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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good
Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Doug Drohan.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Everybody, welcome to
another episode of the Good
Neighbor Podcast brought to youby the Bergen Neighbors Media
Group.
I am your host, Doug Drohan,and today we are joined by the
company Manhattan Wind Doors Inc.
And it's Juart Reyes is joiningus today.
Dwarte, welcome to the showhello glad to be here yeah, so.
So, , tell me a little bitabout what your role is.
(00:33):
You said your father owns thecompany.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, my father owns
the company's family-owned
business and I just help play mypart in that um, do some stuff
for social media, manage someinvoices.
I just kind of do a little bitof everything in the company.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So what is Wind Doors
?
It's called Manhattan WindDoors, so I guess most of your
work is done in Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, yeah, the
majority of our work is done in
Manhattan.
Right now.
We kind of focus on doing thefive in the five boroughs.
We do work there commercialresidential work but we're
thinking about, in the closefuture, expanding to serving
Bergen County as well.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
OK, hence the reason
why you're on Good Neighbors,
bergen.
So when doors means you guys dowindows and doors, so what is
it like?
Explain to me exactly what whatyou guys do?
Windows and doors.
So what is it like?
Explain to me exactly what youguys do?
You install new windows, youwork with new building projects.
I mean, obviously you're inManhattan, so you probably do a
lot of commercial, but you do alot of residential as well.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah, we do.
We do a lot of commercial workwith these window and door
repair and installations.
We do like there's a lot ofbroken glass in New York, like
people like there's like brokenwindows all the time we go and
do that.
We do like new installationsfor windows as well, the same
thing for doors.
Like we just work with alltypes of companies in New York
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and you know there's all like alot of interesting situations
that occur and you know there'sall like a lot of interesting
situations that that occur andyou know we always try to be
like quick and do a good jobwith it, to be there for those
companies and how many, how manyTesla dealerships are in New
York Might?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
be, a few broken
windows there right now.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, oh man,
that is true, but yeah, no, we,
we, we work with like all typesof all types of companies, so
nice.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So what like how did
your father get into this
business?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, so my father
Angel, he started off as a
superintendent in Manhattan andlike while he was working as a
superintendent he found apassion for construction.
And like later on, when he hadhis third child, he kind of
realized that he needed tobetter provide, because a
superintendent isn't the bestsalary in New York.
(02:51):
And he just said he wanted toopen a business in the
construction space and at thetime he wasn't sure how to base
his business.
But since he had a lot ofexperience working with windows
and doors because he was asuperintendent, he decided, uh,
based off of that and, yeah,like it took off from there wow,
(03:13):
so he was a super of a building, of a, an apartment building
yeah, yeah okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
So yeah, I lived in
the city and my share, you know,
I lived in I don't know howmany apartments I lived in in
manhattan or new queens in newyork.
I think there was a total ofthree, yeah, three, three
apartments I lived in in newyork city.
Um, well, anyway.
So I mean, I guess there's alot that goes into it.
You know I, I get andersonwindows throws, like you know
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these door hangers on my doorevery or every like month.
They put something in mymailbox Like are there.
And you know Manhattan.
One of the things you've noticed, just as a as a layman like
myself, is the new buildings inManhattan are almost all glass.
You know, back in the old days,buildings were made of stone,
you know, limestone or whateverit was.
(04:04):
They built like the EmpireState Building and I guess they
realized, you know, ecologicallyor whatever it was, they built
like the Empire State Buildingand I guess they realized,
ecologically or from a climateperspective, it's more efficient
to have glass than it is to bestone.
That's why the city can be sohot, and there's also an
aesthetic feel to having glass,the way it reflects the sunlight
and the clouds and it lookslike it's endless sometimes when
(04:25):
you look up into the sky andthe way it reflects the sunlight
and the clouds, and it lookslike it's, you know, endless
sometimes when you look up tothe sky and the way uh, these
buildings that are made of glass, uh, so what have you guys like
?
How long has your dad has thecompany been in business?
and what changes have they seenover the years?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
oh, we've been in
business since 2016.
Um, we started off just doing,uh, window door installations,
but we we kind of branched offand we started doing some other
things and we also likeobviously grown the company
since that time.
It's mainly just like bringingin new, like new workers,
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teaching them how to do theirjob efficiently, and so, like
these building managers that wework with are satisfied with the
job and the residents as well,because that's the most
important thing that theresidents are satisfied with the
work that we do.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Right, so you're
doing installation repair, but
you're not doing window cleaningright?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
No, we do not do
window cleaning at this time.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Okay, so you know,
know, like I was referring to
the buildings that are going upthat are all made of glass, I
guess it's been, you know, agood business to be in, to be
offering, you know, windows inmanhattan these days, right?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
yeah, yeah, yeah.
We get like we got all types ofjobs um like all throughout, um
, all throughout, like the dayum a lot of emergencies, you
know, like anything, anythingcould happen in New York City.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So that's why doing
these like emergency
installations- yeah, yeah, anddo you guys also do like showers
and and things like that, or isit mostly all exterior?
Um, it is most, it is mostly umall exterior what we do okay,
uh, so windows doors maintenance, repair, um, like, what are the
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other things that you guys dothat might not seem like evident
from just you know, looking atyour name um, yeah, we do like,
uh, skylight repair replacement,which is kind of different, and
we also do building likebuilding storefront, um, which
is like where we kind of um likehelp, like kind of build like
the front of like a building out, um, if there's been like major
(06:37):
damage to it got it, okay, okay.
And then, uh, like what?
Like one of the biggestprojects you guys have worked on
, have you done the windows anddoors for a big high-rise it's
been built?
Or you mostly work, um, likesmaller jobs.
Like, have you ever had a hugeconstruction project like the
(06:58):
ones you see?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
uh, all the time in
the city?
