Clinton Hill · Brooklyn Neighborhood
Glass & Glazing Services in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Clinton Hill asks for two different kinds of glazier on the same afternoon: one who can re-lead a stained-glass panel in a Clinton Avenue mansion, and one who can run two hundred identical casement units through a 1940s co-op block without holding up the elevator. NYC All Glass does both, with our own crew and our own measurements.
Clinton Hill Glass Company
Mansion Glass, Studio Light & Co-op Window Runs
The stretch of Clinton and Washington Avenues that people still call Brooklyn’s Gold Coast is not row-house territory, and that changes the work completely. These are freestanding and semi-detached houses, some of them timber-framed, built with openings far larger than a standard brownstone and finished with leaded, bevelled and stained glass in stair windows, vestibules and transoms. Our first recommendation on those is almost always repair rather than replacement: a sagging leaded panel can be taken out, re-leaded on the bench and reinstalled in its original frame, and the cost of doing that is usually less than the cost of a convincing reproduction. Where a panel really is beyond saving we match the glass type, the came profile and the glazing putty line rather than dropping in a modern insulated unit that will read wrong from the pavement. The timber houses bring their own problem, which is that a century of settlement leaves the frames out of plumb in two directions at once, so every opening gets templated on site.
A few blocks away the scale inverts. The large brick co-op and rental complexes put up around the Second World War for Navy Yard workers hold hundreds of near-identical steel and aluminium casement openings, and the sensible way to handle those is a staged building-wide programme: one line of units surveyed and priced, a mock-up apartment done first so the board can see it, then floors released in batches with the freight elevator booked and residents given dates. Pratt Institute’s orbit adds a third strand — studio and workshop buildings where the glazing exists to deliver even north light, and where a replacement unit with the wrong coating will quietly change how the room works for the people drawing in it. Along the Wallabout edge towards the Brooklyn Navy Yard we are mostly in former manufacturing buildings: wide steel sash, roof glazing, loading-bay screens and the kind of deadlines that come with a working film or fabrication tenant inside.
Clinton Hill Services
Glass Systems for Clinton Hill Properties
Whether the job is one bevelled stair-window panel on Clinton Avenue or a floor-by-floor casement replacement in a co-op block off Myrtle, it falls inside these six service lines.
Where We Work in Clinton Hill
Property Types We Serve
Clinton Hill’s building stock swings from single-family mansions to several-hundred-unit complexes within a few blocks, and the four types below cover nearly all of what we are asked to quote.
Clinton Hill Glass FAQs
Before Your Project Begins
Can my stained or leaded glass be repaired instead of replaced?
Usually, and usually for less money. A leaded panel that is bowing, rattling or losing cement can be removed, dismantled as far as it needs to be, re-leaded and reset in the original frame, which keeps the glass that gives the window its character. We will tell you honestly when a panel is past that point — badly corroded came or glass broken across a painted detail are the common reasons — and in that case we match glass type, came profile and putty line rather than substituting a modern sealed unit.
How does a building-wide window replacement work in a co-op here?
We survey one typical line of apartments, price that, and install a single mock-up unit so the board and the managing agent can see the finished sightline before committing the building. After approval the work is released in batches by floor or stack, with the freight elevator booked, protection laid in the corridors and residents given a dated schedule rather than a vague week. We carry the insurance certificates managing agents ask for and file them before the first crew arrives.
Will new glazing change the light in a studio or workshop?
It can, and it is worth deciding deliberately rather than by accident. Low-emissivity coatings and tinted interlayers both shift colour temperature slightly, which matters very little in a bedroom and a great deal to anyone painting, photographing or colour-matching. Tell us the room is a working studio and we will propose a glass make-up that holds the light neutral while still meeting the thermal requirement, and where it helps we will leave samples on site so you can look at them in the actual room.
Do you handle wide steel sash in the old manufacturing buildings?
Yes. Those openings are typically far wider than a residential frame, the steel is often original, and the practical choice is between reglazing the existing sections and replacing the whole screen. We measure the existing profiles, check how much of the steel is sound, and give you both numbers. For a tenant who cannot stop trading we stage it bay by bay and board any opening that has to stay open overnight. Call 718-758-5515 and we will come and look at it.