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New clients
10 % off
Code FIRST10
Ten percent off the first visit, whichever service you start with. The easiest way to see how we work before you commit to a schedule.
Most flexible
5 % off
Code FLEX5
Give us a four-hour window instead of a fixed hour and we can route more efficiently. That saving comes back to you on every visit.
Biggest saving
$30 off
Code RESET30
Thirty dollars off a first deep clean or a move-in / move-out clean, the two jobs where the difference is most visible when you walk back in.
Your neighbors
Same buildings, same walk-ups, same narrow kitchens as yours. Unedited reviews from people a few streets away.
Tamara B.
Brooklyn Heights · bi-weekly
I stopped dreading Saturdays. Every other week the kitchen ends up looking better than when I moved in.
Andre M.
Astoria · move-out clean
Booked on short notice before an inspection. Got the full deposit back, no argument from the landlord.
Priya S.
Long Island City · weekly
They bring their own products and they are quiet. I work from home and barely noticed them.
Daniel R.
Park Slope · one-time deep clean
Deep clean before a family visit. The oven and the grout looked new. Worth every dollar.
Marcus L.
Upper West Side · bi-weekly
Fragrance-free products, no questions asked. That alone made them the only option for us.
How it works
From the pile you have been avoiding to a home you are glad to walk into.
Work ran long, the weekend disappeared, and now the kitchen and both bathrooms are asking for time you genuinely do not have.
Size, bathrooms, and how long it has been. Sixty seconds online or one phone call, and a flat quote appears before anyone is booked.
A screened, trained cleaner arrives with everything needed and works top to bottom through the written list, so nothing gets skipped or improvised.
Floors done, surfaces done, everything back where it belongs. Nothing left on your list except deciding what to do with the evening.
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Rachel Y. called us from Jackson Heights on a Tuesday night. She had just turned her spare bedroom into a home office, and the contractor had left three weeks earlier. The boxes were gone. The dust was not. It was on the window blinds, on top of the door frames, inside the closet, and in a fine grey film across a brand new desk she had not even used yet. She had wiped the desk twice. By morning it was grey again.
That is construction dust, and it is the single most common thing New Yorkers call us about that they cannot fix themselves. It is finer than household dust, so it stays airborne for days and settles after you finish cleaning. You cannot beat it with a cloth and a spray bottle. It takes a HEPA vacuum, a top-down order of work, and wiping the same surface more than once, hours apart. We did Rachel's office on a Saturday. She emailed on Monday to say she had worked a full day in there without sneezing once. If your renovation involved a building put up before 1978, the EPA's guidance on lead-safe work is worth reading before anyone starts wiping surfaces, and that covers most of the housing stock in Queens and Brooklyn.
We are Green Hands Cleaning Services Corp, based at 22-16 79th Street in East Elmhurst, and we have been cleaning homes across Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan since 2015. This page explains what our house cleaning service New York City clients actually get, what it costs, and how we handle the things that make cleaning an apartment here different from cleaning a house anywhere else.
Why people stay with us
Your home is kept on one route with notes attached to it, so whoever arrives already knows how you like it done. That is why the standard does not drift from one visit to the next.
We are …
… roughly forty cleaners working out of East Elmhurst, most of whom have been with us for years. Whoever arrives at your door is one of them, trained on the same checklist and working from notes kept on your home.
You come home to a place you have been avoiding.
We turn it back into somewhere you want to be.
No judgment. Just clean.
The result
Real New York homes, the evening after we finished. Kitchens reset, bathrooms done, floors clear, nothing left on your list.
What we do
Kitchen, bathrooms, floors, dusting and surfaces on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly rhythm that fits your schedule.
View serviceInside the oven and fridge, grout, baseboards, door frames, vents and behind furniture. The reset before or after a season.
View serviceLight tidying, laundry, bed linens and dishes alongside the standard clean, for homes that need more than surfaces.
View serviceEmpty-unit clean top to bottom, cabinets and closets included, timed around your lease dates and deposit inspection.
View serviceOffices, studios and small retail, after hours or before opening, on a schedule that fits your week.
