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Best Bargain Upholsterer

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    When you’re looking to get another few years out of that armchair instead of buying new—and who isn’t these days?—this family of expert East Harlem upholsterers provides something nearly as good: high-quality, economic re-covering. The 50-year-old firm run by Frank Cangelosi Sr. and his son and daughter performs seamless work with free pickup and delivery citywide (most upholsterers charge, sometimes in the hundreds), inexpensively enough that it’s worth it for thrift-store finds as well as heirlooms. The Cangelosis shy away from giving general prices, but a decorator we love recently sent them a set of dining chairs for which they charged $90 apiece; everyone else she tried came in around $120.

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