A restaurant back room with a modular ice machine on its bin and gray slab cabinets, seen close at the ice machine's bin door.

Manhattan, New York Metro

Ice machine repair in Greenwich Village.

The Village's landmark district spans over 50 blocks in its north and west, running as far as 14th Street.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Manhattan
Three things about Greenwich Village
10 repairs we do here

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What Greenwich Village does
to an ice machine.

Much of the neighborhood west of Greenwich Street was built on landfill, since that street once ran along the Hudson River shoreline.

July 1993 brought Central Park 20 days of 90°F or hotter, the most in any month on record there.

In the blackout of July 13 and 14, 1977, lightning strikes on substations left all of New York City except the Rockaways without power overnight.

All of New York Metro

Older housing stock

Older wiring may put an ice machine's compressor on a circuit shared with other bar equipment, and a breaker that trips each time the harvest starts is left off and reported rather than reset again and again; at a burning smell, switch the breaker off.

Small cafes and back bars

Behind a narrow bar the undercounter ice machine is boxed in by coolers and a sink, and an air-cooled unit forced to breathe its own warm exhaust runs long cycles and drops thin cubes, so the clearance at its front grille is checked before the sealed system.

Home bars with clear ice

Kitchen designers often place the clear-ice machine far from any floor drain, which means a drain pump hidden in the cabinet, and the pump's check valve and vent line are the first stop when water collects under a spotless island.

A visit in
Greenwich Village.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

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 Greenwich Village.

In Greenwich Village as anywhere, these four call for the ice machine to be shut down and left that way for our visit: water spreading from it or its drain across a walkway or toward an outlet, a burning or hot electrical smell, a breaker that trips when it starts, or a hiss or gas smell at a machine charged with flammable R-290.

All 17 problems