If you need hi-vis vests for a construction crew in Staten Island or anywhere in the boroughs, come to Quazi Supply at 519 Port Richmond Avenue. We stock Class 2 and Class 3 ANSI/ISEA 107 vests in the full size run, in surveyor style with pockets and economy mesh, and we run a heat-press and screen-print operation in the back of the shop. You can walk in at 11 AM with a logo file and walk out at 5 PM with twenty vests printed for the crew. Volume pricing kicks in at five vests, and we deliver to jobsites across the five boroughs.
Here's what most foremen don't get told until OSHA shows up: not all hi-vis is the same. ANSI/ISEA 107 splits high-visibility apparel into classes, and the class is dictated by the work environment, not by what looks bright on the shelf.
Class 2 is the standard surveyor or roadside vest. Minimum 775 square inches of background fabric, two-inch reflective tape. This is what flaggers, parking-lot crews, and most general construction guys wear. If your worksite has traffic moving under 50 mph and you're not in low light, Class 2 is the legal floor.
Class 3 is for highway work, high-speed traffic, low-light conditions, and roadside work after dusk. Minimum 1,240 square inches of background fabric and the reflective tape has to wrap the sleeves and torso so the silhouette of a human is visible from any angle. If you're doing nighttime road repair, utility work near active traffic, or a DOT-controlled project, Class 3 isn't optional. We stock both.
On material: economy mesh vests at the cheap end run about $8 to $12 each at our volume pricing. They're disposable — one season, maybe two, and they get tossed. Surveyor-style vests with pockets, zip front, and reinforced shoulders run $25 to $45 and last a year of hard wear. Insulated Class 3 hi-vis jackets — we carry Norti — run $80 to $140 and are a real winter coat with hi-vis built in. For a crew working through a New York winter, the insulated option pays back in three months versus buying a vest plus a separate jacket.
On colors: lime-yellow is more visible in daylight against urban backgrounds. Orange is more visible against green foliage and cuts through fog better. Pink is technically Class 2 compliant on certain models and gets used by some private crews to differentiate their guys on a multi-contractor site. We stock all three.
Now, the printing. This is where Quazi is different from ordering off Amazon or Grainger. We do heat-transfer vinyl and screen-printing in-house, on a same-day or next-day turnaround if you bring us artwork by noon. Crew names on the back, company logo on the chest, project number on the sleeve — whatever the foreman wants. The minimum is one vest. The volume pricing kicks in at five.
What this means in practice: a contractor calls Monday morning, says he's got a new crew of eight starting Wednesday and they all need Class 2 surveyor vests with the company logo. We pull eight vests off the rack in the right sizes, print them Tuesday, deliver them Wednesday morning to the jobsite. Done. No twelve-business-day shipping window. No "sorry, our printer is in Ohio."
Sizing matters more than people think. A vest worn over a winter Carhartt jacket is two sizes bigger than a vest worn over a t-shirt in July. Order for the heaviest layer the guys will wear that season. Class 3 vests in particular need to fit over insulation without bunching the reflective tape — bunched tape doesn't read from a distance.
On fleet and crew accounts: if you're outfitting a crew of fifteen plus and reordering through the year — replacements, new hires, seasonal layers — we set up a net-30 fleet account. You order by phone or text, we deliver, you pay monthly. Volume tiers stack. The application is on our fleet and crew accounts page and approval is usually 24 to 48 hours.
On delivery: we run jobsite drops across Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. Morning delivery before 7 AM is doable if you call the day before. Most foremen schedule it weekly — Monday morning drop with the new vests, replacement gloves, and whatever else got beat up the previous week.
If you want to walk in and feel the materials before you commit, we're at 519 Port Richmond Avenue, open 11 to 8, every day. The vest rack is to the left when you come in. Bring a sample of your logo if you can, or email it ahead — we can print on the spot most days. For a single guy who needs one vest for his Saturday side job, we'll set you up in five minutes. For a crew of fifty, we'll get you a quote and a delivery schedule the same day.