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Kings County, NY · 13 mi from Newark
Newark-based, all of NJ + NYC covered. Power washing, lawn care, hauling, light repairs in Brooklyn at $50 per hour, per person. Same flat rate, every job.
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Quick answer
Brick Labor is a Newark, New Jersey-based property crew serving Brooklyn, NY (13 miles away) at a flat $50 per hour, per person. Services include power washing, lawn care, hauling, junk removal, and light repairs — same rate citywide, no zone surcharge or travel fee. Book online or call (855) 82LABOR.
Local context
Bed-Stuy parlor floors, Park Slope brownstones, Greenpoint waterfront — Brick Labor handles the kind of stoop-and-cellar work that wears out a single-person crew. Power washing the front steps, hauling out the basement, clearing the back garden. Same flat $50/hr per person, same Newark crew.
Newark to Brooklyn runs 35 to 50 minutes off-peak — about 13 miles.
About Brooklyn
Brooklyn is Kings County—2.7 million people spread across neighborhoods from Williamsburg to Coney Island. It's brownstones, converted warehouses, walk-ups, and everything in between. Working families, young professionals, long-term residents, and new arrivals all live here.
Brick Labor handles brownstone power-washing in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, post-renovation hauling in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, mid-rise building cleanups in Downtown Brooklyn, and yard work across Prospect Heights and beyond. Storm debris, move-out cleanouts, loading-dock access—we show up and get it done.
Brooklyn in real life
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Neighborhoods we cover in Brooklyn
Brooklyn coverage
Same flat $50/hr rate from Bed-Stuy to Flatbush. We work the whole city — not a zone-based pricing scam.
Landmarks we work near: Prospect Park · Brooklyn Bridge Park · Greenwood Cemetery · Atlantic Avenue · McCarren Park.
Parking + access in Brooklyn
Brooklyn parking is tight and variable by neighborhood. Most street parking runs on meters during business hours and permit-only evening/weekend in residential zones. Alternate-side rules vary by block. For larger jobs, confirm loading-zone access and any building-specific freight-elevator windows with your property manager ahead of time.
Job pattern
Brooklyn jobs match the housing — Park Slope and Bed-Stuy brownstones get stoop washing and basement cleanouts; Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst row brick gets driveway and back-yard work; Williamsburg lofts get furniture hauls. Back gardens behind the brownstones are usually 25 feet deep with brick patios that need an annual deep clean.
Brownstones in Park Slope, Bed-Stuy, and Cobble Hill; limestones in Crown Heights; row brick in Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge; warehouse conversions in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
Seasonal & access notes
Spring stoop rinse season is heaviest in March and April after winter salt. Summer humidity grows mildew on shaded brick. Fall gutter and leaf jobs run heavy in Park Slope and Crown Heights — mature London-plane and ginkgo trees everywhere.
Permit and alternate-side parking everywhere. We stage on commercial blocks (4th Avenue, Atlantic, McGuinness) and walk gear in. Tell us your block at booking and we plan.
The full picture
Brick Labor runs property work across Brooklyn, New York every week. We are the Brooklyn brownstone power washing that home owners, landlords, building supers, and property managers in Bed-Stuy, Park Slope, and Williamsburg call when a job needs a calm, multi-cultural crew that shows up on time, communicates in plain language, and treats the work like it matters. Same flat $50 per hour per person — no zone surcharges, no minimum-truckload tricks, no quote runaround.
Most calls we get in Brooklyn are brownstone stoop washing, back-garden cleanups, and basement and cellar hauls, mixed with the seasonal pressure-wash, hauling, and light-repair work every New York home stack needs. Brownstones in Park Slope, Bed-Stuy, and Cobble Hill; limestones in Crown Heights; row brick in Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge; warehouse conversions in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. That mix sets the rhythm of a typical Brooklyn day for our crew — one stop for a curb-side haul, one for a back-yard cleanup, one for a stoop and side-wall power-wash. Because the work is hourly and we bill in 15-minute increments, you only pay for the time we are actually on your property — not a flat-rate-per-job estimate built on the assumption everything takes longer than it does.
