A kitchen with a microwave hood combination under wall cabinets and gray slab cabinets, seen close and low at the microwave's door.

New York Metro, NY

Microwave repair in Manhattan.

9 cities and neighborhoods across Manhattan, part of New York Metro — 6 with a page on what that place does to a microwave.

(844) 393-5858

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

9 places covered
6 with a page
10 repairs we do here

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What Manhattan does
to a microwave.

Where microwaves sit in Manhattan: tower living, older housing stock, apartments and walk-ups.

All of New York Metro

Tower living

Tower kitchens are usually all-electric and often cannot duct outside, so the microwave hood combination cleans the air through a charcoal filter, and one left unchanged for years is why the apartment still smells of last week's dinner.

Older housing stock

Older houses run the kitchen on circuits laid out long before microwaves, and a unit that trips the breaker or dims the lights on start may be healthy on a circuit that is not; the circuit is measured first.

Apartments and walk-ups

Small kitchens have few outlets, and a microwave sharing a power strip with the toaster and the kettle trips breakers and strains its own fuse, so the visit looks at the outlet before the unit.

Where we go
in Manhattan.

9 cities and neighborhoods across Manhattan, part of New York Metro, 6 of them with a page on what that place does to a microwave. The same visit in each.

9places covered 8counties in New York Metro 10repairs

All of New York Metro

Battery Park City

The neighborhood's ground is landfill placed in the Hudson during the 1970s, using earth excavated for the World Trade Center and a city water tunnel plus sand dredged off Staten Island.

Greenwich Village

In ZIP code 10014, 68 percent of homes predate 1940, yet two-thirds of them are in buildings of 20 or more units.

SoHo

Some 500 buildings on 26 blocks, many with cast-iron fronts or details, make up the landmark district that covers nearly all of SoHo.

Tribeca

Tribeca lofts with long islands often pair a microwave drawer below the counter with a speed oven in the wall of tall cabinets, both part of one designed run.

Upper East Side

Prewar apartments here fit a microwave hood combination or a built-in unit into a narrow galley during renovation, on kitchen circuits that the building's older wiring shares with other rooms.

Upper West Side

In ZIP code 10024, on the Upper West Side, 72 percent of housing units were built before 1940.

Also covered in Manhattan

ChelseaChelsea's oldest standing house was built on a lot leased from the Moore family estate and finished in 1830.
GramercyBuilding around Gramercy Park held off until the 1840s, late enough for the new townhouses to get indoor plumbing from the Croton Aqueduct, opened in 1842.
Midtown EastIn ZIP code 10022, on the East Side of Midtown, 90 percent of housing units are in buildings of 20 or more apartments.

A visit in
Manhattan.

Four steps from the call to a working microwave, the same in all 9 places of Manhattan.

What repairs cost

01A cup of water, timed
02The price before the work
03Usual parts on board
04Heating again before we leave

When a microwave
cannot wait in Manhattan.

Across Manhattan, the five problems where the microwave sparks, smokes, smells of burning, trips the power or runs with a door that has stopped sealing.

All 17 problems