Same Block, Two Addresses, Wildly Different Invoices
Mileage means almost nothing to the price of a New York move. Take a fifth-floor pre-war unit in the East Village: the staircase winds, there’s no elevator, and the stoop opens onto a street where every legal spot is taken and a double-parked van blocks the hydrant. Compare that to the doorman high-rise two avenues away, where management won’t release the freight elevator until our Certificate of Insurance sits on file, and the building hands us a single reserved hour at the dock. When Marcus prices the second one, the number reflects the staircase, the slot, and the doorway you’re carrying through, not how far the truck drove. Whoever pads that dresser over in Park Slope is on our payroll, taxed and insured as a regular employee. Staffing off the internet isn’t something we do, and handing your shipment to a separate outfit isn’t either.
Where Borough Pricing Applies
If the job stays inside the five boroughs, it’s local, full stop. That spans Manhattan from the Lower East Side up to Harlem, Brooklyn across Williamsburg, Park Slope, and Bushwick, Queens through Astoria, Long Island City, and Forest Hills, and on into the Bronx and Staten Island. Could be a Fort Greene brownstone duplex, a Chelsea tower with a managed dock, or a Riverdale co-op asking for paperwork two days out. Each one runs the same playbook for us. The everyday hurdles change none of it, be it a dock slot nobody reserved, an alternate-side block where parking is impossible, or a landing so cramped you can barely swing a couch around it.
Standard on Every Booking, Any Borough
- A pair of movers on our payroll; choose the $149/hr meter and the minimum charge runs two hours
- Each item gets its quilted blanket and stretch film right at the curb before it ever goes up the ramp
- We drop floor runners inside both buildings and pad the jambs, the rails, and the corners on both ends
- Tables, bed frames, and the bulky case pieces come apart before loading and get rebuilt at the destination
- Stray bolts and feet end up sealed in a marked bag that’s taped to whatever they came off of
Two Quotes, and We Point You to the Cheaper One
Which option saves you money is clear before a signature goes anywhere. Flat-rate brackets land here: studio $550 to $850, one-bedroom $850 to $1,400, two-bedroom $1,400 to $2,400, three-bedroom $2,400 to $3,900. When the load is light and the trip is short, the meter, $149/hr for a two-person crew with that two-hour floor, sometimes beats every bracket. We total it each way and bill whichever comes out lower.
A Pair of Things Stated Plainly
Run the meter and boxing up your kitchen cabinets falls to you, short of putting packing on the order. Sliding the washer back into its spot, no problem, but a licensed plumber, not our crew, has to reconnect the gas and the water line afterward.
What a Typical NYC Day Looks Like
Here’s the rhythm of an ordinary job, laid out so a no-parking curb or a hard slot deadline catches nobody off guard:
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | The crew shows up inside your reserved elevator window; the lead walks both ends, sets runners, pads the jambs |
| 8:30 AM | Dismantling starts with the back bedrooms, and every screw drops into its own marked bag |
| 10:30 AM | We work furthest-room-first onto the truck, putting items off close to your unpacking order |
| 12:00 PM | A short hop to the next borough; the lead checks every piece against the sheet on its way off |
| 1:00 PM | The heavy case pieces and the beds go up, then boxes travel to whatever room got marked |
| 3:00 PM | A final loop through both places, the count squared off, runners pulled, paperwork signed |
Lock in a crew for any date on the calendar, Saturdays and Sundays too, at (888) 711-4778.
