Anthony Ruggiero spent six years running crews for a citywide moving outfit before he started Brooklyn Best Movers in 2014, and the thing that stuck with him wasn’t the boxes — it was the standoff outside the building. A certificate-of-insurance request that nobody had made until move-day morning. A freight elevator that needed a reservation the building management office never got a call about. A doorman shaking his head at a truck that had nowhere legal to sit. Over and over, the move itself wasn’t the hard part; the paperwork the building wanted was, and it was always getting discovered at the curb instead of handled at booking.
So that’s what changed when he opened his own company. The COI request, the elevator reservation, the parking plan — all of it gets sorted out when you book, not guessed at when the truck pulls up. That’s the whole idea behind “the paperwork’s done before the truck is,” and it’s still how the office runs every job today.
Anthony doesn’t run this alone. Gina Delvecchio has handled the office and building coordination since 2016 — she’s usually the one on the phone with a management office confirming an elevator window. Marcus Webb has done in-home estimates since 2018, walking the actual unit before anyone quotes a price. Yolanda Pierce has run crews as chief since 2017, and she’s the one who knows which brownstone staircases need a second look before the couch comes down them.
Fourteen people on payroll, seven trucks, no subcontractors and no day-labor crews filled in the morning of a job. Every mover who shows up at your building works for Brooklyn Best Movers, full stop.