Excavation Service Area — Brooklyn & NYC

Empire Excavation NYC works across all five boroughs and into Long Island and nearby New Jersey. Tight urban lots are our home turf: rear-yard access in Brooklyn rowhouses, cellar dig-outs under occupied buildings in Manhattan, and foundation work on the Bronx's older single-family stock all come with the same constraints — no room to stage, neighbors inches away, and inspectors who check.

In Brooklyn and Queens we run the most residential digs — basement lowering, foundation excavation for extensions, and trenching for utilities. Manhattan work skews commercial and deep, Staten Island and Long Island skew toward grading, land leveling, and new-construction footprints. One crew standard everywhere: shored, sheeted, and cleaned up at the end of every day.

Neighborhoods & Boroughs We Serve

• Bronx
• Brooklyn
• Flushing
• Greenpoint
• Long Island City
• Long Island
• Manhattan
• Queens
• Red Hook
• Riverdale
• Staten Island

Logistics differ sharply by area: Red Hook and Greenpoint jobs plan around truck routes and industrial traffic, Long Island City and Flushing around active construction corridors, and Riverdale around hills and tight residential streets. Every area page notes the access pattern for that neighborhood — where spoil trucks can stage, how neighbors are notified, and which inspections typically gate the schedule — so the plan you get at the site visit already accounts for your street, not just your lot.

Each area page covers the local building stock, access notes, and pricing factors for that neighborhood. Don't see your town listed? If you are within the NYC metro or western Long Island, call (347) 620-1227 — if we cannot help, we will say so plainly and point you to someone who can.

Ready to start? Browse our excavation services or check the FAQ page for pricing and process answers.

Booking a Crew in Your Area

Site visits are routed by borough so an estimator who knows your neighborhood's soil, rock, and inspection patterns is the one who walks your lot. Assessments are usually available within a few business days; project start dates depend on permit timelines more than on our calendar, and your quote states both honestly. If your job sits near a borough border or just outside the listed areas, call anyway — the map above is where we work most, not a hard wall.