New York Cleaners
“A no-fuss neighborhood dry cleaner, laundry, and tailor tucked into a Georgetown row house on P Street”
Verified listing · Updated June 2026
Phone
(202) 333-1297Customer Experience
New York Cleaners is the kind of unglamorous, genuinely useful business that a neighborhood actually runs on. It sits behind a green awning and sign in a buttery-yellow row house at 3239 P Street, sharing the block with the Lantern Bookshop on one side and Anthony’s Tuxedos on the other — a quietly practical anchor on an otherwise browse-and-linger stretch of Georgetown.
There’s nothing flashy about it, and that’s the point. This is a counter-service garment shop in a converted Georgetown townhouse, the place you duck into with an armful of shirts on the way up Wisconsin Avenue. For a part of town where most storefronts are selling something aspirational, New York Cleaners does the opposite: it keeps your everyday wardrobe in working order.
Claim to Fame
If the shop has a calling card, it’s range — it’s a do-it-all cleaner rather than a single-trick shop. The core is dry cleaning, including same-day service when you need a suit or dress turned around fast, alongside wash-and-fold laundry and drop-off service for the weekly pile. Beyond cleaning, it also handles alterations, mending, and repairs, so it doubles as a neighborhood tailor for a hem, a take-in, or a popped seam, and it offers carpet and upholstery stain treatment as well.
That combination — clean it, wash it, fix it — is what makes it a standby for Georgetown residents who’d rather hand off the whole errand in one stop than split it across town.
Preparing for Your Visit
Call ahead to confirm hours and same-day turnaround. New York Cleaners doesn’t post its hours online, so it’s worth a quick call to (202) 333-1297 before you make the trip — especially if you’re counting on a same-day pickup.
It’s a cash-and-cards counter operation, not an app, so plan to drop off and pick up in person. As with the rest of this stretch of Georgetown, street parking on P and Wisconsin is tight; there’s bike parking nearby, and a garage in the Wisconsin Avenue or M Street corridor is the safer bet if you’re driving in with a season’s worth of dry cleaning.