Brooklyn, NY Movers

Brownstones, row houses and two and three family homes

Park Slope and Carroll Gardens are full of brownstones, limestones and row houses, and you find the same kind of building across much of the borough. Many are split into floor-through apartments, and a few have a stoop, a front garden or a garden-level entrance. Each of those adds a carry to every box and every piece of furniture.

A narrow staircase with a turn at the landing is the usual slow point. A sofa that goes up in one piece in a different building may have to be turned, tilted or taken apart here, and a bed frame or wardrobe that cannot make the turn is taken apart and put back together at the other end. Tell us the floor and the stairs at both addresses and we plan the crew around it.

Elevator buildings, doormen and certificates of insurance

The taller buildings in Brooklyn have elevators, and the high-rises are mostly rentals and condos. These buildings often ask the mover for a certificate of insurance and want the elevator booked ahead for moving day. Ask the building management what it needs early, then tell us, and we send what the building asks for.

If you are moving between a walk-up and a doorman building, say so when you call. The two ends of the move can have very different rules, and it is easier to plan around them than to find out on the morning.

Parking and the carry from the truck to the door

On a lot of Brooklyn blocks there is nowhere good to stop a truck, and alternate side parking can change where we can stand from one day to the next. A longer carry from the truck to your door takes time, so it belongs in the plan from the start. Confirm the parking restrictions for the block at both addresses before moving day, and mention anything you know about the street when you ask for a quote.

Neighborhood by neighborhood

Our office is on Greene Avenue, so the brownstones and older walk-ups around it are home turf. Greenpoint mixes newer waterfront buildings with older walk-ups inland, and Park Slope is brownstones and limestones, many split into floor-through apartments.

Bushwick has frame houses, converted industrial buildings and newer mid-rise rentals, and we have a separate page for it. Sunset Park is row houses and walk-ups up the hill, with industrial and commercial buildings by the water. For a commercial move there, send us a layout of the new space. In Brooklyn Heights the same questions apply as anywhere else: floors, stairs, elevator, and where the truck can stop.

Moving out of Brooklyn, or into it

A move from Brooklyn into Manhattan or Queens is a local move, and so is a move from one Brooklyn neighborhood to the next. Moving out of the state is a long distance move, and our long distance service covers nationwide moves. If your dates do not line up, we keep your belongings in our climate-controlled, secure storage until the new place is ready.

We can pack for you too, and unpack at the other end. Do the whole home, or just the kitchen and the breakable pieces. Packing and unpacking is on the services page.