Handyman in Park Slope

I work in Park Slope regularly — it’s one of my core Brooklyn neighborhoods. The jobs I get called for most here: anchoring dressers and bookcases for families with kids ($90 flat), hanging heavy mirrors and gallery walls, building out shelving, and the endless small stuff a brownstone throws at you. Minimum visit is $90, and I quote a flat price from your photos before I come.

What Park Slope homes actually need

The housing stock here is mostly brownstones and prewar buildings, many carved into co-op units or floor-through rentals. That changes the work in specific ways:

• Plaster and brick behind the walls. A picture hook that works in new drywall won’t hold in hundred-year-old plaster. I bring the right anchors for plaster-on-lath and masonry, so your heavy mirror (from $90) stays up.
• Doors that have settled. Brownstones shift over a century. Doors that stick, don’t latch, or scrape the floor are a classic Park Slope call — planing and hinge work runs from $110.
• Narrow stairs, no elevator. Getting a queen bed frame or a PAX wardrobe up a fourth-floor walk-up is a puzzle. Sometimes the answer is carrying flat-packs up and doing the furniture assembly in the room — a PAX runs from $180, a standard IKEA dresser from $90.
• Co-op boards and managing agents. Plenty of buildings here have house rules — approved work hours, sign-in with the super, paperwork from the managing agent. Tell me the rules up front and I’ll plan the visit around them, so board formalities don’t delay your job.

Popular services in Park Slope

This is a family neighborhood, and it shows in my calendar. Furniture anchoring is the number one request — dressers, bookcases, and TV stands strapped to the wall so a climbing toddler can’t tip them ($90 flat, done right into studs or masonry). Close behind: shelving and storage for apartments where every closet is already full, floating shelves from $60 each, and TV mounting from $120 on drywall or $160 on the exposed brick a lot of parlor floors have.

I also do a steady run of drywall and plaster patching from $140 including paint, tub re-caulking at $120, and touch-up painting from $150 a room — the kind of list that piles up until you finally book one visit and knock it all out. All prices are published on my pricing page, materials extra. And cleanup is included; I don’t leave plaster dust on your parquet.

How booking works

Text or email me photos of the job — the wall, the flat-pack boxes, the sticking door, whatever it is. I answer personally; there’s no dispatcher or call center between us. You get a flat price before I arrive, not an estimate that grows on site. Then we pick a slot.

I work evenings and Sundays, which matters if your weekdays are a school-run-and-office sandwich. Sunday is often my quietest booking day in Park Slope precisely because most competitors are closed — take advantage. If it’s urgent, check same-day availability, and if you’re elsewhere in the borough, I cover all of Brooklyn, including Williamsburg.

Send the photos, get the number, pick the evening. That’s the whole process.