January 16, 2004

Urban Outfitter

Urban Convenience

Drop off dry cleaning.
Nearly forget to pick it up.
Swear profusely as you rush to get there before closing time.
Yearn for all-jeans-and-T-shirt wardrobe as you pay exorbitant bill.

Hard to tell which part is the suckiest.

Urban Convenience may forever change your relationship to your fine washables. They pick up. They deliver. (Theirs isn’t the cable guy’s “sometime between 12 and 6” schedule, but rather the Chinese-food guy’s “see you in 20.”) No stain is too tough. They’ll even defuzz pilly sweaters. All for impossibly low prices. (Men’s and women’s shirts — finally! — cost the same to launder.)

But oh, there’s more. Need repair work? For a mere five dollars, their tailor will make a house call, ridding you forever of that pile of clothes that — face it — you’ll never get around to dealing with.

You’ll never have to go searching for that lost ticket again.

Urban Convenience (212-772-8412); or online at urbanconvenience.com.