Worried About Moving Your Fragile Items?

Are you worried about maintaining the integrity of your items during your upcoming move? Packing and moving large, fragile, or valuable items in NYC is inherently tricky. Narrow hallways and staircases, small rooms, doorways and elevators can prove challenging for movers who lack the necessary skills and training they need in order to navigate these kinds of spaces during a moving job. Additionally, objects such as antiques, fine art, crystal, and china require a higher level of attention and care during the packing and moving process. 

At Brownstone Brothers Moving and Storage, we possess the special skills required to pack and move all your precious belongings and transport them safely to their destination, undamaged. 

Brownstone Brothers is a high-end, boutique moving company with 50 years of familiarity with buildings in Manhattan and surrounding boroughs. 

We have extensive experience moving items from apartment buildings, brownstones, and walk-ups, as well as galleries, auction houses, and art studios. This means we have the knowledge and expertise necessary to pack and move your most delicate items, under any circumstances. 

Well-Trained, Experienced Movers

At Brownstone Brothers, we hand-select and train each of our movers to ensure that your large, fragile, or valuable items arrive safely at their destination. Packing and moving items such as antiques, fine art, crystal and china requires a high level of care due to the fragility and value of each item. Transporting items of this nature in and out of NYC buildings exposes them to the threat of being mishandled, damaged, or broken, so it is imperative that you select a moving company that has experience in this field.  Our movers will ensure that your high-value objects arrive at their destination in pristine condition.   

High-Quality, Specialized Packing Materials

Brownstone Brothers utilizes specialized packing materials, such as acid-free archival paper, and custom-sized boxes and crates tailored to fit paintings, sculptures, and other fine art. Each piece is packed securely with materials tailored to the specifications of the item, ensuring that it is protected throughout the transportation process.

When selecting an NYC moving company to pack and move your fragile and/or delicate items, be sure to verify the company’s ability to transport your items to their destination without sustaining any damage. At Brownstone Brothers, we take every measure to ensure that all of your belongings arrive at your new home or storage unit unharmed. 

Feel free to contact us via phone or email with any questions or concerns you may have about moving your large, fragile or valuable items. We are here to help you!

Phone: (718) 665-5000

Email: info@brownstonebros.com 

Protect Yourself From Covid During Your Move

Unfortunately, most of the knowledge of covid relating to household moving is anecdotal or based on rumor.  The method of transmission and prevention of infection is not precisely known.  We do know that covid-19 is airborne. Masks (N95, possibly others) and social distancing (though the length of distance is now questioned) have been found to be effective. Curiously, most of the time all masks are considered equal, but, of course, they are not. Social tracing proceeds on the supposition that covid is most likely transmitted by a 10 minute close, verbal interaction between two people. There is not much else known for certain about scientific particulars.  For example, whether the disease can be transmitted by viruses  picked up from household objects is not clear, is becoming, at least anecdotally, accepted.

Moving company websites have advertised that their men wear masks and gloves, and try to maintain “social distance”.  This is fine but not really enough.  Masks vary greatly in effectiveness, and many moving companies, just like committed joggers,  are now ready to admit that under physical duress, it is simply impossible to be always wearing a mask. Men should be encouraged to take short breaks after heavy exertion. What is not often pointed out is this: the customer should always be wearing a mask and that mask should be N-(95), or KN95. Brownstone Brothers Moving will supply such masks to customers if they need them. It would be helpful to work with smaller moving crews rather than moving crews larger than 6 men, for example.  To summarize:

•  The proven facts about covid transmission are few.

•  The standard techniques many other moving companies use presently are insufficient and inconsistently carried out.

•  The customer should depend on his own personal safety measures.

•  These measures should include an N-95 mask and  also social distancing whenever possible. 

In fact, Brownstone has been working right through the pandemic with no cases reported of infection among movers or customers.

Still have questions or concerns? Get in touch!

Phone: (718) 665-5000

Email: info@brownstonebros.com