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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 walk-ups, same prewar bathrooms, same narrow galley kitchens as yours. Unedited reviews from Manhattan clients.
Amanda R.
Upper East Side · deep clean
I was overwhelmed prepping for my in-laws and the apartment was a disaster zone. They left every surface sparkling and my mother-in-law even said how fresh the guest room smelled.
James P.
West Village · one-time deep clean
My wife was recovering from surgery and the chores were piling up. They handled the whole place, focusing on the bathrooms and kitchen, so we could just rest.
Michael B.
Financial District · studio deep clean
My partner was moving in and I was mortified by the dust in my studio. They got the place guest-ready and it honestly felt like a brand new apartment.
How it works
From the pile you have been avoiding to an apartment you are glad to unlock.
Work ran late all week, the weekend vanished, and now the galley kitchen and the one bathroom you share are asking for hours you dont have.
Size, bathrooms, and how long its 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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Thomas G. called us from Murray Hill on a Thursday afternoon, half whispering. He had turned a spare room into a home office, the contractor had finished nine days earlier, and every zoom call showed a grey haze on the bookshelf behind his head. He had wiped that shelf twice. By the next morning it was grey again, and there was a fine grit on his keyboard he could feel with his fingertips.
That is renovation dust, and it is the number one thing Manhattan clients call us about that they genuinely cannot fix alone. Its finer than household dust, so it floats for days and lands after you have already finished cleaning. A cloth and a spray bottle will not beat it. It takes a HEPA vacuum, a strict top-down order of work, and wiping the same surface more than once, hours apart. We did Thomas's office on a Saturday morning. He emailed Monday to say he had worked a full day in there without once reaching for a tissue. If your building went up before 1978 — which covers most of the housing stock from Harlem down to the Lower East Side — the EPA's lead-safe guidance is worth ten minutes of reading before anyone starts wiping.
We are Green Hands Cleaning Services Corp, based at 22-16 79th Street in East Elmhurst, and we have been running a house cleaning service Manhattan residents book week after week since 2015. This page explains exactly what a visit includes, what it costs, how our recurring plans work, and the handful of things that make cleaning an apartment on this island different from cleaning a house anywhere else in the country.
Why Manhattan clients stay
Your apartment is kept on one route with notes attached to it, so whoever arrives already knows about the sticky closet door and the rug that cannot get wet. 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 rides up your elevator is one of them, trained on the same checklist and working from notes kept on your apartment.
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 Manhattan apartments, 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
Hosting a large group for Thanksgiving felt impossible. They scoured the oven, counters and floors until everything was pristine.
We were in the final stages of moving out and couldnt get the deposit back without a real scrub down. We got the full amount returned, no issues.
Three weeks away, dusty apartment, family coming for brunch the next morning. They tackled it all and I actually enjoyed hosting again.
Allergy season was brutal with the pet dander. An intensive deep clean on the carpets and upholstery, and my husband has been breathing easier.
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
A Manhattan apartment is not a small house. The steam radiator bakes dust onto the sill every winter. The bathroom has no window, so it holds moisture and grows mildew in the grout line. 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 apartment so nothing has to be re-explained on the next visit.
Our standard
apartment cleaning
In a pre-war line on the Upper West Side or in Harlem, the plaster walls shed a chalky dust that lands on picture frames and sill tops, and the parquet floors need a barely-damp mop rather than a wet one. In a newer tower in the Financial District the problem flips: sealed windows, HVAC vents holding dust, and floor-to-ceiling glass that shows every fingerprint from the inside. We clean both, and we do not use the same method on both.
Ask about apartment cleaning in New York City, or your block: Upper East Side, Chelsea, West Village or Harlem. Small places have their own page too — see studio apartment cleaning.
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maid service
Same checklist, plus the household work that eats an evening: dishes, a load of laundry folded, bed linens changed, towels swapped, clutter put back where it lives. This is the option most of our busy-professional clients in Midtown and Tribeca pick, because the apartment is not just clean, its actually reset.
Related: maid service in New York City, laundry services and cleaning for busy professionals.
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residential cleaning
Stairs collect more dust than any other surface in a townhouse, so treads, risers and the banister get done every visit, not occasionally. Lofts in SoHo and Tribeca have height we plan for: light fixtures, exposed ductwork and beam tops need a pole and a ladder, and we bring both. Penthouse terraces get the door tracks and sills, which is where the city grit actually collects.
See townhouse cleaning, loft cleaning, condo cleaning and penthouse cleaning.
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deep cleaning
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 most nights, have a radiator under a window, or you are in a ground-floor unit facing the avenue, make it every four. Book it before guests arrive rather than after, and before you list, not the week of the open house. See deep cleaning in New York City or spring cleaning.
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move in and move out cleaning
Which is not what you look at. 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 wall where the sofa sat for four years. Move-in is the same list with a different reason: the last tenant's cleaner had twenty minutes and a super 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 plus 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 and move in / move out cleaning.
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recurring cleaning
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 on this island. Weekly makes sense with kids, pets, or a household where somebody 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 or the recurring cleaning overview.
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one time cleaning
Before a party, after a party, before the in-laws land at LaGuardia, or just to see whether you like us before setting a schedule. Same checklist, same guarantee, one visit. Emily C. in Williamsburg booked one after a first birthday party and told us the rugs came out better than they went in.
