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Is manhattanshades.com legit or a scam?
Established NYC motorized shades and blinds retailer with 19-year domain history, active business registration, and positive customer reviews.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
Manhattan Shades operates as a registered, active family business in New York specializing in custom motorized shades, blinds, and window treatments. The domain was registered approximately 19 years ago, and business directories confirm the operator (Jacob/Yaacov Avital) and a physical address on the Upper West Side. Customer feedback on Yelp (3.9/5 stars across 14 reviews) and Angi (5.0/5) consistently praises quality, timely installation, and reasonable pricing. Our web research found zero scam reports, complaints, or fraud allegations across multiple consumer-review platforms and complaint databases. The business maintains active social-media presence and lists a phone number and Gmail contact address — while the Gmail is not ideal for a mature business, it is not uncommon for small local service providers. The SSL certificate is valid, the hosting IP has no abuse history, and our antivirus network flagged no malicious content.
Website Preview
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for manhattanshades.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered ~19 years ago (6962 days); business claims 10+ years experience in motorized shades, blinds, curtains for NYC market.
- Physical address listed as 252 W 76th St #1D, New York, NY 10023; owner identified as Jacob/Yaacov Avital via LinkedIn and business directories.
- Positive customer feedback on Yelp (3.9/5 from 14 reviews, praising quality, timely installation, reasonable pricing) and Angi (5.0/5).
- Active presence on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook with promotional content for custom motorized shades; email manhattanshades@gmail.com and phone (212) 970-9474 listed.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative reviews found across searches for 'scam', 'complaint', 'fraud', Reddit, BBB, or Trustpilot.
- Distinguished from older, established 'Manhattan Shade & Associates' (since 1926 at different site); this appears to be a separate, smaller operation.
- ZoomInfo and other directories list it as a family-owned custom window coverings business with no red flags.
- Yelpopen
"These guys are super high quality at a reasonable price. Installation has been amazingly timely and the owner is even throwing in an extra battery powered ..."
- Angiopen
"Yes, I recommend this pro. They were great, I've been working with them with them for years, I'm very happy with their work, and I highly recommend them."
Operated by Jacob Avital / Yaacov Avital, family-owned, address 252 W 76th St #1D, New York, NY 10023; LinkedIn and ZoomInfo list as active window treatment business with 10-25+ years claimed experience
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, business registries, and general web sources for Manhattan Shades and manhattanshades.com. We found zero scam reports or fraud complaints. The business is registered and active in New York under the operator Jacob/Yaacov Avital, with a confirmed physical address. Independent customer reviews on Yelp (3.9/5 stars, 14 reviews) and Angi (5.0/5) are consistently positive, citing quality workmanship, timely installation, and reasonable pricing. No negative allegations or disputes were found across consumer-review aggregators, Reddit, or complaint databases.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed ((212) 970-9474).
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://manhattanshades.com/
- 2200https://manhattanshades.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions Google (non-official domain).
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page mentions Google (non-official domain).
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on manhattanshades.com and not a lookalike like m-anhattanshades.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on manhattanshades.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- manhattanshades.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 81/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. manhattanshades.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 64 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- manhattanshades.com is 19.1 years old, registered on 5/16/2007 through Squarespace Domains II LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report manhattanshades.com as clean.
- No. manhattanshades.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- manhattanshades.com resolves to an IP operated by Brander Group Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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