Spring stoop rinse season is heaviest in March and April after winter salt. Summer humidity grows mildew on shaded brick. Fall gutter and leaf jobs run heavy in Park Slope and Crown Heights — mature London-plane and ginkgo trees everywhere. Beyond weather, parking and access shape every Brooklyn job: Permit and alternate-side parking everywhere. We stage on commercial blocks (4th Avenue, Atlantic, McGuinness) and walk gear in. Tell us your block at booking and we plan. Newark to Brooklyn: 35–50 minutes off-peak — depending on borough crossing. We have run jobs on every block within sight of Prospect Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Greenwood Cemetery — and we know which streets to avoid mid-rush-hour, which alleys are wide enough for the truck, and which buildings require freight-elevator booking ahead of time.
The flat $50-per-hour-per-person rate is the part most Brooklyn customers say they remember. Quote-based contractors in New York routinely pad a one-hour job to four hours of "estimated effort" because they have to. We do not. You watch the clock with us — start time logged, stop time logged, total billed by the 15-minute slice. When a job in Brooklyn turns out to be smaller than you expected, you pay less. When it turns out to be bigger because of a hidden basement wall or a second yard, we explain that on-site before the meter keeps running, and you decide.
If you are looking for a Brooklyn junk removal crew that brings the gear, the truck, the dollies, the mildewcide, and the patience to walk every job through with you at the end — that is us. Book a Brooklyn crew online for any day this week, or text the owner directly. For deeper-dive guides specific to your block — Park Slope stoop washing, driveway brightening, fall leaf hauls, post-move-out clearouts — every Brooklyn service page is hand-tuned for the homes and rhythms here, not a generic state-wide template.
Why us in Brooklyn
We chose to run Brick Labor as a flat-hourly, multi-cultural, multi-functional team because the property work people actually need is rarely one thing. A driveway wash turns into a fence-board reset. A basement cleanout turns into a piano-haul. A lawn cut turns into a gutter clear. We staff for that variety — bilingual capability, calm under surprise, no panicked re-quoting when the job changes shape on us.
Brooklyn prepay packages
The hourly meter is great for one-off odd jobs. For the three patterns we book most in Brooklyn, bundle pricing saves you the call-back loop AND beats the meter on price.
2 crew × 3 hrs
Driveway + walkway + front-stoop wash in one visit.
Save $51 vs the meter
Best for: Homes with a single driveway + visible street frontage.
Book this Spring →3 crew × 3 hrs + truck
Furniture, debris, and one truck-load haul in 3 hours flat.
Save $101 vs the meter
Best for: Landlords flipping a unit, families finishing a move.
Book this Move-Out →3 crew × 4 hrs + truck
After-storm yard, debris, downed-branch haul — 4-hour blitz.
Save $151 vs the meter
Best for: Post-Nor'easter, post-summer-thunderstorm, post-blizzard cleanup.
Book this Storm →Pick a service
Same flat $50/hr per person. Tap a service for a deep-dive guide written for Brooklyn addresses.
Power wash
Power washing — $50/hr per person · Newark crew
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Lawn
Lawn + yard cleanup — $50/hr per person
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Hauling
Hauling + cleanouts — $50/hr per person
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Repairs
Light repairs — $50/hr per person
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Moving
Moving labor — $50/hr per person · Newark crew
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Furniture
Furniture removal — $50/hr per person
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Cleanout
Apartment cleanout — $50/hr per person
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Paint prep
Paint prep — $50/hr per person · pre-paint scrape + sand
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Loading
Loading + unloading — $50/hr per person
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Field notes
Inside Ops · 7 min
Most day-labor crews hand out cash and skip the paperwork. We pay through Square Payroll instead — direct deposit on Fridays, 1099-NEC at year-end, same-day instant cash-out to Cash App, Venmo, or Zelle for anyone who needs it before the week closes.
How-to · 6 min
A property emergency at 2 a.m. is the moment most crews stop answering the phone. Here is what Brick Labor handles on-call, what we don't, and why the rate stays $50/hr per person.
Guides · 8 min
Eight red flags, the questions to ask, the clauses to demand. The buyer-protection guide for hiring a property crew in Newark, Jersey City, and the rest of NJ + NYC.
Brooklyn first-timer perk
One email per month, max. Brooklyn pricing tips, seasonal reminders, and a single $25-off code that lands in your inbox right now.
No spam. Unsubscribe in one click. Code applies to your first Brooklyn booking only — minimum 2-hour job.
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Outside the lines? Email hey@bricklabor.com — we travel.