Most NYC moves are not just a truck and a team. Something needs to be packed properly, something needs to go to the curb legally, and something needs to be put back together on the other side. Big Apple Moving has handled those jobs alongside the move itself since 1979 — same crew, same paperwork, one bill.
Additional moving services are the jobs that happen before the truck rolls and after it parks: professional packing, unpacking, junk removal and furniture reassembly. In NYC each of these is a separate industry with its own price — a lone junk pickup typically runs $75–$150 on the open market, and a stand-alone furniture assembler averages about $47 an hour. Booking the same work through the crew already in your apartment collapses those separate appointments, and their separate certificates of insurance, into one.
What Add-On Services Typically Cost in NYC (2026 Market Estimates)
These are 2026 market estimates for what each service costs in New York when hired on its own — not our quote. Your written estimate prices the whole job together after we know the inventory and the buildings.
| Service | What It Covers | Market Estimate (NYC) | Typical Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional packing | Cartons, paper, wrap and labor for a full pack, studio to four-bedroom | $300 – $3,000 by home size | Half a day to a full day |
| Junk removal | Single items to part-truck loads hauled and disposed of legally | $75 – $150 single item; $175 – $1,000 by load size | Same visit as the move |
| Furniture assembly | Beds, tables, wardrobes and flat-pack rebuilt at the new address | $47/hr average stand-alone; $85 – $500 per piece | 1–2 hours for most jobs |
| Full-service (white-glove) tier | Packing, crating, placement, assembly and debris removal as one managed job | $2,000 – $10,000+ for a local move | 1–2 days |
Packing bands match our packing page’s 2026 market table; the per-size detail lives there.
Why Book Add-Ons With the Same Crew
One COI, Not Three
Your building gets one certificate of insurance covering the move and every add-on, issued the same business day.
Since 1979
The same company has been packing, hauling and reassembling New York apartments through five decades of building rules.
5.0 Stars on Google
Read what New Yorkers say about crews that do the whole job — 2,300+ reviews on Google.
No Minimum Hours
A two-carton pack-up or a single armoire rebuild is a real booking, not a rounding error.
220,000+ Moves
Add-on work is planned from real move data: what breaks, what jams in stairwells, what buildings reject.
24/7 Scheduling
Add-on services run on the same clock as our moves: every day of the year, with support from 7AM to 9PM.
Every Add-On Service, and the Page That Explains It
Packing Services
Full packs to fragile-only. The page carries the complete 2026 market table by home size.
Small Moves & Single Items
When the add-on IS the job: a few pieces, a stand-alone assembly visit, no minimum hours.
Booked With a Move vs Booked Alone
Hired separately, each of these jobs bills its own way: junk haulers price by truck volume, assemblers by the hour or the piece, packers by the room. Each also arrives on its own schedule — and in a doorman building, each needs its own certificate of insurance before anyone touches the freight elevator.
Booked with the move, the sequence collapses. Packing finishes the day before or the morning of; discards leave with the same truck; reassembly happens while the boxes are still coming in. One estimate covers it, and one COI clears every crew member with your management company. That is the practical difference between four vendors and one.
How Add-On Services Fit Into Your Move
Tell us what needs packing, hauling or rebuilding when you describe the move. The written estimate prices everything together.
We send your building a certificate of insurance covering the move and every add-on, the same business day.
Packing first, junk out before loading, assembly at the new address while cartons land.
You check every rebuilt piece and emptied room before the crew leaves.
What the Crew Actually Does
Assembly work on a move is mostly reversal: the beds, wardrobes and tables our crew took apart at the old address go back together at the new one, from photographs taken during disassembly. Flat-pack that survived one build rarely survives two unbraced — the crew will tell you honestly what should travel assembled and what should not.
Junk removal on move day is a logistics call, not just labor. New York buildings set rules for what can sit at the curb and when, and sanitation rules differ for furniture, e-waste and appliances. Discards are separated from the load list before the truck is packed, so nothing you meant to keep leaves with what you meant to lose.
Additional Moving Services — Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — both as part of a move and as a stand-alone visit when you just need things rebuilt. Reassembly of what the crew disassembled — bed frames, wardrobes, dining tables, shelving — is part of the move itself, and a stand-alone assembly booking works like any small job with us: no minimum hours. Hiring a separate assembler in NYC averages about $47 an hour, with complex pieces running $85–$500 each at market.
Yes, when you book unpacking as an add-on. The crew empties cartons onto counters, into closets and onto shelves you point to, breaks down the boxes and removes the debris the same day. It is the fastest way to make a new apartment livable on night one — the details live on our unpacking page.
Yes. Discards are separated from the load list and leave before the truck is packed, disposed of under New York’s rules for furniture, e-waste and appliances. Hired on its own, NYC junk removal typically runs $75–$150 for a single item and $175–$550 for part-truck loads at market; folded into a move it is one line on the estimate.
Anything the move needs beyond loading, driving and unloading: professional packing, unpacking, junk removal, furniture disassembly and reassembly, piano and pool-table handling, and short-term storage between addresses. Each has its own page on this site — this page is the map.
White-glove is the industry’s name for the everything-done tier: full packing with premium materials, custom crating, climate-controlled transport, placement, reassembly and debris removal, handled as one managed job. At market it runs $2,000–$10,000+ for a local move, against $855–$2,309 for a standard one. We perform the same components à la carte, so you pay for the services your move actually needs. The full tier is itemized on our white glove movers page.
As a stand-alone service, the 2026 NYC market runs roughly $300–$550 for a studio up to $1,700–$3,000 for a four-bedroom, materials included. Our packing page carries the full table by home size, what drives the price and how packing is quoted alongside a move.
No — that is the point of booking them together. One certificate of insurance from us covers the move, the packers, the junk haul and the assembly work, and we issue it to your management company the same business day. Four separate vendors would mean four separate certificates.
Yes. Packing, unpacking, junk removal or assembly can be added to an existing booking up to move day — earlier is better for scheduling packers. Call or reply to your estimate and the written price is updated before the crew arrives; support answers 7AM to 9PM, every day.
