Bostonian Glass Company

Bostonian Glass Company is a Boston glass shop built for the call nobody wants to make — a shattered door, a broken storefront window, glass everywhere and someone needed on-site now. Reviewers keep landing on the same theme: speed. In an April 2025 review, a customer describes texting a photo of a break-in-damaged Brookline storefront on a Sunday morning and having someone on-site in 25 minutes; in a separate recent review, a landscaper's weedwhacker kicked a pebble through a door mid-renovation and Gene showed up that same morning to clean up and replace it with safety glass. The company, which also does business as Gene's Emergency Glass Service, pairs that emergency work with routine frameless shower doors, mirrors, and storefront glass, per its own site. The written record runs deep: 42 reviews from 2019 to 2026 across six sources, and the last six months brought nine, all five stars. A custom shower-glass and hardware job finished quickly from deposit to delivery earlier this summer, and a four-unit property needing six glass shower doors went in and out easily this spring. Older accounts add texture without changing the picture — in a late-2025 review, a homeowner describes Gene pulling century-old glass out of French doors with tricky molding and returning with the replacement almost instantly; a 2021 review says his shower-door quote came in at a third of the first competing bid and the door installed then has held up since. Not every account is glowing. A 2025 review describes a price that got renegotiated upward after the customer had already paid a deposit and driven the glass over for delivery. Two 2024 reviews describe trouble getting a response once something went wrong — one after a shower door leaked from the day it was installed, the other after a phone call for a quote went unanswered. A 2022 review separately calls the crew unprofessional and messy. They're a minority against the five-star run, but worth knowing before calling. Bostonian Glass Company is a solid call for an urgent glass emergency or a custom shower-door install; Angi's profile credits the company with 16 years in the trade. Get the price confirmed in writing before the glass is cut, and ask directly how they'd handle a callback if something needs adjusting after install.