We work in four of the five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. The City’s sidewalk rules are the same everywhere, but what a job actually involves is not. Pick your borough to see what tends to come up there.
Manhattan
Manhattan sidewalk work is rarely just concrete. Frontages are busy, truck access is tight, and a lot of older commercial building...
Upper East Side · Upper West Side · Harlem and more
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Brooklyn
Most Brooklyn sidewalk jobs come down to two things: mature street trees lifting flags, and brownstone frontages where stoops, cel...
Park Slope · Brooklyn Heights · Bedford-Stuyvesant and more
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Queens
Queens has more one-, two- and three-family homes than any other borough, which changes the maths. More owners here qualify for th...
Astoria · Long Island City · Flushing and more
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The Bronx
The Bronx runs from dense multi-family blocks to streets of single-family houses, so the right answer changes by neighbourhood. Sl...
Riverdale · Kingsbridge · Fordham and more
See The Bronx detailsWhy the borough still matters
NYC sets sidewalk rules city-wide, so the deadline, the permit and the licence requirement are identical whether you are in Riverdale or the Financial District. What changes is the work itself.
Manhattan frontages are priced by access as much as by area. Brooklyn jobs usually start with a street tree. Queens has the longest residential runs and the most driveway aprons. The Bronx swings between dense multi-family blocks and single-family streets, and the slope of the block often decides how the job is built. That is why each borough has its own page rather than one page with the borough name swapped out.
The city-wide rules, with links to every City page they come from, are in our violation guide. Last checked .
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Send us the address. If it is in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx, we do.