Sunset Park Jewelry Repair Shop, Six Days: Gold & Silver

Some repair shops hand you a ticket and a pickup date two weeks away. Gold & Silver Jewelry Repair, a family shop on 39th Street in Sunset Park, built its reputation on the opposite approach. Its website promises expert, on-the-spot jewelry repair, and customers who leave reviews keep describing the same scene: a snapped chain or a ring that no longer fits, fixed at the counter while they waited. If you live in South Brooklyn and want a repair done today rather than next week, this is the shop to know.

The shop introduces its staff as the family team. Luis Sr. is listed as owner, Luis Jr. as manager and Oscar on sales. It is a small neighborhood business rather than a chain, and in 2020 it moved a few doors down the same block to its current storefront. Like most shops of its kind, it depends on people from the surrounding blocks coming back year after year, which is a good reason to do quick work well.

The name is literal. The shop works in gold and silver, the metals most everyday jewelry is made from, and it also handles watch repairs, including battery replacement. If you have a drawer of broken pieces at home, a thin chain with a dead clasp, an earring missing its back, a ring that has gone out of round, this is the kind of counter where you can bring all of them in one trip.

On the spot covers the jobs that a skilled bench jeweler can finish in minutes rather than days. Soldering a broken link, replacing a spring ring or lobster clasp, tightening a loose jump ring, or sizing a plain band all fall into that category. The jeweler fires up a small torch, solders the joint, cools and pickles the piece, then polishes it before handing it back.

The website does not post a price list. It does offer an online quote form, and the shop says you can get a quote that way, which is handy if you want an idea of the cost before making the trip. For anything small, though, most people simply bring the piece in and ask.

A few habits make chain repairs go better. Keep every fragment, including the tiny ring that attached the clasp, since soldering the original link is neater than adding a new one. Do not try to close a gap with pliers at home, because a pinched link is harder to solder cleanly. And if a chain keeps breaking in the same spot, ask whether a sturdier clasp or jump ring would stop it happening again.

Silver pieces are worth a separate word. Sterling darkens with time, especially when it sits in a drawer, and a professional polish at the counter is usually quicker and safer than dips sold for home use, which can strip oxidized detail from engraved or textured designs. If a silver chain has kinked as well as tarnished, have the kink worked out before polishing, since buffing can catch a bent link and snap it.

The shop is open Monday to Saturday from 11 am to 7 pm and closed on Sunday, according to the hours on its website. A review posted in July 2026 complained that a listing elsewhere had shown the shop open on a Sunday, so go by the hours on the shop's own site, and call ahead if you are making a special trip. Late afternoon on a weekday is usually the easiest time to find the bench free.

Bring the piece in a small bag or box, and if a stone has fallen out, bring that too, even if it looks chipped. Matching a replacement is always harder than resetting the original.

The shop sits in a part of Brooklyn worth exploring on foot. A few blocks toward the waterfront, Industry City has turned a row of old warehouse buildings into food halls, design shops and courtyards, and it is an easy place to sit with a coffee while a repair is finished. Walk uphill the other way and you reach Green-Wood Cemetery, a nineteenth-century landscape of hills, ponds and monuments. Its Gothic Revival main gate on Fifth Avenue is a landmark in its own right, and on a clear day the high ground looks out toward the harbor.

Sunset Park itself, the green space the neighborhood is named after, is a short walk south and has some of the best skyline views in the borough from its hilltop. Eighth Avenue to the east is the heart of Brooklyn's largest Chinatown, if you want dumplings after your errand.

The nearest subway is 36th Street on Fourth Avenue, served by the D, N and R trains, a few blocks from the shop. One reviewer on the shop's site noted that the N train made it a quick trip.

Address: Gold & Silver Jewelry Repair, at 507 39th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232, in Sunset Park. Hours: Monday to Saturday 11 am to 7 pm, closed Sunday. No appointment is mentioned, and repairs are done on the spot when the job allows. Services include jewelry repair in gold and silver, chain soldering, clasp replacement, ring sizing and watch repair with battery replacement. Prices are not posted online, but an online quote form is available on the shop's website.

Bring every broken piece and any loose stones in one bag. If you have time to fill, the Karpo APP can suggest a food hall stall at Industry City or a dumpling spot on Eighth Avenue nearby.