Subject: RE: I'm moving to NYC! swishyskirt - 2009-05-04 9:28 PM. My other idea is to rent a truck, pack everything myself and then hire two guys to carry everything upstairs. Has anyone ever done that? I moved an ex-gf into a third (or fourth - I can't remember ) floor walk up on the upper west side using a similar technique only the two guys were me and her brother and our price was "free". It certainly worked but I don't know that I would recommend it. Just parking the truck to unload it was a PITA and then we needed to have someone down there to keep an eye on it. Better not to leave a truck containing all of your posessions wide open on a street with heavy foot traffic. And since we crashed at his place in the city, we had to park the truck over night and wound up with a ticket because the spot we found apparently wasn't intended for trucks. Nonethless, the actual moving of items up the stairs is the real headache (and if it is raining, danger - those nice stone stairways are like ice when wet ) so any strategy that allows you avoid that is heading in the right direction. |