Mason workwear in Staten Island is the heaviest, dustiest, most abrasive day on a jobsite, and the gear has to keep up. Quazi Supply at 519 Port Richmond Avenue stocks for that day specifically. Heavy canvas pants that survive mortar, long-sleeve work shirts that survive brick burrs, gloves that handle stone and impact, boots that survive water and slurry, and knee pads that you actually wear. Open eleven to eight, seven days a week.
Pants first. Mortar is the cruelest fabric test on any jobsite. It abrades dry, it sets up wet, and it eats lighter cotton in three weeks. The answer is heavy canvas duck — Carhartt Double Front B01 in the 12-ounce, Carhartt Firm Duck in the 13-ounce, Dickies double-knee in the heavy spec. Reinforced knee with a slide-in pocket for a knee pad is standard. Gusseted crotch for the squat pattern. Thirty-two through forty-eight waist in stock.
Tops. Long sleeves. Brick has burrs, block has sharp edges, fresh-cut stone has a bite. A short-sleeve summer t-shirt is going to leave you with a forearm full of scratches at the end of a wall. Carhartt heavyweight long-sleeve henleys and the long-sleeve Force shirts are the standard. In winter, a flannel and a softshell over that. The mason habit of working in a sweatshirt with the cuffs cut off is fine until somebody snags a thread on a tie wire.
Gloves. Cut-resistant plus impact. The combination glove with a dorsal TPR shield is the right call. Kingston and Eurbak both make A4 cut with TPR knuckle protection. The TPR is for the moment a brick slips off a level and lands across the back of your hand. The cut-resistant lining is for the burr you did not see when you flipped the brick. A separate pair of leather rigging gloves for setting heavy stone, lifting block, and any work where the abrasion is worse than the cut risk.
Boots. Waterproof, slip-resistant, composite or steel toe. Mortar slurry on a slab is slick and it does not look slick — it looks dry until you weight it. SR outsole is the rule. Waterproof because mortar mixing, washing tools at the end of the day, and rain on a job all conspire to soak your feet by lunch if the boot is not sealed. Wolverine Floorhand WP, Timberland Pro Pit Boss WP, Red Wing Worx 5605, the Rockrooster waterproof six-inch. Composite toe for masons doing stone — heavy stone landing on a foot is a steel-toe-or-nothing decision. Steel toe is fine.
Knee pads. Stone work is on the knees more than block work. A hard-shell pad with a gel insert. Strap-on or pocket-insert. We carry Carhartt and Rothco in the strap-on style and we keep the pocket pads next to the Double-Front pants. Get the hard shell — soft foam compresses on a slate or concrete subfloor and you will feel it tomorrow.
PPE. ANSI Z87.1 safety glasses with foam gaskets for grit when you are cutting block with a saw. A half-face respirator for any cutting work — silicosis is a real and slow career-killer for masons, and the dust mask from a hardware-store rack is not enough. P100 cartridges with a half-face mask for cutting, mixing, demoing. We carry 3M and Honeywell. Hearing protection for saw work. Hard hat on commercial sites.
Trade-specific small things. A mason's line and pins. A trowel sleeve on a tool belt. A jointer in a pouch on the belt. A bucket grid for tools. A water bottle that fits in a side pocket of the truck — hydration matters more for masons than for almost any other trade because you are working hard and you are next to a heat-radiating wall in the sun.
Apron. The leather mason's apron is not just nostalgia. It saves the front of your pants from twenty years of mortar and brick contact. A shop apron that takes a knee pad pocket. Heavy canvas. We stock plain and we will print or embroider a shop name on the building.
Custom printing — masons' shops want shop name on the back of jackets, embroidered on chest, on hoodies for the apprentices. We run it on the building. Apply for a fleet account at /services/fleet-and-crew-accounts/apply if you want net-30 and volume pricing on five units or more.
Jobsite delivery across the five boroughs. Same-day across Staten Island. If you blow out a pair of pants on a Tuesday and the truck is not coming back to base until Friday, we will have a replacement on the jobsite that afternoon.
519 Port Richmond Ave. Eleven to eight, seven days. Open Sundays, which matters because masons work Saturdays and need to restock for Monday more often than people think.