Mapleton Laundry Service – Pickup & Delivery, 24hr Quick Service

The layout of Mapleton’s residential blocks reveals the history of Brooklyn’s development in the 1920s and 1930s, when rows of semi-detached brick rowhouses and two-family homes were constructed to house working-class people living cheek-by-jowl, who assumed that their laundry would be done either manually or at one of the neighborhood’s wash houses. This assumption did not change. Houses located on 60th, 62nd, and 64th Streets between McDonald Avenue and 18th Avenue were constructed without laundry connections and have not been equipped with them. Current inhabitants coming from Mapleton’s large Bengali population and from the long-settled Italian and Jewish communities, as well as new people driven away from locations nearer to Manhattan, do laundry in the traditional way – in-between and on borrowed time.

ByNext covers the full residential grid of Mapleton, from the elevated D and N train corridor along New Utrecht Avenue down to the F and G train stop at Fort Hamilton Parkway, and across the side streets between McDonald Avenue and 18th Avenue. Pickup runs every day from 8 am to 8 pm, with bags collected at the front door or building entrance and returned cleaned and folded within a day or two. Best for: residents of Mapleton’s brick row houses and two-family homes without in-unit laundry access who commute into Manhattan via the D, N, F, or G trains.