Brooklyn is mostly brownstones, walk ups and converted houses rather than towers with loading docks, so the delivery here is a stairs problem more often than a lift problem.
The crossing is the easy part. Goods clear through the New York and New Jersey port complex, roughly eight to seventeen days from the UK, then cross into the borough. Four to six weeks door to door is typical.
Measure the front door, the narrowest point of the staircase and the turn at the landing. Those three numbers answer almost everything a surveyor needs to know, and they decide whether a piece goes up whole, goes up dismantled, or does not go up at all.
Brownstone stoops mean a flight of steps before the front door is even reached. Walk up buildings without lifts are common, and an upper floor delivery takes substantially longer than the same shipment on a ground floor. Neither is a problem for a crew that knows in advance and both are a problem for one that does not.
Larger furniture sometimes cannot make a landing turn at all. Occasionally a hoist is the answer, in buildings with the right windows, and that has to be arranged well ahead rather than decided on the morning. More often the answer is dismantling, and sometimes the honest answer is that the piece should not travel.
Street rules govern where and how long a vehicle can stand, so the crew plans parking in advance rather than circling on the morning.
Customs, briefly: clearance is done at the port complex before anything reaches the building, which is just as well given how long the stairs can take. Effects used by you, or in a household where you lived, for a year normally enter free of duty. See duty free eligibility and goods owned under twelve months.
Goods clear through the New York and New Jersey port complex, roughly eight to seventeen days from the UK depending on the service. Allow four to six weeks door to door.
Because most Brooklyn buildings have no lift. The number of flights and the tightness of the turns set the crew size and the length of the day.
It is dismantled, and occasionally it will not go at all. A survey that asks about staircases catches this before your things are on a ship.
Sometimes, for large pieces in buildings with the right window arrangement. It has to be arranged well in advance rather than decided on the day.
Street rules govern where and how long a vehicle can stand, so the crew plans it in advance rather than circling on the morning.
Rarely, for a Brooklyn flat. Shared container space suits most moves here and costs considerably less.
The front door, the narrowest point of the stairs and the turn at the landing. Those three numbers answer most of the questions a surveyor will have.
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Effects used by you, or in a household where you were a resident, for a year normally do. Newer items are declared separately.
Send the collection address, the Brooklyn address with the floor and whether there is a lift, your date and a rough inventory. A moving company from our network takes it from there.
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Written by Darren Benjamin, Founder.