For Vinny Russo, Kings County is where he grew up, and Admiral Van Lines has spent every year since 2008 carrying loads for the people who live a few blocks over. The borough refuses to repeat itself: easing a sectional down a Carroll Gardens stoop is one puzzle, threading a sofa into the lone freight car of a Greenpoint warehouse loft is a different one, and backing onto a packed Bensonhurst block is a third. Admiral covers the whole sweep of it, from Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill through Park Slope and Bushwick out to Bay Ridge, always on our own rigs with our own W-2 hands.
How Vinny scopes a Brooklyn job ahead of the date
Parlor staircases, posted loft elevators, and a jammed BQE color every morning, so Vinny tours your building and reads the curb a good while before your date arrives.
- Brownstone stoops and parlor floors — Park Slope, Cobble Hill, and Bed-Stuy garden-level doorways where a piano or armoire gets hand-angled around the landing turn.
- Converted-warehouse lofts — Williamsburg lofts off the L at Bedford and Greenpoint conversions along the G, each with a single small freight elevator we book against a fixed window.
- Tight-block houses — Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst multi-family and single-family addresses where the rig wedges in while a clean lane up to your entrance stays open.
- Renter turnovers — the constant studio-and-one-bedroom churn around Bushwick, staffed lean when the load is small so it moves fast.
| Brooklyn move | Typical flat rate |
|---|---|
| Williamsburg loft, one bedroom | $800–$1,350 |
| Park Slope brownstone, two-bedroom floor | $1,350–$2,300 |
| Bay Ridge house, three bedrooms | $2,300–$3,800 |
What your Bensonhurst-built crew charges to move you
✓ Trucks we own, movers on Admiral payroll
- When you call, Vinny or someone at the Admiral desk answers in person, not a hired phone room
- The figure on your contract is exactly what changes hands at the curb, no day-of surcharges and no padded line items.
- One Admiral Van Lines crew packs, loads and unloads every single job
- The load carries $1M in coverage, and your co-op or doorman office gets its COI that same day
- Should anything come up, Vinny looks over the claim himself — nothing leaves the building
× Broker chain
- Whatever you type elsewhere gets routed into a phone room and resold to whoever bids next.
- Delivery-day invoice quietly padded with surprise “add-ons”
- Every time, an unfamiliar truck pulls up with a crew you have never met
- Building-insurance paperwork you end up chasing down yourself
- Damage claims dodged with a “different contractor” excuse
Vinny works two ways here. By the clock, two Admiral movers run $160/hr, a three-person team $220/hr, and a four-person team $290/hr. For most apartments and houses, though, he sets one band instead: a studio lands at $500 to $800, a one-bedroom at $800 to $1,350, a two-bedroom at $1,350 to $2,300, and a four-bedroom at $3,700 to $5,900. Should your sale and your purchase fall out of step, we hold everything in climate-controlled storage for roughly $140 to $320 each month, sized to the unit.
Wrestling a couch over a Cobble Hill stoop won’t change what you owe
Whatever Vinny writes on the worksheet is what you pay, so a steep parlor staircase, a loft elevator with a clock on it, and a legal spot half a block down all stay our headache, not yours. Your whole load travels under $1M of cargo coverage, claims stay open for a full nine months, and we send a truck out at daybreak to grab curb space before the street fills.
Leaving the five boroughs for another state? Admiral runs those long hauls with equipment it owns and people it employs, which means whoever walks your sofa down the stoop in Brooklyn also sets it up wherever you land; no destination agent ever takes the load off us. Call Vinny at (888) 711-4778.
