Ball Sq. laundromat

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

This was news to me, so I bet it's news to some of you:

The laundromat on the corner of Broadway and Lowden Ave (whose proper name may or may not be "Ball Sq. Laundromat" is apparently "Broadway Dry Cleaning") does not show any posted hours, except for the wash'n'fold counter which closes at 7pm on weeknights.

However, I finally made it over there tonight at an hour when I was pretty sure they WOULD be open, and the cheerful Brazilian lady at the wash'n'fold told me that the main storefront is open until 10pm... but there is a back entrance, around the corner on Lowden, to a section of it that is kept open 24 hours. Quarters for the wash: $2 per load (I haven't priced the dryers yet).

Note that I've lived on Lowden Ave. since September and have been continuing all this time to drive back to the LaundroMax on Somerville Ave., where I used to go from my last apartment in Union Sq., just because I liked it well enough and knew it would reliably stay open until at least 11pm. But now -- 24-hour laundromat walking distance from my current place? DSIA.

Comments

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. I have laundry at home these days, but for most of the time I've lived in the area, I've found myself muttering under my breath roughly every time I run low on clean clothes about what a hick town Boston is, to not have any all-night laundromats. Heck, I may start doing my laundry there just on general principles, to thank them for being open.

So there's one marker of civilization finally arrived. Now if only we could get some late-night public transit, all-night restaurants, and maybe even that pinnacle of civilized life as I used to know it in Seattle, an all night bookstore....

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you're not a closet new yorker?

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

About ten years ago, I mentioned to a friend that I was going to a week-long conference in New York. "Oh, I'm going to that too. Why don't you stay at my dad's place with me. It's close, and you can bring your bike and really get to know the city." So I spent a week living in a brownstone on W 82nd between Columbus and Central Park West, getting up early each morning to bike around Central Park, then off to the Javits, stopping at Zabar's for coffee and a bagel on the way. Spend my day at the conference, bike back in the afternoon (while I found bicycling in New York far safer than in Boston, I wasn't quite up to trying it after dark), and spend the evening doing all kinds of interesting things courtesy of a public transit system that actually works.

So "closet?" I don't know. But I would totally love to be a New Yorker — if only someone would offer me a a $200k/year job there.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Thanks for ...

coming clean about this.

*puts on sunglasses*

YEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH

(yeah, I know. Usually my humor is a little dryer.)

[lac.livejournal.com]

The dryers are a quarter for 10 minutes...I assume it's the same during off hours.

That 24 hour thing is, I think, one of the best kept secrets in the neighborhood. I am not even sure how I happen to know about it.

[smammy]

Think it's legal for them to stay open all night? Somerville is pretty strict about that...

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's why it's not advertised! They seem to keep a low profile about it. Even the lights were dimmed (though the door was open and the machines all still running.

[smammy]

Well then, thanks for blowing their cover! :D

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

I didn't get good results dry cleaning with them lately.. Zoots prices for poor overall quality