every day. A chip is under thirty minutes so it is barely worth leaving, but a windshield needs 60 to 90 minutes of work plus roughly another hour for the adhesive to reach safe drive-away strength, longer when the weather is cold or damp. Walk home, get something to eat, and come back when we call you.
Bring it in first thing. Door and rear glass for popular models is on the shelf, the swap itself takes around an hour, and we vacuum the cubes out of the door, the seats and the carpet before you leave. Somebody who arrives at seven with a smashed side window is usually back on the road well before lunch.
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| Monday – Saturday | 07:00 – 18:30 |
| Sunday | Closed |