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 SoHo.

Landmark rules cover nearly every block of SoHo, whose cast-iron district got city protection in 1973 and a larger footprint in 2010 that took in most of West Broadway.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Manhattan
Three things about SoHo
10 repairs we do here

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What SoHo does
to an ice machine.

By the mid-19th century, grand hotels and theaters had made Broadway between Canal and Houston Streets the entertainment center of New York.

Central Park has reached 100°F or higher on three consecutive days twice, on July 8 to 10, 1993, and August 26 to 28, 1948.

New York City grades a restaurant B for a sanitary inspection score of 14 to 27 points and C for 28 points or more.

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.

Tower living

A tower's lobby bar, rooftop lounge and residents' club often share modular ice machines whose condensers sit on the roof, and a long remote line that loses its charge or its fan shows up downstairs as a head that freezes slowly and a bin that never fills.

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.

A visit in
SoHo.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine in SoHo, 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 SoHo.

In SoHo 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