Looking for an optician

[redbird]

I want to get new glasses made. I have a prescription (I saw the eye doctor a week ago). What I don't have is a local optician I like.

I'm looking for either a recommendation of an optician in New York (Manhattan, the nearer bits of Brooklyn or Queens, or the northwest Bronx), or maybe slightly further afield, if on transit (PATH, or Bee Line bus if it's one bus to the subway system), or advice on how to pick an optician.

Yes, if necessary I can go to LensCrafters or Cohen's Fashion Optical, but I would as soon not navigate their "sale prices" that aren't actually cheaper than someone else's ordinary price).

Comments

[erik]

Certainly not local, but I get my glasses from www.zennioptical.com

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how complicated your prescription is, but mine is not uncomplicated, and I had surprisingly great results ordering online from Zenni Optical (http://www.zennioptical.com/home.php). As far as a brick-and-mortar location goes, my best friend's girlfriend sang the praises of Union Square Optical (http://www.unionsquareoptical.com/index.php). It looks like they're having a sale just now down there, too.

[redbird]

Thanks.

Union Square Optical looks tempting, in part because it definitely counts as convenient. (I was disappointed by Zenni; I don't know whether this is something about my prescription—I don't know whether it counts as complicated, beyond being progressive lenses, or whether I got the pupillary distance measurement wrong.)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Zenni is great if there are no problems with your glasses, which means that simple prescriptions are best. If you have a problem, their customer service doesn't have a very good reputation.

Did you have the pupillary distance measurement done for you or did you measure it yourself?

(I have two identical pairs of glasses from Zenni which I'm using on this trip.)

[redbird]

I copied it off a card at the place that made my last pair of non-mail-order glasses, and it's possible I got it wrong there. (They weren't exactly eager to give me the information.)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

The optician put my PD on the printout with the rest, which is probably why my Zenni glasses (four -- progressive, two reading, one computer, and all very strong) worked well. My eyes have gotten worse in the last two years so I have the same PD but new prescriptions on the printout.

[catelynn.livejournal.com]

Mark has a place on 165th ST bet Bway and FWA across from Harkness (NYPH). You can ping him directly if you need the precise info; he has the card in his file.