House Cleaning Services in New York City
Cleaning a New York City house is not the same job as cleaning an apartment — and it's not even close. Brownstones in Park Slope with original 1890s hardwood. Four-story townhouses in the West Village with a different layout on every floor. Row houses in Astoria with a finished basement and a backyard. We send dedicated multi-person teams trained for multi-level homes, and we follow a 55-point checklist from the top floor down to the ground level.
What's Included Every Time
Our comprehensive checklist ensures nothing is missed, backed by our re-clean guarantee.
Complete multi-floor cleaning from top level to ground floor
Staircase treads, banisters & spindle dusting
Hardwood floor care with appropriate cleaning solutions
Vacuum all carpeted rooms, runners & area rugs
Dust built-in bookshelves, mantels & crown moldings
Clean & disinfect every bathroom on every floor
Kitchen deep wipe: counters, stovetop, sink & backsplash
Clean inside microwave, exterior of oven & fridge
Empty trash & recycling on every level
Make beds, straighten linens & fluff pillows in all bedrooms
Wipe baseboards, chair rails & window sills throughout
Spot-clean cabinet fronts, door frames & light fixtures
Keep your home spotless and save up to 30%
Book recurring service and lock in a dedicated team at a discounted flat rate. No hidden fees, no lock-in contracts. Just a beautifully clean home on autopilot.
100,000+ Queens, BK & Manhattan cleans
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Weekly
25%
Bi-weekly
15%
Monthly
Where We Serve in NYC
Our W-2 professional cleaning teams are dispatched daily across the major boroughs of New York City.
Brownstones, Townhouses & Multi-Floor Homes
When most cleaning services say "house cleaning," they're thinking about a single-level ranch in the suburbs. That's not New York. In this city, a "house" means three to five floors connected by narrow staircases, each level with its own set of rooms, its own dust patterns, and its own challenges. The parlor floor has 12-foot ceilings and ornate plaster moldings that collect dust you cant reach without a step stool. The garden level has a kitchen that hasn't been renovated since the '80s and tile grout that's been absorbing cooking grease for decades. The top floor bedrooms have sloped ceilings and radiators tucked into alcoves.
We've cleaned over 1,600 homes in Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO — where the brownstone stock is among the oldest and most architecturally varied in the city. In Park Slope, over 1,100 cleans, mostly in classic limestone and brownstone row houses where every other home has a different staircase configuration. Our teams know that you don't use the same cleaning solution on original 1890s heart pine floors that you'd use on a modern engineered hardwood. They know that plaster walls can't take the same aggressive scrubbing that drywall can. These aren't details you learn from a training manual — they come from years of hands-on experience in these specific homes.
We approach every house cleaning top-down. Start on the highest floor, work our way down each level, so dust and debris fall toward areas we haven't cleaned yet. By the time we reach the ground floor, every staircase has been vacuumed, every banister wiped, and every room on every floor has received the same thorough attention. No floor gets shortchanged because the team ran out of energy on the climb.
Built for the Scale of NYC Homes
A house cleaning isn't a one-person job. We send teams of two or three, depending on the size of your home — and we allocate the time the job actually requires. No rushing through the fourth floor because there's another appointment in 45 minutes. Our flat-rate pricing means you know exactly what you're paying before we arrive, and it's based on the real scope of work, not a generic estimate.
For townhouses with outdoor spaces — and yes, a surprising number of NYC houses have backyards, patios, or roof decks — we can include a sweep and tidy as part of the service. We also handle the little things that accumulate in houses but not apartments: entry hall mud tracked in from the garden, pet hair in stairwell carpet runners, dust on built-in bookcases that stretch from floor to ceiling. Over 78,000 cleans across New York, and houses remain some of the most rewarding work we do because the transformation is dramatic when it's done right.
"We have a four-story brownstone in Brooklyn Heights and tried three other services before Maid Marines. The difference is they actually clean every floor with the same level of detail — the top floor bedrooms aren't an afterthought. They also knew to use the right products on our original wood floors without us having to say anything."
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Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn