A laundry room with a front-load dryer in a prewar New York apartment with a tight laundry closet, narrow hardwood floors and painted trim, seen wider, the room around the dryer and its matching washer.

Manhattan, New York Metro

Dryer repair in Greenwich Village.

Inside the Village's historic district, redevelopment is severely restricted and a renovation must keep the building's main facade.

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What Greenwich Village does
to a dryer.

The Greenwich Village Historic District, designated in 1969, remained the largest in the city for four decades.

The Gansevoort Market Historic District of 2003 protects 112 buildings on 11 blocks of the Meatpacking District.

The Weehawken Street Historic District, designated in 2006, covers 14 buildings, among them a former sailors' hotel, old stables and a wooden house.

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Older housing stock

Protected exteriors and historic district rules can limit where a new dryer vent may exit, which is one reason ventless dryers turn up in older buildings. Where the old vent has to stay, it is cleaned and checked more often, not less.

Small homes

Small homes put the dryer wherever it fits: a hallway closet, a stacked pair in a kitchen corner, or a 24-inch compact model under a counter. A tight closet starves a dryer of make-up air, and a louvered door or a gap at the bottom can change how well it dries.

Designed laundry rooms

A designed laundry room often places the dryer where it looks best rather than where the vent is shortest, and a run that crosses a ceiling or turns several times is a common reason a new, high-end dryer takes too long.