Finding a crane in New York is the easy part. The hard part is the lift plan, the rigging, the ground under the outriggers, and the crew that signals the pick. We plan and rig crane lifts across the New York metro from start to finish — and bring in the right crane for the load, the radius, and the site.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides crane & rigging services in New York, NY and the surrounding metro. We plan the lift, bring in the crane sized to the load, radius, and site, and rig, signal, and set the pick with our own crew. Our crews work across New York and nearby New York metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
A crane rental gets you a machine and an operator. It does not get you the load weight and center of gravity, the rigging that attaches to the right points, the ground-bearing check under the outriggers, the street or site closure, or the crew that takes the load off the hook and moves it into the building. On New York's construction & infrastructure jobs, those are the parts that decide whether a pick goes to plan.
Badass Logistics owns the lift, not just the hook time. We size the crane to the load and radius, write the lift plan, rig and signal the pick, and set the load — and where the crane can only reach the door or the dock, the same crew takes it the rest of the way with jacks, skates, and gantries. Crane rental vs a rigging company →
Crane work in New York, NY concentrates in the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center and industrial park in the South Bronx, the Bush Terminal / Industry City waterfront industrial complex in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and the Maspeth Industrial Business Zone in western Queens, and each of those sets up differently — lot space for outriggers, overhead lines, rail spurs, and neighbors that can't be shut down. The buildings are a mix of early-20th-century multi-storey loft and warehouse buildings with narrow freight elevators and low dock clearances in Sunset Park and Maspeth, alongside single-storey market and cold-storage buildings at Hunts Point, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
New York, NY runs on construction & infrastructure, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
New York's industrial base — construction & infrastructure — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Keeping the rest of production running while machines move is usually the hardest part of the plan. Typical crane lifts for New York customers include:
The picks that come up most in New York are refrigeration and cold-storage systems, produce and meat-market handling equipment, garment cutting and pattern equipment, and structural steel fabrication equipment — and the crane is sized to the heaviest of them at the longest radius the site forces, not to the weight alone. Who is asking changes the plan as much as what is being lifted: a pick for New York's wholesale food distribution, garment cutting and sample production, film and television production, or metal fabrication and structural steel usually lands inside a running site, so the lift window, the exclusion zone, and the traffic plan are written around their operation.
RTUs, chillers, cooling towers, and mechanical equipment picked onto roofs across the New York metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the New York metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the New York metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the New York metro.
Plenty of New York jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-87, I-90, I-95 and I-81, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
The Port of New York and New Jersey is the largest container port on the US East Coast. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern through the New York New Jersey Rail car-float operation across Upper New York Bay between Jersey City and Brooklyn. Loads arriving that way often need a crane at both ends — off the railcar or dock and onto a trailer, then off the trailer and onto a pad in New York — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in New York, NY is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller New York jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same New York crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of New York? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout New York, NY and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout New York and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Newark, NJ | Essex County | 9 mi |
| Jersey City, NJ | Hudson County | 4 mi |
| Yonkers | Westchester County | 16 mi |
| Elizabeth, NJ | Union County | 11 mi |
| Brooklyn | Kings County | 5 mi |
| Bronx, ID | Bonner County | 2131 mi |
| Edison, NJ | Middlesex County | 25 mi |
| Secaucus, NJ | Hudson County | 6 mi |
| Bayonne, NJ | Hudson County | 7 mi |
| Long Island City | — | — |
| New York City | — | 0 mi |
| Queens | Queens County | 9 mi |
| Manhattan | New York County | 5 mi |
| The Bronx | Bronx County | 12 mi |
| Staten Island | Richmond County | 13 mi |
| Paterson, NJ | Passaic County | 17 mi |
| Stamford, CT | Western Connecticut Planning Region County | 34 mi |
| North Stamford, CT | Western Connecticut Planning Region County | 38 mi |
| Norwalk, CT | Western Connecticut Planning Region County | 42 mi |
| Greenburgh | Westchester County | 24 mi |
| Clifton, NJ | Passaic County | 13 mi |
| East Norwalk, CT | Western Connecticut Planning Region County | 42 mi |
| New Rochelle | Westchester County | 18 mi |
| Brick, NJ | Ocean County | 46 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our New York services or get a quote.
Most New York jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same New York crew.
New York industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across New York as one accountable job.
New York machinery movers →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in New York.
New York CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for New York plants.
factory relocation in New York →In New York we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in New York.
The same New York crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, and machinery loading and unloading.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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