View serviceFine dust removal after a renovation, including fixtures, window tracks and every horizontal surface twice over.
View serviceIncluded with every booking
In detail
Empty rooms hide the most. We clean the places furniture was covering, so you hand over keys, or take them, without a single deduction argument.
The reset for when normal upkeep stopped being enough. Grout, buildup, behind and underneath, the corners a quick tidy never reaches.
The recurring visit that keeps a deep clean from ever being necessary again. Same written checklist, every time, so nothing quietly slips.
Renovation dust is finer than household dust, so it settles again after you finish. It takes a HEPA vacuum and several passes hours apart.
What clients say
I cannot describe how good this team is. Best money I spend all month, without question.
Third booking this quarter. Consistent every single time, and I never have to re-explain the apartment.
The upfront price was the final price. After my last service, that felt genuinely remarkable.
Booked a deep clean before hosting twelve people. Not one thing I had to go back and fix.
The checklist
Every visit works through the same checklist, in the same order. We go top to bottom so nothing we knock loose lands on a surface we already finished. Deep and move-out cleans are the standard list plus the items below them, not a different list.
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The recurring visit. Every item, every time.
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Everything in the standard clean, plus:
03
Everything in the standard and deep clean, plus:
Cleaning products, sprays and cloths all come with us. For hygiene reasons we do not carry vacuums and mops between homes, so we ask that yours are available on the day. If you want fragrance-free or pet-safe products, say so when you book and that is what we bring, at no extra charge.
In detail
approach
An apartment in this city is not a small house. The radiator bakes dust on every winter. The tub has no window over it, so it holds moisture. One closet does the work of four. We built our checklist around those specifics rather than a generic room list, and we keep notes on your home so nothing has to be re-explained.
Our standard
apartments
In a pre-war building in Astoria or Sunnyside, plaster walls shed a chalky dust that settles on picture frames and sill tops. In a newer LIC tower the problem is the opposite: sealed windows, HVAC vents holding dust, and floor-to-ceiling glass that shows every mark. We clean both, and we do not use the same approach on both.
Ask about apartment cleaning in New York City, or your neighborhood: Long Island City or Astoria.
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deep clean
The standard checklist, then the rest: inside the oven, inside the fridge, grout scrubbed by hand, baseboards and door frames wiped, light fixtures and vents, window sills and tracks, blinds, behind and under furniture we can safely move.
Most apartments here need one every six months. If you cook a lot, have a radiator under a window, or you are in a ground-floor unit facing the street, make it every four. Book it before guests arrive rather than after, and before you list an apartment for sale, not the week of the open house.
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move in / move out
Empty cabinets and drawers wiped inside. Closet shelves and rods. Inside the oven and fridge. The gap beside the stove where things fall. Window tracks. Scuffs on the walls where furniture sat. Move-in is the same list with a different reason: the last tenant's cleaner had twenty minutes and a landlord watching the clock.
Worth knowing your rights here. The New York security deposit statute sets out what a landlord may and may not deduct, and ordinary wear and tear is not deductible. A clean apartment and a dated photo set is how you win that argument. Book seven or more days ahead and code RESET30 takes $30 off. See end of lease cleaning.
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recurring
Weekly takes 25% off every visit, bi-weekly 15%, monthly 10%, for as long as you stay on the plan. Bi-weekly is the right answer for most one and two bedroom apartments in this city. Weekly makes sense with kids, pets, or a household where someone cooks every night. Monthly works for a quiet studio, with a deep clean twice a year on top.
Reschedule or skip free up to 24 hours ahead, because everyone has a week that falls apart. See custom cleaning plans.
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eco & pet-friendly
Households with cats, dogs, birds or small kids get the pet-safe set by default once they tell us. One rule we never break, and neither should you: never mix bleach with ammonia or with any acidic cleaner. It produces a toxic gas, and in a windowless New York bathroom that is genuinely dangerous.
The CDC's cleaning guidance covers the basics in plain language, and the EPA's Safer Choice list is where we check a product before it goes in the kit. See eco-friendly cleaning and pet-friendly cleaning.
