Posted on 08/22/2020 7:28:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Between an economy-wrecking pandemic and a blistering crime wave driven by race riots and a disbanded anti-crime unit, New York City residents are switching to Pace Picante and fleeing the metropolis in droves.
That, of course, is nothing new if you're been following along. But if you need yet another data point, NYC moving companies are so busy they're having to turn down business, according to DNYUZ.
While the moving industry is fractured among numerous small business owners, and official statistics are tough to come by, one thing is clear: From professionals who are downsizing following a job loss, to students moving back in with their parents, to families fleeing the city for the suburbs, New Yorkers are changing their addresses in droves.
According to FlatRate Moving, the number of moves it has done has increased more than 46 percent between March 15 and August 15, compared with the same period last year. The number of those moving outside of New York City is up 50 percent including a nearly 232 percent increase to Dutchess County and 116 percent increase to Ulster County in the Hudson Valley. -DNYUZ
"It felt like move-out day on a college campus," said former NYC resident, Bobby DelGreco, who moved out of his apartment of nine years in Stuyvesant Town, located in East Manhattan. DelGreco is now living in a long-term Airbnb in Los Angeles, so we assume he'll be moving again shortly.
"All the doors were propped open, and there were moving trucks and furniture everywhere," he added.
Matt Jahn, owner of Brooklyn-based Metropolis Moving, told DNYUZ that he's been flooded with so many customers that he's had to reject new business. "We are turning people away because we just dont have the capacity," he said, adding "Normally, in a given summer, we spend a bunch on advertising. But we cut it this year because we couldnt afford it. And we have still had amazing demand."
Moving trucks everywhere in our #Manhattan neighborhoods. Lets work together to bring our borough back. Stay tuned. #NYC #2021 pic.twitter.com/kREnR1eFap Elizabeth Caputo (@elizabethcaputo) June 26, 2020
That said, things were looking dicey in March, as the COVID-19 lockdown meant a sharp dropoff in business for moving companies. "Right in the beginning, we werent sure if we were allowed to work, and a lot of businesses were in limbo," according to Daniel Norber, owner of West Village-based Imperial Movers. "Everyone was wondering if they should close shop."
Then, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that moving companies were considered an essential service, and the phones began to blow up.
"Within 30 minutes of the announcement I got a flood of calls," said Jahn of Metropolis Moving, who added that things haven't slowed down since.
The first day we could move, we left, said Jaime Welsh-Rajchel. In mid-March, Dr. Welsh-Rajchel, a dentist, and her young son, Henry, took refuge from the city with family in Pennsylvania, while her husband, Todd Rajchel, a dental anesthesiologist at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick, stayed behind to spend the height of the pandemic intubating Covid patients.
Dr. Rajchel has since accepted a position at the School of Dentistry at Creighton University in Omaha, and his wife, Dr. Welsh-Rajchel, returned to Brooklyn just long enough to help move their items. Todd was saying we need a five-year period to decompress from this experience before we can come back to New York for a visit, she said. -DNYUZ
Compounding issues for moving companies is a industrywide labor shortage while movers get sick.
"Everyone wanted to flee New York because it was the epicenter, but at the same time, our movers started getting sick," said Norber of Imperial Movers, who added that the company lost a dozen workers who were either too ill or too afraid to show up. He has been using company vans to pick up movers instead of letting them take public transportation. Norber says he's operating at around 40% capacity.
"We didnt know what the summer would bring, so we didnt ramp up hiring as quickly," said FlatRate Moving CEO David L. Giampietro, who added that after it became obvious demnad was spiking, "all the moving companies were competing for workers."
Read the rest of the report here.
God I hope none of them come to Staten Island.
The south shore is nice and peaceful and they ruin everything they touch
Good thing is the vast majority of them think they are too good to live among us “rednecks” as they call us
rats fleeing the sh!thole they created only to infect other areas with their wokeness.
Will the Movers been the Last ones to move ? LOL
The city, county, and state of New York needs regime change. Immediately.
I saw this movie. John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. starring Kurt Russell, as “Snake Plissken.”
The one person they talked to moved because of the virus.
I wonder if that is the prevalent reason for all the moving.
I was looker for moving co stocks, but they are almost all LLCs or private corps.
Trucking as an alternative is averaging a 30-35 P/E with the lowest at 20 - compared to their EPS they’re just too high.
Please, someone, explain why the Mayor’s wife has a staff of 14 and a budget of $2 million per year???
If New York is irreparably damaged, like it seems it might be, it is not the fault of the virus, which was survivable, but the fault of the dumba$$ Mayor.
And thus, ultimately the NYC voters. The mayor wasn’t forced on them; they chose him.
Seriously, how much did Wilhelm and Andrew think the residents would take before saying.:
ENOUGH!!
Pretty soon they will be able to do a remake of I Am Legend without having to do any staging.
While Cuomo watches.
Look into LTL companies that do moving as an aside, they use logistics trailers and put the unit on-site for you to load yourself, depending on the company it can be a relatively safe bet.
If you bring your liberal crap to Alabama, we will fk you up!
Too bad the census numbers are already in for the next ten years.
Christ, I just hope the morons are not going to bring their Democrat politics to wherever they go.
I met a Jersey girl at Walt Disneyworld back in February, she and her grandchildren were there from NYC, me I was of course from Alaska.
Her husband of many years had recently passed away, we talked forever about all sorts of stuff, she definitely had the accent plus being irish, she swore up and down she was going to visit Alaska thus summer...
I was hoping she would!
I wish all the best for her if she ever managed to escape from New York.
What was Fredo's bro thinking...
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