Uh, no, we would love to haveum like the opportunity to work
on that, but we've um mostlyjust been working on like, like
you know, like smaller, likebuildings in new york.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Um that storefront
kind of things yeah, yeah, like
stuff like that right and thenapartment windows yes, yeah,
that's been.
That's been what we've been, uh, we've been working on so when
you do apartment windows, you'relooking at, you know,
residential apartments, whereyou know most of them you have
to have those uh, child guardsuh, and windows.
I guess, if they have a kid inthe house, is that something you
(07:32):
guys also do.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, yeah, we do
that we do that as well and
it's's a lot of times it's likea mandatory thing.
I think I'm almost 100% it'slike a mandatory thing that you
have to have in a lot ofbuildings in New York.
So we obviously do installs forthat, like they fall out or
they're like rusted, like rustedout, like we just like make
sure that it's there.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, One of the
things when I lived on 26th
street is my apartment was sohot in the winter that I always
wanted my windows open.
But then you know you're in thecity and you don't want your
window open with the fire escaperight out there, Cause somebody
could just walk in.
Yeah, but the worst thing waswhen the window was stuck and
you couldn't open it Cause youknow who knows how long it's
(08:17):
been since that window was open.
Are those kind of some of theservice calls you get when?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah, we get that
pretty frequently where the
window needs to be lubed up orwe need to part in it and it
just gets so heavy to the pointwhere it has to be fixed and
yeah, we come after that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, yeah, you know,
one thing I noticed when I go
to Europe is the way the windowsare done in countries like
Germany or France or Spain,where they open a number of
different ways.
It has like a handle on theside and if I turn it one way it
opens up like a door, and if Iturn it another way it just kind
of goes vertically, kind ofleans one way to let in air.
(09:00):
Um, we don't see those in inamerica or in the city.
Do you know why that is?
Um, I know the windows I'mtalking about.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
yeah, yeah, yeah I've
been here, if I know the
windows that you're talkingabout, I think.
I just think that it's because,like you know, like there's
nothing wrong with these windows, just leave them be.
A lot of buildings in New York,they're rather old.
So you would have to do so manychanges.
(09:29):
You just use these old windowswhere you just sign them up, but
for newer constructions,sometimes if you want to spend a
little bit more, you use thosetype of windows.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, I mean I, you
know it's definitely something I
see in Europe and residentialhomes more than you know hotels.
But I think the last hotel Iwas in in Spain and Barcelona
had that kind of window and Ialways thought it was kind of
cool because you could open itdifferent ways and it opens up,
you know big enough where youget to.
You know walk through it if youhad to, but you know I'd
(10:02):
imagine there's also a lot ofinsulation, like the different
kinds of windows today, the typeof insulation you get.
And then if the windows arefacing the sun, the room can get
really, really hot.
So what do you guys recommendwhen you have an apartment where
your living room, your bedroom,is facing east and you get the
morning sun or the afternoon sun, if it's facing west and it
(10:23):
gets really hot, what do youguys recommend?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
afternoon sun if it's
facing west and it gets really
hot.
What do you guys recommend?
Um, I like, I would say likelike, if you don't have, like,
if you, if you don't have shades, um, I don't know, like, I
probably like put I would put anac in in, um in that room, if
I'm being honest, but it likefor like insulation wise, like
even in like the cold, like itjust makes uh like good, like a
good quality, like window justmakes like a very big difference
than like window with like thecold, like it just makes uh like
good, like a good quality likewindow just makes like a very
big difference than like windowwith that that has like poor
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insulation right, right and it'sinteresting.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So again, the areas
you service you mentioned, it's
basically the five boroughs.
Uh, you know you do a lot inmanhattan but obviously you work
out in queens, brooklyn, stoutisland, bron, bronx, and maybe
someday coming across the bridgeand going over the GW and
hitting the Bergen County area.
A lot of high rises in Fort Lee,but certainly residentially.
(11:18):
You know there's a lot of coolthings people could do, that
they can think about theirwindows a little bit differently
than what we typically see.
So what, um, so what?
What's the best way you know ifsomebody who's listening to
this is in the city at thispoint?
What's the best way to contactyou guys?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Uh, yeah, so we have
a website.
It's called Manhattan windows,um Manhattan, like you spelled,
manhattan, um, and then windows,which is w-i-n-d-o-o-r-s?
Uh dot com, and we also have aphone number with a lovely um
like attendant and she um willpick up at any time, but her
(11:57):
number is 718-719-6199.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Okay all right, great
um, is there anything you want,
anything you wanted to saybefore we leave that?
You know it's something wedidn't cover that you felt is I
mean, I know it's tough withoutyour dad talking about his
passion, of how we got into thebusiness, but what is it that
you guys, you know, do thatmight be different than a lot of
your competition um, I guess,like we, like we're we're family
(12:30):
, like we're a family-ownedbusiness, like, um, we have a
lot of uh, or we have like a lotof experience in this, we do uh
, like like high, like highquality, just like good job
every single time.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
We always serve to
please um, which is like not
something that you see with alot of other companies that,
like they just try rushing thejob, they try to put put stuff
out, like we like we have apassion for this and like we'll
do, we'll try to do like thebest every single time that we
go out and do a job.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Nice and you have a
big team.
It's a big, a big crew.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, it's a decently
.
It's a decently big crew rightnow Nice.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Nice, All right.
Wanda, I really appreciate youcoming and sharing a little bit
about Manhattan Wind Doors.
Again, it's manhattanwinddoors.
com Currently serving the fiveboroughs, but coming to Bergen
County in New Jersey perhapssometime this year, and the
phone number is 718-719-6199.
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Thank you so much for joiningus today.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, of course.
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Absolutely.
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