Five minutes from most of Hunting Park, and closer to two from the blocks around Erie Avenue. LT Auto Glass works out of 3538 N Lawrence Street, between Front and 2nd, so this is a neighborhood shop rather than a highway one. A chip fill is $60 to $130 and takes about half an hour. A windshield is $250 to $450 fitted. Door, quarter and back glass runs $200 to $500. Open 9 to 6, Monday through Saturday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Hunting Park is a street-parking neighborhood and that single fact explains most of the work that comes through the door. The rowhouse blocks between Erie Avenue and the park were built without driveways, so cars sit at the curb through every freeze, every heatwave and every night of the year. Damage here is usually discovered rather than witnessed: somebody walks out at seven in the morning and the glass is already in the footwell. The streets are narrow, cars are parked tight on both sides, and a wing mirror or a small quarter window gets clipped by a passing box truck often enough that we keep those parts moving.
The other half of it is what people around here actually drive. There are a lot of working vehicles on these blocks: contractor pickups, sign-written vans, older sedans kept alive because they have to be. A van with a cracked screen still has to go out and earn on Monday morning, so the useful thing we can do is put a firm number on it over the phone and get the glass in the same day when the part allows. We sit on a narrow street two blocks south of Erie, so the sensible arrangement is that you pull up, hand over the keys and let us shuffle the car ourselves. Nine to six, six days a week, closed Sunday.
Erie Avenue is the spine of this neighborhood: four lanes of buses, box trucks and through traffic running from Broad Street east toward Front and the river wards. Hunting Park Avenue tracks the top edge of the park itself and carries what is heading for the industrial yards. Broad Street closes the west side, Front Street the east, and everything between them is narrow one-way rowhouse grid, parking on both sides and barely enough width left for one moving car. Roosevelt Boulevard begins its run to the northeast just above the park. The through roads are a patchwork of trench cuts, sunken utility covers and cold patch, and a car kept in Hunting Park spends its entire life on that surface.
“I would definitely recommend this place for any glass repairs. Someone broke into my car through the sunroof, and they were able to fix it the same day without needing to keep my vehicle. The price was communicated to us in advance, which I appreciated. Just a heads-up: they only accept cash, not cards, so make sure to withdraw money before you arrive.”
Break-ins first, and it is not close. A door or rear quarter window goes in a couple of seconds on a dark block, and tempered glass ends up down inside the door skin, in the seat rails and in the heater vents. Second, stone off the working roads. Erie Avenue and Hunting Park Avenue carry loaded trucks all day, and what comes off a tire in the next lane will star a windshield without you hearing a thing. Third, the road surface finishing off a chip you already have. Trench cuts and dropped manholes flex the glass at the same point again and again, so a break that might have held quietly for two winters on a smooth road will walk across the screen here before the month is out. Fourth, February. Nobody with a curbside car waits for the cabin to warm through, so the defroster goes on hard against a frozen screen and a repairable chip becomes a replacement.
Whatever part of Hunting Park you start from, get yourself onto Erie Avenue. Come east past Broad, past 5th, and turn south into the small streets before you reach Front; we are on N Lawrence between Front and 2nd, a couple of blocks down. From the park end, take 9th Street or Old York Road south to Erie and turn east. Coming off the Boulevard, drop onto Front Street and run south. Lawrence is street parking like every other block around here, so ring when you set off and somebody will be looking out for the car instead of leaving you to circle.
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Both, depending on the car. Screens for the models that fill these blocks are held here, and popular door and quarter glass generally comes across from the city suppliers within a few hours. What tips a job from stocked to ordered is specification: heated glass, an acoustic interlayer, an antenna printed into the panel, a mirror mount with a camera in it. Read us the VIN alongside the year, make and model on 215-608-1108 and that is settled before you leave the house.
Cover the hole from inside with plastic sheet and packing tape, carried well past the frame on all four sides so it does not tear away at speed. Leave the mess alone. A household vacuum drives tempered fragments further down the window channel and under the seat runners, and getting them back out again is slower than doing it right the first time. Drive down with the other windows shut. Side, quarter and back glass is $200 to $500 fitted, usually the same day, and the clear-out is included.
A chip fill is about thirty minutes and you can sit with it. A windshield is nearer an hour on the car, and then the urethane needs its safe drive-away window before the panel will hold in a hard stop, which we hand you as a clock time rather than a shrug. Plenty of people who live on these blocks give us the keys and walk home. Nine until six, Monday to Saturday, shut on Sunday.
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