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Manhattan · The Bronx · Westchester · New Jersey
Apartments, houses, offices and pianos, moved by a family business. Licensed and insured in New York and New Jersey.
U.S. DOT 967970 · MC-432549 · NYSDOT 34875 · NJPM 000930
Where we move
Most of our jobs are in these three places. We also go to New Jersey, the other boroughs, Long Island and Connecticut.

Walk-ups, brownstones, prewar co-ops and doorman buildings. We book the job around your elevator slot and send the management office our certificate of insurance.
Moving to Manhattan guide
Riverdale co-ops, walk-ups and houses. Our trucks use the truck routes, because New York parkways are closed to commercial vehicles.
Bronx moves
Houses, townhouses and apartments in Yonkers, New Rochelle, White Plains, Scarsdale and the river towns.
Bronx to Westchester guideServices
Each move gets a crew and a truck sized to it. A studio walk-up and a four-bedroom house are not the same job.

How it works
Both addresses, your date and what is moving: an apartment, a house, an office or a piano. Use the form or phone us.
How many flights? Is there an elevator to reserve? Where can the truck stop? Your answers go into the free estimate we give you.
Furniture is padded and, where needed, taken apart. At the new place each piece goes where you point, and what we took apart is put back together.

Many Manhattan co-ops and doorman buildings ask the mover for an insurance certificate and give you a set time for the elevator. Get the sample COI from the management office and send it to us. We make out our certificate to match it.
Free estimateOur photos
Taken by us on our own jobs in the city.



Moving guides
Truck routes, building rules, renters' rights and piano moves, checked against city, state and federal pages.
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Questions
The interstates and the city's truck routes. New York closes its parkways to commercial vehicles, including the Henry Hudson, Bronx River, Hutchinson River, Mosholu and Pelham parkways, so we plan the route before the move.
Yes. It crosses a state line, so it falls under our federal license, U.S. DOT No. 967970 (MC-432549). Moves inside New York fall under our New York license, NYSDOT 34875.
Yes. Send us your building's sample COI and we issue our certificate to match, straight to the management office.
Yes. Baby grands and uprights, in walk-ups, elevator buildings and houses. Tell us the number of flights and the size of the piano when you ask for your estimate.
Yes. We load at your home, take everything to the storage space, and bring it out to your new home when you are ready.
Call (929) 232-3444 or use the form on this page. The estimate costs nothing.
Ask about your own building or date:(929) 232-3444
Free estimate
Give us the two addresses and the date, and we get back to you with a free estimate.