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Honest writing from the sales floor. Boot care, brand comparisons, what crews actually need vs. what they're sold.
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November 14, 2024
Mariners Harbor: five minutes west on Richmond Terrace.
The 202-acre Howland Hook Marine Terminal is the largest single employer on Staten Island. We stock for the longshoremen, the truckers, and the brownfield crews.
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November 10, 2024
Huguenot is finish-trade country.
Higher-end single-family work — additions, custom millwork, hardscape, pools, landscape. We stock the gear that doesn't embarrass you in a homeowner's driveway.
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November 7, 2024
Great Kills: the marina and the Hylan strip.
Moonbeam Marina at 3270 Hylan Blvd, Great Kills Park as the federal Gateway National Recreation Area peninsula, and a mile of commercial strip. Different trades, one delivery.
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November 3, 2024
Grant City: built around the station.
An early 20th-century transit-oriented suburb. Brick colonials, Capes, modest apartment complexes. Hylan Boulevard murals. We stock for the trades that keep it going.
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October 30, 2024
Gearing up for West Brighton.
$332.3M of NYCHA renovation work runs through fall 2026 a few blocks east of our front door. Here's what we stock for the crews on it.
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October 26, 2024
Eltingville sits at three commercial corridors.
Richmond Avenue, Amboy Road, and Hylan Boulevard converge here. Each corridor pulls a different trade. We stock for the convergence.
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October 22, 2024
Dongan Hills: the suburban rotation.
Capes, ranches, above-ground pools, and the seawall tying into New Creek Bluebelt by 2028. Steady work, predictable list.
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October 19, 2024
Concord and the Targee Street volume.
One of the most heavily traveled roads on Staten Island. Single-family, multifamily, brick rowhouses, small commercial. We stock for all four.
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October 15, 2024
Charleston: big-box, big lots, big trucks.
Bricktown Centre's 550,000 sf retail center, DH Property Holdings' 45-acre industrial site at 1900 South Avenue, the MTA Charleston Bus Depot. We stock for all of it.
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October 11, 2024
Castleton Corners and the Victory & Manor node.
The walk-up apartment work, the post-office corner, the Clove Lakes residential rim. Quiet neighborhood, steady work.
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October 7, 2024
Bulls Head and the warehouses behind Victory & Richmond.
Amazon fulfillment-center adjacency, the Industrial Park, and the steady commercial buildout at Victory and Richmond. The trades that keep it running know us.
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October 3, 2024
Bay Terrace is quiet. The work isn't.
Postwar Capes and ranches getting the slow drip of remodel, addition, deck, and roof work. We stock the boots and the gear that holds up over a season of it.
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September 30, 2024
Annadale, the quiet build.
Townhouse rows, postwar bungalows, mini-mansions on the wooded parcels. New mixed-use creeping into Amboy and Annadale Road. We stock for it.