Related: after-party cleaning, holiday cleaning and one time cleaning.
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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 makes a toxic gas, and in a windowless Manhattan 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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Call before about 11am and we can usually reach you the same day. Midtown, the Upper East Side and the Financial District 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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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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Offices, studios and small retail, after hours or before opening, on a schedule that fits your week.
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Lobbies, hallways, stairwells and shared laundry rooms, on a nightly or weekly rota with a named contact for the super.
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Interior glass, sills and tracks. On high floors we work from inside only, which is what building rules almost always require anyway.
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High-touch points done properly: handles, switches, remotes, faucet levers, the intercom panel everyone in the building touches.
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Closets, entryways and the one kitchen drawer that has lost the argument. Sorted, contained and labelled so it stays that way.
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Overnight and early morning slots for offices, short-term rentals and anyone whose apartment can only be empty at 6am.
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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 Manhattan 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.
Questions
The things Manhattan clients ask us most, answered in full. No clicking required.
Q Do I need to be home during the clean?
No. Most Manhattan clients leave keys with the doorman, give us a lockbox code, or buzz us in and head to work. Tell us how you would like us to get in when you book, and we note it on your file so you never have to repeat it.
Q Do you bring your own supplies?
Yes, all the essentials come with us: sprays, solutions, paper towels and sponges. For hygiene reasons we do not move vacuums and mops between homes, because that is how bacteria and bedbugs travel between buildings. We ask that you provide your own vacuum, mop and toilet bowl brush. If you would rather not, we can bring a Swiffer mop with disposable wet pads instead — just tell us when you book.
Q What does a house cleaning service in Manhattan cost?
You get a flat quote before anyone is booked, based on the size of the home, the number of bathrooms and how long it has been since the last clean. It does not change on the day. Recurring plans take 10 to 25 percent off that number for every visit, and new clients can stack code FIRST10 on the first booking. Full detail on our pricing page.
Q How long does a cleaning take?
A studio or one bedroom on the standard checklist runs about two to three hours with one cleaner. Two bedrooms, three to four. A first deep clean usually adds two hours on top, and a move-out on an empty unit is normally a half day. We tell you the expected window when you book so you can plan around it.
Q Who will be cleaning my apartment?
A screened, trained cleaner from our own team — we do not subcontract. We keep notes on your home, so whoever arrives already knows how you like it done and works the same written checklist. On recurring plans we keep the same person on your route wherever the schedule allows.
Q What if something is missed?
Tell us within 24 hours and we come back and re-clean the area at no charge. No forms, no argument. It is the simplest promise we make and the one we are most careful about keeping.
Q Can you do same day cleaning in Manhattan?
Often, yes. Call before roughly 11am and we can usually get someone to you the same afternoon, especially in Midtown, the Upper East Side and the Financial District. Weekends and the last few days of the month fill fastest, so book earlier if you can. See same day cleaning service.
Q Do you clean Airbnb and short-term rentals?
Yes, and turnovers are their own workflow. Checkout at 11, check-in at 3, linens reset, amenities restocked, the unit staged back to your listing photos, and any damage photographed and sent to you before the next guest walks in. See Airbnb cleaning and short-term rental cleaning.
Q Which Manhattan neighborhoods do you cover?
All of Manhattan below 96th Street daily, and Harlem and Morningside Heights on most days. That includes the Upper East and West Sides, Chelsea, Midtown, Flatiron, Greenwich Village, the East and West Village, SoHo, Tribeca, the Lower East Side, Chinatown and the Financial District. We also cover Brooklyn and Queens.
Q How do I pay, and can I cancel?
Card on file, charged after the visit. No deposit is taken to hold a slot, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours before your appointment. Recurring plans have no contract, so you can pause or stop them whenever you want.
Testimonials
With a newborn due any day I needed a nesting clean so the nursery was safe. They used eco-friendly products, dusted every corner and sanitized the floors. A beautiful dust-free nursery for our baby girl.
Two kids and a demanding job meant the place hadnt had a proper scrubbing in months. They tackled the kitchen and bathrooms and I finally enjoyed a weekend without the guilt of a messy house.
A major leak left our basement dusty and the main floor grimy. They handled the whole post-water cleanup and restored the floor to its original condition. Stressful situation, comfortable ending.
I had a work deadline and an open house the next morning. They worked magic on the dusty shelves and scuffed floors, and we received an offer the very next day.
Mark J.
Soho, Manhattan · same-day clean
I just had a baby and my husband arranged a clean before we came home. They sanitized the whole apartment and organized the nursery. The best gift was walking into a calm, peaceful place.
We set up a home office and the renovation left drywall dust everywhere. They cleaned every surface and the air vents so I could finally set up my equipment. Spotless and ready for zoom calls.
We helped my mother-in-law downsize and her old apartment needed a deep clean before the walkthrough. They handled the neglected kitchen and bathrooms with real care. It made a sad move easier.
Where we clean
Manhattan below 96th Street is covered every day of the week, and Harlem and Morningside Heights most days. Our team is based in Queens, so Queens and north Brooklyn have the widest choice of arrival times.
Manhattan
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All of Brooklyn22-16 79th Street
East Elmhurst, NY 11370
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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