An MRI magnet is one of the heaviest single pieces a New York hospital will ever bring through its doors — and it has to arrive without a scratch, inside a building that never closes. We plan the route, rig the magnet and its components, and set them for the OEM's install team across the New York metro.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides MRI & medical equipment rigging in New York, NY and the surrounding metro. We rig MRI magnets, CT, PET/CT, cath lab, and linac components into and out of hospitals and imaging centers — on planned routes, with tilt and shock monitoring, sequenced around the OEM's install team. 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.
Imaging equipment does not move like freight. A magnet has strict tilt and shock limits, a CT gantry carries delicate rotating components, and the route runs through corridors, elevators, and floors that were built for patients. In New York's hospitals and imaging centers, the move is also planned around infection control and a schedule that keeps clinical areas open.
Badass Logistics plans the route from the truck to the suite — rated elevator, wall or knockout opening, or a crane pick to an upper floor — and checks floor loading at every stage. Magnet ramp-down, cryogens, and calibration stay with the OEM; we rig and set what they hand us, with monitoring recorded throughout. How to move an MRI machine →
New York's imaging work is anchored by its health systems — NewYork-Presbyterian, NYU Langone Health, Mount Sinai Health System, and Memorial Sloan Kettering — and by the outpatient imaging centers that ring them. Each of them replaces scanners on a cycle, and each replacement means a magnet out, a magnet in, and a suite that has to reopen on a date.
New York, NY runs on construction & infrastructure, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same MRI and medical equipment rigging standards across the region:
Hospital imaging departments, outpatient imaging centers, and cancer centers across New York replace equipment on a steady cycle. The equipment we rig for them includes:
The buildings set the route. 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, and an imaging suite in any of them can sit on an upper floor, in a basement, or behind a corridor that was never built for a magnet.
Magnets rigged in, out, and between suites with tilt and shock monitoring across the New York metro.
Gantries, tables, and cabinets moved and set for the install team across the New York metro.
C-arms, ceiling mounts, and components handled as one sequenced job across the New York metro.
Linac components rigged into vaults on planned routes 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.
Research imaging adds a second kind of job. Columbia University, Rockefeller University, and NYU run scanners and instruments outside the clinical schedule, often in older research buildings where the route has to be engineered around floors that were never rated for a magnet.
Every MRI & medical equipment 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.
MRI & Medical Equipment 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 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, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in New York: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator 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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