A chiller in a New York building was usually set before the walls closed around it. Getting the old one out and the new one in means a route through a mechanical room, a basement, or a roof — and often a crane on a city street. We plan and rig HVAC equipment across the New York metro, from the first opening to the last anchor bolt.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in New York, NY and the surrounding metro. We rig chillers, boilers, cooling towers, air handlers, and rooftop units into and out of mechanical rooms, basements, penthouses, and roofs — sectioned where the opening demands it and set ready for the mechanical contractor. 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.
The machine is rarely the hard part of an HVAC replacement. The route is. A centrifugal chiller headed for a basement plant room, a boiler that only fits through a wall, a cooling tower that has to go up past occupied floors — the plan is set by doors, corridors, slab capacity, and crane reach long before it is set by the unit. In New York, much of that work is in buildings that cannot shut down while it happens.
Badass Logistics walks both routes — the old unit's way out and the new unit's way in — and rigs them as one job. Refrigerant recovery, electrical disconnects, and piping stay with your licensed mechanical contractor; we sequence around them. Units are skated, jacked, or sectioned at factory joints where the builder allows it, and roof work runs as a planned crane lift. How to move a boiler or chiller →
Large HVAC plant in New York is concentrated in campuses that run around the clock. The metro's hospitals — NewYork-Presbyterian, NYU Langone Health, and Mount Sinai Health System — replace chillers and boilers without ever closing a wing. Columbia University and Rockefeller University run central plants of their own, often in basements reached by one freight elevator or a single knockout wall.
New York, NY runs on construction & infrastructure, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same chiller and HVAC rigging standards across the region:
Manhattan's office towers, the hospital campuses of the Upper East Side, JFK and LaGuardia airports and university campuses form the densest large-HVAC stock in the country. The equipment we rig for them includes:
On the industrial side, New York's plants 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, and process cooling there means chillers, towers, and air handlers set on mezzanines and roofs. That work 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.
Centrifugal, screw, and absorption chillers rigged out of and into plant rooms across the New York metro.
Fire-tube and water-tube boilers removed and set, sectioned where the opening demands it across the New York metro.
RTUs, cooling towers, and condensers lifted onto and off roofs across the New York metro.
AHUs and fan sections moved through buildings and set on curbs 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.
Data centers are the other big buyer of cooling plant in New York. 60 Hudson Street and 111 Eighth Avenue run chillers, CRAH units, and condensers that are replaced and added on the facility's schedule, not the weather's.
Every chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging 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.
Chiller, Boiler & HVAC Rigging 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, Chiller & HVAC Rigging across New York or get a quote.
We run chiller, boiler & HVAC rigging in metros across New York — pick the nearest crew:
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, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in New York: heavy lift rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, printing press moving, and data center rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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