Apartment Cleaning in Downtown Brooklyn | From $151

CleanWhale cleans apartments across Downtown Brooklyn's high-rises, from studios at 300 Ashland Place to one-bedrooms in the Brooklyn Tower at 9 DeKalb Avenue. Rates start at $151 for a one-bedroom, and of the ten neighborhoods we cover, recurring cleaning here is logistically the easiest to run. You can book online in a couple of minutes and hold the same cleaner every visit.

The housing stock, and why it cleans the way it does

Downtown Brooklyn is a rare thing in this city: an almost entirely new residential district. Before the 2004 rezoning this was a business and civic core with almost no housing. Since then more than 27,000 units have been delivered, with roughly 8,000 more under construction; 2025 alone brought a record 4,833 units, about 65% above the prior 2022 record of 2,925. That history shows up in the apartments. Instead of the pre-war fabric of most of the borough, the stock here is standardized and modern: the 93-floor Brooklyn Tower, 11 Hoyt Street's 480 condos across 57 floors, 240 Willoughby's 463 units, 505 State Street's 441, Eighty Nine DeKalb, and One Boerum Place all share a similar interior language. In practice that means central HVAC rather than cast-iron radiators, so there are no radiator covers to clean behind and none of the silver "radiator bronze" paint you find in older Brooklyn. Floors are engineered plank or vinyl, not shellacked herringbone or soft pine, which changes the products and pads we bring. The one constant is glass: floor-to-ceiling windows in nearly every unit, plus glass balcony and terrace railings on the setbacks. Interior glass cleaning is the single most requested add-on on this page.

Getting into your building

Access here is the simplest we handle anywhere. Lobbies are staffed 24 hours, so for owners who travel, keys go to the front desk and a cleaner is authorized on the resident list rather than passed a spare in a hallway. Many buildings run resident portals like BuildingLink, where you or we can reserve the freight elevator for a fixed window; crews use the loading dock and service entrance rather than the front lobby, and pad the freight cab. These towers carry standard building COI requirements naming the building as additional insured, and we issue certificates ahead of the first visit as a matter of course. Because almost everything is elevator-served, the stair-flight count that drives pricing in walk-up neighborhoods rarely applies here.

What we clean here

Every visit covers the shared checklist: kitchen, bathrooms, floors, dusting, surfaces, and trash. On top of that, Downtown Brooklyn apartments get a few things specific to the stock:

• Interior floor-to-ceiling glass, wiped streak-free where reachable from inside.
• In-unit washer/dryer areas, standard in these buildings, wiped down and lint cleared.
• Balcony and terrace glass railings and hard-surface floors on setback units.
• Central HVAC vents and returns dusted in place of radiator covers.
• Engineered plank and vinyl floors cleaned with pH-safe products, no standing water.

Pricing

Flat rates: from $151 for a one-bedroom, $179 for two bedrooms, and $207 for three bedrooms. Sales tax at this job address is 8.875%, applied on top. Recurring plans, weekly, twice-monthly, or monthly, carry a discount off the one-time rate, which is where the easy building access here pays off: once you're on a portal and the freight window is set, every future visit runs on rails.

FAQ

Do you clean the inside of the floor-to-ceiling windows?

Yes, interior glass is our most common add-on in these towers and we clean every pane reachable from inside the unit. Exterior faces on high floors are handled by building crews, not us.

Can you reserve the freight elevator for me?

If your building uses BuildingLink or a similar portal, we can book the freight window directly, or coordinate with the front desk if you prefer to reserve it yourself.

I travel a lot. How do you get in?

We're added to your building's authorized-visitor list and pick up the key at the 24-hour front desk, so nothing depends on you being home.

Do you need a COI for my building?

Most Downtown Brooklyn buildings ask for a standard certificate naming the building as additional insured. Send us the requirement and we issue it before the first clean.

Is there a charge for stairs?

Almost never here, since these are elevator buildings. Stair-flight counts only affect pricing in walk-up neighborhoods.

We also clean apartments in neighboring Fort Greene, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and Prospect Heights. Ready to schedule? Book online and lock in the same cleaner for every visit.