Betty Convenience Laundromat

Screw this dump. The settings on a washer was set to cold and ended up using boiling hot water. All our clothes are dyed blue from the denim and ruined. Told the attendant that the washer was broken so that they could put it out of order so it doesn’t happen to someone else and she just argued with me that the clothes are cold even though there was literally steam coming out of the washer and when you put your hand in the air was hot and you can clearly see everything that was white or a lighter color is now blue.

This place is great! It’s on my block and never too crowded. There are always washers and dryers open. The coin machines work. I’ve never had a washer or dryer malfunction or anything like that. There are big carts with wheels to transfer your clothes. Super convenient!

Doing laundry is always a chore, but it’s nice to be able to take care of it in a clean and functional laundromat. Betty’s hits both those points – I’ve been twice now and haven’t had problems with broken machines. There are usually two women doing drop-​off washes, and they are very friendly. The washing machines range in size from small, medium, and large, and the small costs $ 1.75 while the medium is $ 2.75 (not sure about the large, sorry!). Average wash cycle takes about 30 minutes, and the dyers are 25 cents per 8 minutes – pretty standard prices. There is an ATM as well as a change machine, and a machine for buying detergent and other laundry needs. I’ve gone weekdays after 8 and it was busy but people were able to get machines. The drop off service seems reasonably priced and turn around is standard. I didn’t get the creepy/​weird vibe that some laundromats carry with them, and there is a small (3 seat) waiting area with folding tables. A standard laundromat indeed – see you on laundry day!

This is probably the best laundry service I’ve had in NYC and the most affordable.
My experience may be unique but my interactions with the staff are always pleasant. The head laundress teaches me spanish words when I drop-​off and pick-​up.
Pro-​tips:
— Treat the person who does your laundry with the utmost kindness and respect, your service might improve.
— Call ahead about picking up your laundry, if it’s not done they’ll hustle to have in done in the next 2 hours ;)
As for doing my laundry there, meh.
I run home between loads or grab a burrito @ Villa Pancho.

Dropped off a small load of clothes in a cloth shopping bag. For some reason they put the bag through the wash and it got messed up in the dryer. they gave my clothes back in a plastic bag without saying a word. when i brought it up they just tolerated me til i got fed up and left, no apology or intention to make it up somehow. sure it was just a cheap cloth grocery bag, but i needed it! anyway, i hate this place now.

Neighborhood laundry spot. It’s usually hard to find a washer, but if you know when to go it’s usually empty.
Wash in the EARLY morning or between 6 – 8 at night. Awkward I know, but so worth it not to have to fight for an empty washer.
They can do your laundry for you. But if you have an aversion to strangers touching your delicates (like me), it’s not a terrible place to do your laundry.

Open pretty late for a laundromat– 8pm. I used to come here when I first moved to the neighborhood. But I found a more clean and more spacious laundromat down the street. However it caught on fire so I was forced to come back due to the inconvenience. Being in a pinch for clean clothes it’ll do. Seating is limited and scrunched in between tables. Not exactly the most comfortable seating. Smallest machine costs $ 1.75. So it’s not expensive. Bring quarters or just have singles on you to exchange at the machine near the door. They have TVs that play non stop telemundo which is always entertaining. The women who work here are nice. Carts are also limited so ikea bags will probably be your best friend.

Super affordable but it’s on the small side so it gets packed pretty easily. Luckily, it’s open til 11 and is usually pretty empty around 9pm if you wanna get the last load of the night in.

Disorganized and unreliable. Multiple times now I’ve dropped off laundry and 48 hours later it’s still not done. Too many different people working there, too much laundry. And apparently it was my fault for not letting them know when I needed it (this was after going back earlier in the day, and, being faced with unwashed laundry, being told to come back at 8:30…)
I really wish they’d get their act together as there’s not many other decent laundromats around, but as it stands I might just have to go back to doing it myself.

The price for a small load went from 1.25 to 2.00 in a year. I blame gentrification. It’s still a million times better than Atlantis down on bedford. The owner and his family are super nice. It’s my cute neighborhood laundromat and I love it. Don’t forget to get coffee at Civil Service and a cookie at Cinnamon Girl. Support your neighbors.

Convenient location, not the state of the arts but serve Its purpose for cleaning my clothes (:

What can I say? This place is a basic laundromat. The prices are pretty low, it is clean and the drop off is 75¢/lb (which is the cheapest I’ve seen in bk). There’s usually a wait for drop off so don’t expect it quickly. They open around 7 – 8 in the morning and are open until around 11 at night. Change machine and atm are both located inside.

Worst laundry place ever. There are two women. One is super sweet and the other with glasses just confirmed that I will never go back. She made a big stink when I didn’t have my ticket and gave a phone number instead. She would only speak in Spanish to me which I don’t understand. Halfway through our transaction she just started helping someone else while I was standing there waiting. Finally, after doing her job and getting my laundry and I paid, she gave me all of my change back in nickels and dimes saying she had no quarters for me. So rude. I called later to ask for the managers number and she hung up on me. Ridiculous. This is NYC, I can (and will) easily find someone else to wash my laundry.

The first time I dropped off my laundry, I spoke to the owner and confirmed the day I’d be returning for it because I was going away for the weekend. When I came in the evening on that day, not only were my clothes not ready, but she accused me of not speaking enough Spanish to have understood the original conversation. I may have a slight accent, but I’m fluent. It was insulting and she didn’t apologize.
The second time, I spoke with a different employee, again confirming the day (this time in English, to minimize difficulty). She wrote it down, I went on my way. Came back at 10 pm on the agreed-​upon day, and the owner (again) tells me she doesn’t have it ready, the other employee didn’t tell her anything about it.
How disorganized is this place?! I wish there were other places close by, but I am certainly not going back. Don’t go if you need your clothes in less than 4 or 5 days!

I’m sorry to have to knock off a star, but it’s now been that the last three times I’ve dropped my stuff there that I’ve experienced some fudginess. Last time I showed up at the time they said it would be done. It had been lost. They found it – thank christ. They said I should come back in a little bit. A couple hours went by and I came back and they hadn’t even started it yet. This is after I waited three days already.
They’re very sweet and do a good job with cleaning and folding, but I don’t want to have to wait half a week or more when I can take it anywhere else and have it done in just a day or two.

The two women I’ve dealt with here for drop-​off service were total sweethearts, and the price is certainly right…$ 8 for a hamper full. They also asked me if I wanted my whites and colors separated, and did a better job than anywhere I’ve been to in Manhattan. I noticed one of the reviews saying that they close at 8pm, but when I asked, they said they closed at 11pm. In any event, my load was done 6 hours after I dropped it off. I’ll definitely be back.

DEFINITELY the best laundromat in the area. Much more spacious, cleaner, more machines than any others in the area. There’s no free wifi like those fancy ones but you DO get to watch a crackhead sing and dance to salsa music (although they don’t even speak spanish) and if that’s not entertainment I don’t know what is. The people who go there seems like decent people– middle-​aged women, normal looking young people (and by normal I mean not annoying or gross). Unlike the ones on Nostrand where I either get hit on by creepsters or have to put up with the loud trashtalk from area teens. I can’t wait to try their drop-​off service.

Upgrading my review to four stars after having discovered how totally awesome their drop-​off service is. I don’t know how they fold my shirts so well, or how they get it all to smell so good, but that’s what I pay them for.

I totally agree with Steve that this is a pretty standard laundromat, but that because every other laundromat within a couple block radius is wayyyyy bajankity, Betty Convenience seems like a wet dream.
After having gone to the laundromat on Nostrand/​Lafayette block, a bit closer to me, and finding the change machine broken, half the lights off, and the owner apparently stepped out for an indeterminate period of time… I wheeled my massive bag of laundry down the block in the snow, having looked at the Unilocal app to see the next nearest laundry. Unilocal,you never let me down.
Betty Convenience is quaint if nothing else — not the most state of the art, but the machines dried my clothes with only three quarters per machine, and the laundromat in my old hood took at least four, if not five, and even then, still left all my yoga pants wet for some reason.
The laundress lady here is really nice, and you get to watch telemundo the whole time, of course (apparently ALL music videos on this station include Usher, Drake, or Nicki Minaj, fyi). It wasn’t crowded here last night between 6−730pm, and I felt like I could have left my things in the washer and slunk down the street to One Last Shag or Black Swan with no issues re: property theft. But in fact, what I did do, was tool around on the Unilocal app, looking for the nearest bars, liquor stores, and taquerias — and discovered an amazing taqueria right next door to the laundry. Just saying, you should grab a burrito at Villa Pancho, if you, like me, are doing laundry at dinner time in this area of Bed Stuy.
This will be my spot for laundry, for sure. All the usual ammenidies and very nice customer service. I did feel a bit badly when laundress lady was sitting there folding someone’s ratty old g strings — but she did it like a champ. I didn’t know people even still WORE those — it took me a sec to remember what they were called. Welcome to the neighborhood.