A bar with an undercounter ice machine and sage green cabinets, seen close at the ice machine's bin door.

New York Metro, NY

Ice machine repair in Brooklyn.

9 cities and neighborhoods across Brooklyn, part of New York Metro — 3 with a page on what that place does to an ice machine.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

9 places covered
3 with a page
10 repairs we do here

Book a visit

Three short steps, about a minute.

or call (844) 410-9163

What Brooklyn does
to an ice machine.

Where ice machines sit in Brooklyn: older housing stock, mixed housing, small cafes and back bars.

All of New York Metro

Older housing stock

Old commercial buildings turned into bars and restaurants often have a single aging supply serving the whole back of house, and an ice machine on it fills its trough short whenever the dish area draws water, which shows as small or partial sheets of cubes.

Mixed housing

A landlord who inherited an ice machine with a building may have no manual and no service record, so the visit starts by reading the model plate, finding the maker's cleaning schedule and writing down what has been done.

Small cafes and back bars

Where one short counter serves coffee, drinks and ice, the scoop tends to live inside the bin, and a handle touched by hands all day is how slime starts on the bin walls, so a clean cycle and a scoop holder solve more than any part.

Where we go
in Brooklyn.

9 cities and neighborhoods across Brooklyn, part of New York Metro, 3 of them with a page on what that place does to an ice machine. The same visit in each.

9places covered 8counties in New York Metro 10repairs

All of New York Metro

Brooklyn Heights

Montague Street's restaurants and bars keep ice machines in narrow back rooms, and a brownstone with a home bar may have an undercounter unit whose water line runs through old walls to a shutoff far from the machine.

DUMBO

Dumbo's cobblestone streets have also drawn scrutiny: a 2017 report found they did not meet the Americans with Disabilities Act and needed to be repaired or removed.

Park Slope

Park Slope's restaurants on Fifth and Seventh Avenues run modular ice machines in cramped storefronts, and a family with a basement bar in a brownstone may keep a small undercounter unit that works hard only at parties.

Bay Ridge

Bay Ridge is bounded by Sunset Park, Dyker Heights, the Narrows and the Belt Parkway, with Fort Hamilton Army Base and the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge to the south.

Carroll Gardens

Carroll Gardens has long-running Italian restaurants and bocce games alongside French-run spots such as Bar Tabac and Café Luluc.

Cobble Hill

On Court and Smith Streets, Cobble Hill's main shopping streets, generations-old Italian meat markets and barber shops share blocks with newer restaurants and cafes.

Ditmas Park

Cortelyou Road, the shopping street of Ditmas Park, has delis, bars, coffee shops, restaurants and the Flatbush Food Co-op.

Greenpoint

Greenpoint, often called Little Poland, has many Polish restaurants, markets and businesses serving its large Polish community.

Williamsburg

Of the sugar refineries that once stood in Williamsburg, only the old Domino Sugar refinery remains.

A visit in
Brooklyn.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine, the same in all 9 places of Brooklyn.

What repairs cost

01One cycle, watched closely
02The cause, then the price
03Parts that travel with us
04A harvest before we go

When an ice machine
cannot wait in Brooklyn.

Across Brooklyn, the four problems where an ice machine puts water across a walkway or near power, smells of burning wiring, trips its breaker or hisses and smells of gas.

All 17 problems