Apartment Cleaning in Brooklyn from $151 | CleanWhale

CleanWhale cleans apartments and brownstones across Brooklyn, from Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg glass towers to Bed-Stuy row houses and Park Slope garden apartments. Apartment cleaning starts from $151 for a one-bedroom, and you can book online in about two minutes. Brooklyn is effectively two cleaning jobs sharing one borough, so we quote it two ways — by room for apartments, by floor for houses — and give you the full number before a crew is dispatched. No walk-through surcharge, no surprise line item at the door.

Brooklyn housing stock: two buildings, two jobs

More than half of New York's housing predates 1947, and Brooklyn carries a heavy share of it. A typical 1-4 family townhouse means brownstone or limestone over three or four floors, a stoop up to the parlor entrance, a garden level below, and no elevator — every flight is a real labor cost, not a rounding error. Inside you find the details that make pre-war Brooklyn worth cleaning carefully: marble mantels, plaster crown moldings, pocket doors that slide back into the wall, and floors that are usually shellacked herringbone or soft pine rather than modern polyurethane. Roughly three-quarters of the city's apartment buildings are steam-heated, so cast-iron radiators — and the dust that collects behind their covers — are normal here, not exotic. Then there is the other Brooklyn: new towers where units price almost exactly like Manhattan, with floor-to-ceiling glass, in-unit laundry, and a doorman downstairs. Brooklyn has the most even spread of home sizes of any borough and about 29.5% homeownership, which is exactly why one flat price could never fit both a studio over a shop and a four-story limestone.

Getting into your building

How we reach your rooms depends on which Brooklyn you live in. In a walk-up brownstone we work from keys, a lockbox code, or an intercom buzz-in — and for owners who travel, we hold keys under a signed handling policy so a recurring clean happens whether you are in town or not. We note whether the crew enters at the stoop-level parlor door or the garden-level service door, because that changes how much they carry up. In a Downtown or Williamsburg tower, cleaners check in with the concierge, use the service entrance rather than the front lobby, and book the freight elevator into its fixed weekday window — many buildings ban weekend moves and heavy-load use, and crews pad the cab. Co-op and condo boards, common in Brooklyn Heights and along the historic streets, usually want a Certificate of Insurance before anyone works in the unit: a $1M baseline naming the building as additional insured, meaning the co-op and managing agent. Some boards require limits up to higher multiples; the cert is typically issued within 30 days, so send us the building's requirements when you book.

What we clean here

Every job runs our standard checklist — kitchen, bathrooms, floors, dusting, surfaces, trash. In Brooklyn we add the things this housing stock actually needs:

• Cast-iron radiators — wiped down and cleaned behind the covers, where pre-war dust hides.
• Marble mantels and hall tile — polished marble and hex tile cleaned with pH-safe products, never anything acidic.
• Original floors — shellacked herringbone and soft pine cleaned damp, not soaked, so the finish stays intact.
• Stair flights — in a three- or four-story house the flights are counted as part of the quote, not sprung on you.
• Floor-to-ceiling glass in the towers — interior sides cleaned streak-free.

Pricing

For apartments, cleaning starts from $151 for a one-bedroom, $179 for two bedrooms, and $207 for three bedrooms. Houses are quoted by floor, because stairs and a garden level are labor the by-room grid can't capture. Sales tax on this job is 8.875%, set by the Brooklyn job address. Recurring plans — weekly, twice-monthly, or monthly — carry a standing discount off the one-time rate, and the same crew comes back so nothing has to be re-explained.

FAQ

Do you charge extra for the stairs in my brownstone?

We count stair flights up front and quote the house by floor. You see the number that includes the stairs before you book — there is no per-flight surprise added later.

Can you handle a COI for my Brooklyn Heights co-op?

Yes. Send us your board's requirements and we issue a Certificate of Insurance naming the building, co-op, and managing agent as additional insured, at a $1M baseline or the higher limit some boards require, usually within 30 days.

What about my cast-iron radiators?

They're part of a standard clean here. We wipe them and clean behind the covers where dust settles, without scrubbing off the paint.

Do you clean garden-level apartments?

We do. We note whether we enter at the garden service door or the stoop, and clean the lower level the same as any other.

How does recurring pricing work?

Pick weekly, twice-monthly, or monthly and the price drops from the one-time rate, with the same crew returning each visit.

We clean throughout the borough — book online for Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Williamsburg, Downtown Brooklyn, Bed-Stuy, and Cobble Hill. Get your flat rate and pick a time in a couple of minutes.