Our Brooklyn crews put up Manhattan scaffolding and sidewalk sheds and help with the permit filings. Call any hour. We answer.
We are a Brooklyn scaffolding company. We’re a Brooklyn scaffolding company that works in Manhattan: pipe scaffolding, sidewalk sheds, and the temporary fencing and Jersey barriers that go around them.
Plan for three things on a Manhattan job. Winter embargoes suspend permits. Shed permits now last 90 days. And any tenant on the ground floor notices every month the shed stays up.
DOT suspends street and sidewalk construction permits in parts of Manhattan every winter and around big events. The Street Works Manual suspends active permits in an embargoed area and bars new approvals. Apart from emergency work, a waiver from DOT’s Office of Construction Mitigation and Coordination is the only way through.
The holiday embargo usually starts around mid-November and runs to January 2. Last winter’s ran from November 15, 2025 to January 2, 2026. Events add their own. In 2025, permits around the Thanksgiving Day Parade stopped from November 18 through 27. For New Year’s Eve 2024, DOT embargoed Midtown between West 34th and West 59th Streets and between 6th and 8th Avenues from December 24 through January 2.
DOT usually posts the exact dates and streets in mid-October on its construction embargoes page. If a facade repair needs protection before mid-November, start now. Planning a Manhattan job before the embargo? Send us the address and cross streets.
The city has put a price on what a shed costs a storefront. A 2024 city study using Mastercard data found cardholders spent $3,900 to $9,500 less each month at businesses in Manhattan buildings with sidewalk sheds. Restaurants and bars saw weekly transactions fall 3.5% to 9.7% in the six months after a shed went up.
The city’s answer was tighter rules. Sidewalk shed permits used to run a year. They now expire every 90 days. Each renewal costs $130, most add a $90 progress report fee, and a registered design professional files that report. DOB expects to start charging graduated monthly penalties in early 2027 for sheds that stay up past 180 days without active work or timely repairs.
For a building with retail at street level, that changes the planning question from how soon a shed can go up to how soon it can come down. Line up the engineer’s scope, the repair contractor and the filing before DOB issues the permit, because the 90 days start on issuance. Full rules are on our sidewalk shed rental service.
We install and supply everything a Manhattan facade or building job needs, from pedestrian protection to DOB filings.
Covered walkways protect pedestrians while your facade or building work goes on overhead.
Platforms your trades climb to reach the facade and other exterior work.
A hard line around the site that keeps the public out of your work area.
Barriers between your work zone and moving traffic
A signed written report on every shed we inspect.
We file the DOB permits and clear the violation notices
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Our You’ll find us at 8808 Foster Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11236. Someone picks up the phone at any hour. Two hours is our average arrival time across every job in the city, so your address could come in faster or slower.
If a facade or shed in Manhattan looks unsafe, call (718) 256-2828 right away. We work in all five boroughs.
Cross streets matter in Manhattan because DOT sets embargoes and event closures block by block. Send:
It depends on whether the work needs a DOT construction permit and whether your block is on the embargo list. If the work needs a permit on an embargoed street, DOT suspends active permits and approves new ones only by waiver. Applications in the holiday window carry an extra $135 review fee, and approval isn't guaranteed
Emergency work can proceed with an emergency authorization number. Send us the address and cross streets and we'll check them against DOT's list.
Ninety days, and then it expires. Nothing renews on its own anymore, so someone has to file and pay $130 every time. Most renewals also need a $90 progress report from a registered design professional. If a shed stays up past 180 days with no active work or slow repairs, DOB expects to start charging the owner a monthly penalty in early 2027.
Call (718) 256-2828 at any hour and have the address and cross streets ready. Our crews average two hours to a site. That number covers jobs all over the city, so your block could run shorter or longer.
Tell us the address and cross streets, what you need up, and when you want to start. We’ll read it over and come back with anything else we need to price it.
