◆ Kwasi Evu · founder · since 2017

Quazi Supply.

519 Port Richmond Avenue, Staten Island. Built by Kwasi Evu in 2017. Eight years and counting.

Before 2017
Gloves on a jobsite.

Kwasi Evu was working construction, and the guys on his crew kept asking where to get good gloves cheap. So he started bringing extras and selling them off the tailgate before the morning shift. Word traveled.
The route
The truck.

Demand outgrew the tailgate. Kwasi built a proper supply route out of a truck — hi-vis, hard hats, work pants, the boots people couldn't find at Lowe's without paying twice.
The turn
Then the truck got cleaned out.

One day everything was stolen out of it — inventory, tools, all of it. Most people would have read that as a sign to fold. Kwasi read it as a sign to stop being mobile.
2017
519 Port Richmond.

A real shop with real shelves and real hours. Plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, roofers, and the small contractors found it within weeks.
Today
Eight years in.

About 1,000 items on the shelves, the brands the trades trust. Fleet pricing, jobsite delivery, printing in the back. Same answer as off the tailgate: yes, we have what your guys actually need.