House Cleaning Service East Village Neighbors Keep Calling Back

A real East Village story

Amanda had one night. We had a crew.

Amanda R. called us at 4pm on a Tuesday, half whispering because she was still at work. Her in-laws were landing the next morning. Her kitchen was a wreck, the bathroom was worse, and and she had zero hours to fix it. We put a two-person team in her East 6th Street walk-up that evening. By the time she got home the counters were clear the tub was scrubbed, and the floors were done. Her words after: "My mother-in-law actually complimented how clean our home was."

That is a pretty normal week for us. Lily Maids is the house cleaning service East Village renters and owners call when the clock is against them. We are a locally owned team, our cleaners are insured and background-checked, and we work all over Manhattan. Whether you need one one-time reset, a deep cleaning that gets behind the radiator, or a recurring plan that keeps things handled, the process is the same. Pick a time. See your flat price. Come home to a clean apartment.

Almost everyone here rents an apartment

Apartment Cleaning built for small spaces.

Nobody in the East Village has a big house. You have an apartment, and it is probably older than your parents. A lot of these buildings went up before 1901, which means narrow stairs, painted-over trim, and a bathroom you can touch both walls in. Small rooms are harder to clean well, not easier. Every surface gets used, and clutter has nowhere to hide.

Our teams work these layouts all day. Galley kitchens where the fridge blocks the cabinet. Claw-foot tubs with a shower ring. Radiators that shed dust from October through April. Railroad apartments where you walk through the bedroom to reach the kitchen. We know which corners collect grime in a pre-war unit and we go after those first. Walk-ups are normal here so we dont charge extra for stairs, and if you have a super who needs to buzz us in, just tell us in the booking notes.

If you also keep a place nearby, we cover the Lower East Side, Alphabet City, and NoHo with the same crews. Full details on our apartment cleaning service page.

The every-visit baseline

Standard Basic Cleaning done right.

This is the one most people book. Kitchen counters, stovetop, sink, appliance fronts, and cabinet doors. Bathroom tub, tile, toilet, vanity, and mirror. Dusting through the living room and bedrooms. Beds made. Floors vacuumed and mopped everywhere. Trash out. That is the standard basic cleaning, and it runs the same way whether we come once or every week.

We keep it a fixed list on purpose. When the scope drifts, quality drifts with it. You always know what your going to get for the price you saw at checkout. If you want something outside the list, like inside the oven or inside the fridge, that is an add-on you pick during booking so nothing gets missed. The full room-by-room breakdown is on our standard cleaning checklist, and the master list lives on the cleaning checklist page.

Top to bottom, inside out

Deep Cleaning for old buildings.

Every East Village apartment has spots a weekly wipe-down never touches. Inside the oven. Inside the fridge. Behind and under the furniture. Baseboards, door frames, light fixtures, cabinet interiors, and the tile grout in a bathroom that has been re-caulked four times. Most of these apartments are old. That means the dust hides in places its hard to reach, and steam heat pushes it around all winter.

A deep cleaning goes after all of that. Deep cleans take longer but their worth it, especially as the first visit before a recurring plan starts. It is also what we recommend after a renovation, after a bad allergy stretch, or when you have just moved somewhere that was cleaned by the last tenant on their way out the door. If you want a sense of what products work on old grout and painted surfaces, Consumer Reports keeps solid independent testing on cleaning supplies. See exactly what we cover on the deep cleaning checklist, or book the deep cleaning service directly.

Ongoing care

Recurring Cleaning on the calendar.

The cleanest apartments we walk into are not cleaned harder. They are cleaned regularly. A recurring plan puts home care on the calendar before your week eats it. Weekly works for households with kids or pets. Bi-weekly is the most popular by a wide margin. Monthly suits people who tidy as they go and just want the deep work handled.

Recurring visits cost less per clean than one-offs, and we try hard to keep you with the same cleaner. Need to skip a week because you are out of town? Move it in the booking system, no penalty within the window on our rescheduling policy. Plan discounts are listed on the pricing page, and you can set up a recurring cleaning plan in a couple of minutes.

Beyond scrubbing

Housekeeping Service for day-to-day order.

Cleaning and housekeeping are not quite the same thing. Cleaning is about dirt. Housekeeping is about order. Beds made and linens changed. Dishes out of the sink and into the rack. Shoes lined up instead of piled by the door. Towels swapped for fresh ones. Countertops cleared so the kitchen actually works.

Our housekeeping service handles that layer of upkeep along with the cleaning. Leave the fresh sheets out and we will make the bed with them. If you have a specific way you like the kitchen set up, tell us once and we will follow it every visit. This is the option we recommend for people who work long hours and want to walk in to an apartment that feels settled, not just disinfected. Curious how a visit runs start to finish? The how it works page walks through it, and preparing for your cleaning covers the five minutes of prep that helps most.

For hosts and small landlords

AirBnB Cleaning Service between checkouts.

Short-term rental turnovers are their own thing. You get a narrow window between one guest leaving and the next arriving, and the clean has to be photo-consistent every single time. We handle linens, towels, kitchen reset, bathroom reset, trash, and a restock check on the supplies you leave for guests. Then a walk-through so nothing is missed before the next check-in.

Hosts also get a heads-up if something is off, like a chipped mug, a burnt-out bulb, or a stain that needs more than a turnover clean. Occassionally that early warning saves a bad review. If you manage more than one unit, we can stack turnovers on the same route. Start with the rental cleaning checklist, then look at short-term rental cleaning, turnover cleaning, and rental property cleaning.