Back to School, Handled
The city's biggest moving week isn't in May — it's the week before school starts.
The whole September scramble, handled by one call instead of five: supply runs done, dorm and apartment move-ins muscled, uniforms and blazers tailored in time, laptops and printers actually working before the first assignment.
Official event info: schools.nyc.gov — official DOE calendar ↗
- Turnaround
- Book the week you get the lists. The last two weekends of August go first — every year.
- How pricing works
- Priced per run, per move, or as one back-to-school package covering the whole week. Every number is shown before anything is booked.
- Where
- Manhattan · Brooklyn · Queens · The Bronx · Staten Island
What's included
- Supply-list runs — the whole list, checked off, delivered before day one
- Dorm and student-apartment move-in muscle, stairs included
- Uniform and blazer tailoring in time for the first day
- Laptop, printer, and wifi setup that actually works before the first assignment
- Line stand-ins for permits, placements, and pickup windows
- A calm week-one backup: forgotten lunch, missed bus, last-minute run
What's not
- Tutoring and academics — we handle logistics, not homework
- School enrollment decisions or paperwork advice
- Anything a school requires a parent to do in person — we'll get you there instead
- Childcare — we move boxes and check lists, not kids
If you need something on this list, send it through the box below — some of it we can arrange, it's just not part of the standard job.
How it works
- Send the lists, the dates, and the addresses
- We build one plan — runs, muscle, tailoring, tech — and confirm the slots
- The first day of school arrives with everything already done
Who it's for
- Parents staring down three supply lists and one free weekend
- College families moving a dorm's worth of stuff up five flights
- Anyone whose September calendar collapsed the day the school emails started
Questions people actually ask
Can you really do the whole supply list?
Yes — send the list exactly as the school sent it. We do the stores, the substitutions get flagged back to you, and it lands at your door checked off.
Do you do college move-ins outside Manhattan?
All five boroughs, yes. For campuses beyond the city, ask — if it's a day trip from NYC we'll tell you honestly whether it works.
What if the school changes something last minute?
That's most of what September is. Tell us the change; the plan gets reworked the same day.
Your situation not covered above?
If what you need is close to this but not quite it — a weird building, an odd hour, a job that spans two of these — describe it here. It goes straight to the founder, and unusual requests are how new services get added.
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