Apartment Cleaning in Park Slope — from $151

CleanWhale cleans apartments and whole brownstones across Park Slope, Brooklyn — the garden-level rental, the parlor floor with its double parlors, or all four levels of a rowhouse from stoop to roof deck. One-bedroom cleanings start from $151, and you can book online in a couple of minutes. Because this is a whole-house district more than an apartment district, we quote by the floor, not by the bedroom.

The housing stock here

Park Slope holds NYC's largest historic district — roughly 2,575 buildings over about 40 blocks, designated in 1973 and extended in 2012 and 2016. What you find behind the stoops is Italianate and Second Empire on the older blocks, then Queen Anne, Renaissance Revival, Romanesque Revival, and the Victorian mansions along Prospect Park West. These are solid attached rowhouses, not detached houses — a distinction that matters for how a crew moves through a home. In the late 1960s and 70s, young buyers took brownstones for $15,000 to $35,000 and returned them from rooming-house state to one- and two-family homes, which is why so much work here is whole-house rather than cut-up apartments. A typical rowhouse runs four levels — garden, parlor, second, third — on a single staircase, with the stoop leading to the parlor and a separate door under the stoop to the garden unit. Very often it is an owner's triplex over a rented garden apartment. The detail is the point: multi-flight staircases with turned balusters and newel posts, wide plank or inlaid parquet, plaster cornices and ceiling medallions, pocket doors between double parlors, tall parlor windows with interior shutters, and marble mantels — frequently one in every parlor-floor room. So when a client says "three-bedroom" in the Slope, they often mean a four-level, roughly 3,000-square-foot house with two staircases, three marble fireplaces, and a backyard.

Getting into your building

There is no concierge on most Slope blocks, so access is by key, lockbox, or a client at home. For owners who travel, we keep key handling simple and documented, and a lockbox on the garden-level door under the stoop is the usual solution. Small brownstone co-ops here are self-managed corporations that ask for a certificate of insurance regularly; the strictest tend to be the large Prospect Park West houses. We carry the standard $1M COI naming the building as additional insured, and some boards require limits up to higher multiples — we issue the cert, usually within 30 days of the request. The 10-to-14-step stoop is its own access point, and in winter it is a road-salt problem we handle separately from the interior.

What we clean here

Beyond the shared apartment checklist — kitchen, baths, floors, dusting, trash — Park Slope homes ask for a few specific things:

• Polished marble mantels, cleaned with pH-neutral products so the stone is not etched
• Cast-iron steam radiators, including behind the covers, since roughly three-quarters of NYC buildings are steam-heated
• Original wide-plank and inlaid parquet floors, treated for their finish rather than wet-mopped flat
• The stoop, washed down separately, and the garden-level yard and parlor-floor deck
• Stair flights counted as a pricing factor — a two-staircase house is more work than a one-floor apartment

Pricing

Apartment cleaning starts from $151 for a one-bedroom, $179 for two bedrooms, and $207 for three bedrooms. Sales tax at this Park Slope job address is 8.875%. For whole-house brownstone work we quote by counting the floors, staircases, and fireplaces, since a "three-bedroom" here can be a four-level house. Recurring plans — weekly, twice-monthly, or monthly — carry a discount off the one-time rate, and the recurring economics are among the best in the borough for a home you keep in steady shape.

FAQ

Do you clean a whole brownstone, not just one apartment?

Yes. Most of our Slope work is whole-house — garden through third floor, both staircases, every marble mantel — priced by the floor rather than the bedroom count.

How do you get in if I'm traveling?

Key, lockbox, or you at home. A lockbox on the under-stoop garden door is the common setup for owners who are away; we log each key handoff.

Will my co-op's COI request be a problem?

No. We carry the standard $1M certificate naming the building as additional insured and can meet higher limits some boards require, usually issued within 30 days.

Do you clean the stoop?

Yes, as a separate item from the interior. In winter it is mostly a salt-and-grit job on 10 to 14 steps.

What about the radiators and original floors?

We clean cast-iron steam radiators, including behind the covers, and treat plank and parquet floors according to their finish rather than soaking them.

We also clean nearby in Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, and Cobble Hill. Book your Park Slope cleaning online, from $151.