86th St Photo & Portrait Studio

Good place for a quick passport photo. Professional setup and fast, friendly service. The quality of the photos is always great and you can depend on the dimensions being right.

Agree with most of the reviewers here. The woman who works here is HORRIBLE. She is rude and argumentative. She told me something I wrote in an email made them waste paper (regarding orientation of the print) — however, a simple email asking for clarification would have been a better approach than berating me in front of a store full of customers. Avoid this place if you can.

great quality photo development and enlargement. of course it doesnt hurt that im a regular customer as it takes time for the staff to warm up, but when they get to know you they are quality, and expedious with service.
i recommend!

Every single time I go into this store looking for something they don’t have it. Film is overpriced by 3 – 4 dollars. They DO NOT do one hour processing, in fact I was told 2 days for 1 roll of 120 b&w. whatsoever. They DO NOT sell anything pertaining to the dark room. They are the reason film is dying and quite honestly I have no idea what service they provide (other than framing, as if there’s not enough framers?) They won’t be in business much longer and they will not change their ways (I’ve spoken to multiple staff about this.) I’d love to do my part and help keep a small business alive; but these guys are the reason I give thousands a year to Amazon, eBay, and any other store instead of this local business. This «photo store» only cares about selling overpriced head shots taken with the most basic consumer camera, and shitty frames. Please take your business somewhere else so this place can close before I’m let down any further.

the owner explained printing a transparency in one sentence. She’ll always have my business! –Larry M

These guys actually do decent work. They have no customer skills though and what is particularly irritating is that the computers available to upload your pictures for printing simply don’t work.

Myself, my wife and my two year old all got passport photos here at separate times. The woman who works there was great with my daughter.

I needed passport photo for infant. I got them for 5 min. Great services, fast and easy.

If you have another choice, don’t come over to do your passport photo. I need a digital passport photo and that’s why I came over but the service was horrible-​I was asked to wait for 30min to get the digital copy done and when I came back they said it would take another 20min!!! Nobody tells you how many free prints you can get until you realize that when you need to pay… I asked why they didn’t tell customer how they charge the fees and the guy said-​nothing is free here… OMG, this is the most horrible place I’ve ever had.

Went here to get photos developed from our vacation. Was told it would be $ 20. Came back and it was $ 40. When I brought it up they were incredibly rude. Save yourself the aggravation and go somewhere else.

The choices of where to go to have your film developed in NY are limited, so when I saw this place near me, I was quite happy to try it. I chose not to buy film because it is way overpriced. I ended up going to a place on 17^th street for that. When I needed a roll of color negative developed, I went here. Now when I asked for a cd, instead of prints, the guy told me they had a deal to get prints free with a cd, or so I thought. I didn’t read the fine print and i ended up being charged for the prints (half price). *note: this isn’t why I gave 1 star* So when I came back, I was told that I would be charged and rather trying to work something out or kindly inform me that there was a mistake, the staff became very rude and acted like I was trying to pull one over on them. I said I didn’t mind paying (even though it was the most I have ever paid for the service) but they continued to act very rudely. Finally, I got out of there and wouldn’t you know it, all of my photos had a crease right down the middle… So, I will continue my search for a decent place to develop my film. I am open to suggestions if you have them. All in all, this place gets a 1 for the quality of customer service and for the quality of work this place produces in printing photos.

Film photographers, beware.
I dropped off some rolls to be processed here; most came back fine, but one of them came back weirdly bent, smudged with fingerprints, and with one of my images chopped in half. I got one roll scanned, and the scans were poorly-​done and with a couple exposures missing.
Also, the people working here were pretty rude about the whole thing. And the prices were relatively high. To be clear: I wouldn’t complain about kinda-​rough customer service or kinda-​high prices if the place gave back clean, carefully-​handled negatives and scans. With these guys, that seems to be something of a crapshoot.
The sense I get from this place is that they’re just not very conscientious or respectful when it comes to peoples’ film. If you care about your images — and if you’re someone who shoots film in the here-​and-​now, you likely care about your images a good deal — then you should probably think twice about trusting this place with your negatives.

THE WORST ATTITUDE EVER!
If I could give this business zero stars, I would. I have spent a great deal of money there, but their rudeness has gotten to the point where I can no longer do business with them. The owners wife is one of the nastiest people I have ever had to deal with. She won’t answer questions, a d it’s either do it her way or the highway. She ripped up a picture of my daughter and her husband right in front of me! Who does that?
Stay far away!

I had the worst experience at this place. The machine froze and the guy was huffing and puffing when I asked for help. He was mad about how many photos I had on my USB (what the???). The man and the woman who work there were having a screaming match with each other while there were customers in the store. Then the woman was asking me «how much longer will you be», trying to rush me. Then they were trying to rip me off with ridiculous prices. The icing on the cake was when they told me the price they had originally told me was wrong and that they had to charge me more. At which point I told them they are extremely rude, and to expect a bad review (and cancel my order!). I left the store very angry. The rudeness was completely unnecessary. I will never come here again. If there were a zero star option, I’d choose that.

Come here and pay a little bit extra to enjoy their specialty: extreme rudeness. Fine, this may be a bad place if you want high quality pictures (or even acceptable quality ones). But it is an unsurpassed place for masochists. Considering how much maltreatment you get here for your buck, it’s actually super cheap.

VERY RUDE! Don’t buy worst experience. I just called for a question and a lady answered was very rude. I was comparing the price of digital copy of a passport photos, and the place was the most expensive place out of 7 places called in the New York City today. ($ 23.99= $ 13.99 basic charge + $ 10.00 extra for digital process) I just spoke myself, «Oh, that’s expensive…» The woman obviously get annoyed and sighed to me through phone, then abruptly hanged up the phone. I was talking to her at that time!!! when I almost said «OK, thank you for your assistance.» I suddenly heard the noisy clash she hanged her phone after her annoyed sigh. That was it. Beside such treatment for customer, the price is ridiculous. Places like Photo Mission ($ 19.99 for same service), Photobar ($ 20.00), ThisPix ($ 20.00) etc are cheaper and most importably pleasant.

I very rarely write reviews but this one is needed. For all photographers who shoot film I highly urge you to reconsider dropping your film off here, super over priced and very mediocre quality. If your willing to spend this much I highly recommend color lab or luster downtown, where at least you will get very high quality service/​product at the end and even still save $$.

I think the place is great for passport photos. I had an older Russian guy taking mine and he took it a few times and let me chose which one I like better. He was knowledgable about different parameters and what different consulates require. $ 15 for 6 photos compared to $ 45 at the post office.

Awful service. I asked for passport photos for me and my daughter but had to leave before a single shot was taken because of the terrible attitude. Definitely do not recommend!

Made 6 Schengen pics for only $ 15! Great and quick service. Highly recommended!