Bronx, NY
Where We Work in the Bronx
We are based on Muliner Avenue in Van Nest and we take demolition work across the borough. The Bronx is not one job, so here is what actually changes from one part of it to another.
What changes is the building, not the address
A demolition estimate is really an estimate about access, material and hours. All three are set by the kind of building you are in, and the Bronx's building stock changes sharply from one neighborhood to the next.
A six-storey pre-war building with one shared elevator, a two-family house with a driveway, and a Hunts Point warehouse with a loading bay are three different jobs even when the scope on paper is identical. That is the difference worth knowing about, so that is what the sections below describe.
01 Our own blocks
Van Nest, Morris Park and Pelham Parkway
Attached brick two-family houses with short driveways along the side streets, and six-storey pre-war apartment buildings along the avenues and the parkway.
In the houses the container goes in the driveway and material leaves by the side door, which makes these among the simplest jobs in the borough. In the apartment buildings the one passenger elevator is shared with everyone who lives there, so material moves in the windows the super releases, through a protected cab.
Our own premises are at 1869 Muliner Ave, Bronx, NY 10462, in the middle of it.
02 The Concourse
Grand Concourse, Fordham, Kingsbridge and Norwood
The borough's great pre-war apartment stock: Art Deco and Tudor buildings of six storeys, one passenger elevator, plaster on lath, parquet over sleepers, and a lobby that a hundred households pass through every morning.
The Grand Concourse is a historic district, so a permitted interior job files with Landmarks first. For a strip-out that leaves protected features alone that is a Certificate of No Effect, staff level and usually about ten business days. The lobby and the cab get protected before anything comes down, because the super remembers a scuffed cab far longer than a tidy job.
03 The South Bronx
Mott Haven, Hunts Point, Melrose and Morrisania
Five-storey walk-ups with no elevator at all, where everything leaves by the stair, beside the borough's industrial blocks in Hunts Point and Port Morris, where a loading bay and a container off the street make a warehouse floor the easiest route out in the Bronx.
Mott Haven and Longwood carry historic district designations along some blocks. The two kinds of building sit within a few streets of each other and are priced completely differently.
04 Houses with driveways
Throgs Neck, Pelham Bay, Soundview and Wakefield
Attached and semi-detached brick houses with driveways and small yards, and pre-war apartment buildings along the main avenues.
The route out is a driveway and a container off the street, which removes the permit and most of the argument, and the schedule usually reflects it. Soundview and Wakefield add a share of walk-ups, which run like the South Bronx ones.
05 The hills
Riverdale and Fieldston
Freestanding houses and small apartment buildings on steep lots with stone retaining walls, mature trees and long driveways.
Access is a slope rather than a stair. A container may not be able to sit level in the driveway, and the route from the house to the street can be the longest in the borough. Fieldston and parts of Riverdale are historic districts, so the Landmarks step applies to permitted work there.
Under the elevated line
We work across the Bronx. The industrial stretches of Hunts Point and Port Morris are covered on the commercial page, because the work there is warehouse strip-out. If you are just outside the borough, our other sites cover the rest of the city, and the number on this page reaches the same people.