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The standard clean plus what piles up between visits: dishes, laundry, linens changed, towels swapped, clutter put back.
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The checklist and nothing more, priced by home size. Studios and one bedrooms run two to three hours with one cleaner.
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Condos, lofts, townhouses and brownstones. Stairs collect more dust than any other surface, so treads, risers and banister every visit.
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No plan, no commitment. Before a party, after a party, or just to see whether you like us before going recurring.
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Same day, week after week, on the same written list. Upkeep rather than rescue, for clients who work long hours or travel most weeks.
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Call before about 11am and we can usually reach you the same day. Queens and north Brooklyn are easiest.
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Checkout at 11, check-in at 3. Linens reset, restocked, staged to your listing photos, damage flagged before the next guest finds it.
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HEPA vacuum, several passes hours apart, and the places dust hides: door frame tops, window tracks, cabinet tops, radiator fins.
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Offices, studios and small retail, after hours or before opening, on a schedule that fits your week.
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Recurring plans
Set a rhythm and the discount applies to every visit, automatically. No contract, no cancellation fee, and you can change or pause it whenever you like.
For busy households and full schedules
25% off every visit
Your home never leaves its best state.
Cancel any time · no fee
Our most popular rhythm
15% off every visit
The sweet spot for most New York apartments.
Cancel any time · no fee
A steady reset on the calendar
10% off every visit
Keeps things from ever getting away from you.
Cancel any time · no fee
Discounts apply automatically to every visit for as long as you stay on the plan, and are quoted flat by home size before anyone arrives.
Where we clean
Most of our cleaners live in Queens, so Queens and north Brooklyn get the widest choice of times. Manhattan below 96th Street we cover every day.
Queens
Brooklyn
All of Brooklyn22-16 79th Street
East Elmhurst, NY 11370
Questions
No. Most clients give us entry instructions or a key and go about their day. Tell us how you would like us to get in when you book.
Yes, everything is included: We’ve got you covered on all the essential cleaning products—think sprays, solutions, paper towels, and sponges.
However, for the strictest hygiene standards, we don’t transport vacuums and mops between homes, as this can inadvertently spread bacteria or even bedbugs. To ensure a safe and sanitary clean, we kindly ask that you provide your own vacuum, mop, and toilet bowl brush if they’re needed for the job.
Need an alternative? We’re more than happy to bring a Swiffer mop with disposable wet pads instead—just give us a heads-up and we’ll make it happen!
A screened, trained cleaner from our own team. We keep notes on your home, so whoever arrives already knows how you like it done and works the same written checklist.
Tell us within 24 hours and we come back and re-clean the area at no charge.
Weekly takes 25% off every visit, bi-weekly 15%, monthly 10%, applied automatically for as long as you stay on the plan. No contract, and you can pause or change it whenever you like.
Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, including Astoria, Long Island City, Forest Hills, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope and the Upper West Side. Ask if you are just outside those.
Card on file, charged after the visit. No deposit, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours before your slot.
Testimonials
Booking took under a minute and the price never changed. The team arrived exactly in the window, worked through the checklist, and sent photos before they left.
I have had cleaners who skip the corners. These do not. The grout in my bathroom looks like it did when the building was renovated.
Set up bi-weekly six months ago and have not thought about it since. It happens, it is consistent, and the discount comes off automatically.
I have hired cleaners in this city for eleven years, and this is the first team I have kept past month three.
Ian Mackey
Building manager, Financial District
Deep clean before a listing photoshoot. The apartment showed better than the staging, and the unit went under contract that weekend.
Something got missed on the first visit, I mentioned it, and it was handled the next day without any argument. That is all I want from a service.
Three short-term rentals turning over weekly. They have never once made me late for a check-in.
Ready when you are
Tell us your home size and pick a day. You get a flat quote before anyone arrives, and first-time clients save 10% with FIRST10.
Green Hands
Cleaning Services
Insured, background-checked cleaners serving Queens, Brooklyn & Manhattan since 2015.
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