Manhattan is the toughest borough to move in: co-op boards, doorman towers with reserved freight, and prewar walk-ups with no elevator, all on streets where a truck spot is a fight. Our crews handle all of it, so your move anywhere on the island runs on schedule.
From a Financial District freight window to an Upper East Side co-op board to a five-flight East Village walk-up, Manhattan throws every kind of building rule at a move. Since 2013 we have worked every neighborhood on the island, uptown to downtown. The manhattan movers who get it right file the COI, book the service elevator, and count the walk-up flights before the date, because on this island the paperwork and the access are half the job.
A dedicated crew, blankets in the price, and the building paperwork handled before the date. Co-ops get their COI and service-elevator window; walk-ups get their flights counted; towers get their freight reserved, so nothing stalls at the door.
We lock the building access first, because in Manhattan that is what stalls a move. Four steps that keep the doorman happy and the day on schedule.
On this island the move is only half the job. The other half is satisfying co-op boards, supers, and doormen who have seen careless crews scuff a lobby, and knowing which walk-up needs more hands. That is where most movers slip.
Our movers are in-house W-2 staff, uniformed and background-checked, exactly what a prewar co-op wants in its lobby. We file the COIs the boards require, respect the elevator windows, count the walk-up flights, and pad the walls before the first box. We have moved every Manhattan neighborhood since 2013, and that range is what keeps our moves off the sidewalk and out of the building manager’s complaint file.