Yes, and you do not have to leave the peninsula for it. Our shop sits at 14-06 Augustina Avenue, minutes from Mott Avenue. Chip repairs take 20 to 30 minutes, most windshields go in inside an hour, and a car dropped off in the morning is usually back with you the same afternoon.
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Far Rockaway is the one neighborhood we never have to drive to. The shop is here, on Augustina Avenue, which means a cracked windshield on Cornaga or Beach 19th is a short hop rather than a morning lost to the Nassau Expressway. We are open eight to five on weekdays and eight to two on Saturday, and you can leave the car and walk back into the neighborhood while the work happens.
What comes through the door is the mix you would expect at this end of the sandbar: commuter sedans that live on the street year-round, minivans doing school runs on Beach Channel Drive, contractor pickups, and livery cars that cannot afford a day off the road. We quote the number before we start, bill comprehensive claims direct when the policy allows, and back every install with the lifetime workmanship warranty. If a chip can be filled instead of replaced, we say so. Cars that spend every night parked on the beach blocks arrive looking nothing like cars kept in a garage, and we quote on what is actually in front of us rather than on a book rate.
Far Rockaway is the eastern end of the peninsula, packed between Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic and stopping dead at the Nassau line. Mott Avenue carries the commercial spine and terminates the A train; the LIRR Far Rockaway branch station sits alongside it. Central Avenue, Cornaga Avenue and Beach 20th Street handle most of the local errands, Seagirt Boulevard runs the ocean side toward the beach blocks, and the Nassau Expressway lifts you off the sandbar toward Rockaway Boulevard. Parking is a mix of driveways on the residential blocks and tight curbside near the avenues, which is why a lot of cars here sit outside in salt air for years. Streets around Redfern Avenue and the Beach 20s are narrow and one-way in stretches, so we tell people to come at us from Mott rather than threading the side blocks.
“Came here to get my windows tinted. They did a phenomenal at a decent price. The owner and staff are really nice. Professional, talented and honest! Good place to bring your car in Far Rockaway.”
Two things do most of the damage here, and both blow in off the water. Salt fog settles on parked cars overnight, works into any chip that has already broken the outer layer, and quietly attacks the pinch weld and trim around the glass. Blown sand does the rest: it drifts across Seagirt Boulevard and the beach-block curbs, gets dragged under wiper blades, and frosts a windshield with fine scratches that turn every low winter sun into glare. Add the stone and grit thrown up on the Nassau Expressway, then a January cold snap on a car that has been sitting outside, and a quarter-sized star becomes a crack running to the edge overnight. Chips caught early on the peninsula almost always stay repairable.
From Mott Avenue you are a couple of minutes away, and the same goes for Central Avenue and the Beach 20s. Coming off Seagirt Boulevard, cut north toward Mott and follow it east. If you are dropping down the Nassau Expressway from Rockaway Boulevard, stay on it until it feeds into the Far Rockaway street grid and turn before Mott gets busy. There is room to leave a car with us while the adhesive cures. If the glass is too far gone to drive on, say so when you call and we will bring the van to your block instead.
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You can, and plenty of Far Rockaway people do. Walking in works best for chip repairs, since those need no ordered parts and take under half an hour. For a full windshield it helps to phone ahead with the year, make and model so the right glass is waiting when you arrive instead of being fetched.
We stock and source the glass that matches what actually drives around here, so ordinary sedans, small SUVs and work vans are usually same-day. Rarer trim, heated wiper parks, acoustic laminates and camera-equipped windshields sometimes need a day. We will tell you which bucket your car falls in when you call with the details.
Saturday runs eight to two and it fills fast, because that is the only window a lot of drivers have. Come early if you want a windshield done that morning, since the adhesive needs its safe drive-away time before you can take the car. Chip repairs are easier to slot in late.
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| Monday – Friday | 08:00 – 17:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 – 14:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |