Cosmopolitan Eyecare

I went to see Dr. Chu, the optometrist, for an eye check up. She is wonderful, friendly, warm, and efficient. The office is clean and conveniently located. She did a great job explaining to me why my eyes tend to be on the slightly drier side, and gave me some tips (related to blinking! things I never think about) on how to prevent the eye dryness. I would highly recommend this place and Dr. Chu for eyecare.
I don’t have glasses or contacts since laser eye surgery several years ago, and hopefully it stays that way! But if I ever did have a need I would come here.

I went to Cosmopolitan Eyecare for an eye exam, and while the appointment was fine, I woke up the next day with an EYE INFECTION. Upon returning to Cosmopolitan, they (receptionist, Office Manager, and Dr.) agreed that I had an eye infection, but would not examine my eye without me paying for another visit. I found that to be unacceptable. For someone who does not get eye infections, it is hard to believe that between seeing the eye doctor (without any sign of infection) at 5:00PM and going to sleep at 10:00PM I developed an infection.
It is VERY LIKELY that resting my face on their (dirty) equipment caused this infection. If Cosmopolitan had at least taken steps to rectify their malpractice, I would have been satisfied, instead they wanted to charge me for another appointment. I will be seeing another doctor.

12-​2-​2015
Simone is the best. I was in a panic. Traveling to NY I left behind my 30 day replacement pair of contacts. I called Lens Crafter they transferred me to the in house Doctors ofc. Simone was So! Helpful. I had my Doctor sent me my prescription via email and I took it with me to this office. I did call ahead with my prescription information. When I got there they had them ready with my name on them. Now I can clearly.
When your in NYC and needs some help, please «contact» this office they are helpful.
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STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE! What a ripoff! So I give them my insurance information over the phone they tell me I’m good to go. No co pay which I had confirmed with my insurance anyway. Then I get to the office and all of a sudden what was just supposed to be a very basic routine eye exam has turned into some bullshit high tech fuckery that will now cost me 70 dollars or if I want there version of basic it would be 40. They don’t tell me any of this over the phone and wait till I’m in the room to spring it on me. Not only that but the 40 dollar exam would leave my vision severely blurry for at least 3 hours?!? What the actual fuck. The receptionist or assistant or whatever the hell she was knew she was completely full of shit and trying to rip me off and desperately trying to sell this unnecessary expensive eye exam. Needless to say I said no, got up and walked out of the office. I then made an appointment for the next day with an office in TriBeCa. no copay. Very simple and thorough eye exam. took 25 mins done. And btw the way I’m only mildly near sighted which makes that bullshit exam they were trying to push even more unnecessary! Stay away from this place! RIPOFFFFFFFF

Dr. Chu and the front office staff were great. Very convenient and friendly. Visited for an eye exam and contacts. In and out in less than an hour and contacts received within a day. Will continue to visit.

Fantastic, efficient and friendly. Will go back here even though it’s a bit out of the way for me. Dr. Dr Chaudri is wonderful and really knows what she is doing. And the support staff are just terrific.

I was extremely happy with the service and prices here! To be honest, I expected to have to overpay since it is in Manhattan, but the price of an eye exam was very reasonable. I don’t have vision insurance but they gave me a significant discount for showing just my regular health insurance card.
When it came time to order contacts, they matched the price of 1800contacts without me even asking. I will definitely be returning next year!

The optometrist seemed competent and friendly but the administrative staff was not very polite. Also, they attempt to provide you with a range of optional services that increase the cost of your visit. Unfortunately this appears to be common practice in optometry these days so it’s best if you know exactly what you need.

Definitely will not be coming back here. Quick exam that led to a wrong prescription. When I picked up my glasses, I couldn’t wear them for more than 10 mins. I went back to have it checked by Dr Chaudri. She first tried to tell me that maybe it was made wrong by Lenscrafters. The optician doubled checked to make sure the glasses were made according to the prescription. Then she insisted that I need to let my eyes adjust to the stronger Rx. Disappointing.

I’ve been seeing Dr. Chaudri since she was at the Fifth Ave Lenscrafter (they moved here) for over an year and half.
Appointments are pretty efficient. They have great, new technology to scan the retina — there are added expenses to what is covered by insurance, but it’s a reasonable detective expense considering how much we use our eyes/​computers these days. I do make sure to ask how much the expenses are. I also got fitted for two contact lenses (a weekly and a daily). The Dr. is honest and helpful with her assessments. More proactive than the other optometrists that I’ve seen over the years to the point where I’m recommending her to my friends!
The office also gets a gold star for this experience: I had ordered my contacts right before an intl trip and Sunday was the last day I could pick them up. I was stuck in traffic from downtown so I called. They had no trouble with staying slightly past their store hours on a Sunday! I ended up getting there earlier but their attitude counts!

One and done for me. The exam went fine but these ladies are aggressive charging extras. They have some fancy retinal machine that does extra scanning they call an optomap– insurance certainly doesnt cover but you arent really given the choice ahead of time. They charged me for a contact lens fitting and did no such work– just gave me the same prescription anyone else has for 20 years. It’s got to be tough with the rent on 6^th Ave in the middle of midtown but you have to vote with your feet as the customer.

Very nice and helpful staff! I was cleaning my contacts in my office which is located across the street from them and one of my lenses tore in half. I went to Cosmopolitan Eyecare to see if they could help me out with a new one even though I’m not a patient there. They were very helpful and just told me to call my eye doctor and have her send over the prescription. Not only did I get one new lens, but she threw in a new pair just in case! It would’ve been a huge Thanks again ladies!

Compared to other clinics, the machines are really new and advanced.

Finding new health care providers when you move to a new city isn’t always the easiest task, but I lucked out finding Dr. Shira Nissel. She was nice, professional, listened to my concerns and didn’t try to push onto me unnecessary procedures or tests.