Junk Removal on the
Upper West Side

A standard UWS family cleanout in a 2-3 bedroom apartment runs 90 minutes to 3 hours, depending on how much accumulated kid gear you have. Cribs, changing tables, glider rockers, and the stroller fleet are the bulk. We can coordinate a separate Housing Works pickup for anything in donation condition (cribs less than 5 years old, gliders, etc.) — they'll often come the same day or next day.

Multi-floor brownstone clearouts are usually 1-2 day jobs. Day 1 walk-through with you to identify keep/donate/discard piles in each space. Day 1 afternoon or Day 2 morning starts the actual hauling. Garden-level access on most UWS brownstone blocks means the truck pulls right up — no carrying through the parlor floor. Typical 2-floor brownstone clearout runs $1,200-$2,800 depending on density.

Most CPW buildings are managed by Brown Harris Stevens, Halstead, or Rose Associates — agents we work with regularly. COIs typically clear within 24 hours, sometimes same-day. The slot assignment from the resident manager usually follows the same day. Plan on 24-48 hours from booking to pickup for a doorman building.

Yes. Original-banister UWS brownstones are common; our crews carry moving blankets and corner protectors as standard equipment. We pre-wrap any item that's going to brush a railing or door frame. If anything is at risk of damage (e.g., a very wide armoire on a narrow staircase), we'll flag it before starting and disassemble in place.

Yes — every pre-war co-op along Central Park West, West End, Riverside Drive, and most of the 70s-80s blocks requires a Certificate of Insurance before any contractor or hauler enters. Standard: $1M GL + $2M umbrella, building entity + managing agent named as additional insureds. We email the COI to your managing agent within an hour of booking. UWS managing agents we work with regularly include Brown Harris Stevens, Halstead, Cooper Cooper, and Rose Associates.

Family-stage cleanouts are one of our biggest UWS job types. Cribs, changing tables, glider rockers, the entire stroller graveyard, kid bookshelves, plastic toy storage, outgrown beds. A typical 2-3 bedroom UWS family apartment cleanout runs 2-4 hours. We coordinate Housing Works pickup separately if anything is in donation condition.

The UWS brownstone stock between Columbus and Amsterdam in the 70s-80s has full basements that accumulate decades of stuff. Garden-level access on most blocks lets us pull the truck right up. These are usually multi-floor cleanouts — basement, plus the parlor, plus whatever's in storage.

Columbus Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue are bus-laned and tightly enforced; we don't try to park trucks on the avenues themselves. Crews stage on the cross streets (70th, 72nd, 79th, 86th, 96th) and walk the load over. Side streets between Columbus and Amsterdam usually allow short loading-zone use mid-day on weekdays.

Yes. The modern condo towers around Columbus Circle, Lincoln Center, and along Broadway in the 60s-70s (Time Warner Center, the Aldyn, the Avery, 200 Amsterdam) have managed-building protocols similar to the UES: COI to managing agent, freight-elevator slots through the resident manager. We've worked in most of them.