When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, New York calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the New York metro — from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, rigged, moved, and set by one accountable crew.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides industrial rigging in New York, NY and the surrounding metro. We handle engineered lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, set and leveled to spec. 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.
New York's construction & infrastructure base runs on machines that can't be muscled onto a truck — presses, machining centers, transformers, and production lines that have to come off the floor, through the door, and onto a trailer without a scratch. That's rigging: engineered lifts, air skates and gantries, and a crew that measures every doorway before anything moves.
Badass Logistics rigs it like an engineering problem and runs it like a road crew across New York. We plan the pick, protect the floors, and set the load to spec — and when the load has to leave the building, the same team runs the move and the project freight, so it gets rigged out, delivered, and reset without a hand-off.
Rigging in New York, NY is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are 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. They 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 — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's wholesale food distribution, garment cutting and sample production, film and television production, and metal fabrication and structural steel.
New York, NY runs on construction & infrastructure, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging 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 rigging jobs for New York customers include:
A New York lift list usually runs to refrigeration and cold-storage systems, produce and meat-market handling equipment, garment cutting and pattern equipment, and structural steel fabrication equipment, and each one changes the rig: where it can be picked, what it cannot be set down on, and how much of it has to come apart to clear a doorway.
Setting and leveling machinery onto pads and foundations to spec across the New York metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the New York metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the New York metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors 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.
Not every New York rig finishes on the floor it started on. 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. The Port of New York and New Jersey is the largest container port on the US East Coast. Add I-87, I-90, I-95 and I-81 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a New York plant can leave on a trailer, in a rail car, or over water — the rigging plan is built backwards from whichever it is.
Every industrial 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.
Industrial 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, Industrial Rigging across New York or get a quote.
We run industrial 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.
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 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, 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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