Where we are, and what we do.
A demolition contractor based in the north of the borough, working across the Bronx.
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The address
Breakara Demolition639 E 234th Street
Bronx, NY 10466
We are based on East 234th Street, in the north of the borough.
Being based in the Bronx keeps travel short on jobs that run several days, and it means we know the practical side of working here: which streets a container can sit on, what parking is like around a walk-up, and how much of the day gets lost if a truck cannot get near the door.
East 234th Street. Serving the Bronx.
Where we work
Breakara Demolition works across New York City. This site covers the Bronx work, and being based in the borough is why we can get to a site here quickly to look at it, keep a job supplied while it runs, and come back if something needs finishing.
- The Bronx
- Queens
- Manhattan
- Brooklyn
- Staten Island
What we work on
Residential and commercial both, from a single bathroom through to a whole structure. The stock around us is mostly detached, semi-detached and small multi-family, which is why driveways, garages, sheds and rear extensions are as ordinary here as apartment gut outs.
The work
Four services, and most jobs here use more than one of them.
Interior demolition
Gut outs and strip outs, inside buildings that stay standing and usually stay occupied. Houses, apartments, storefronts and commercial spaces going back to shell.
Building demolition
Whole structures and agreed parts of them, plus the garages, sheds, outbuildings and rear extensions that are the common job on this stock.
Concrete removal
Driveways, patios, walkways, steps, garage floors and yard slabs broken out and hauled away, with the ground left graded.
Construction debris removal
Getting the material off the property and to a facility registered to take it, whether our work generated it or it was already there.
The scope you agree is the scope that turns up on the day.
How we work
We settle the scope before the work starts rather than discovering it halfway through, and we plan access and sequence first, because on most jobs those are harder than the demolition itself.
We know what usually goes wrong on a Bronx job:
- The container cannot legally sit where everyone assumed it would
- The stair has to carry everything, because the elevator is out of bounds
- There is a service still live behind a wall nobody flagged
- Something that was supposed to stay was never marked
We clear material as it is produced instead of letting it pile up, and we hand the space back swept and ready for whoever is in next. If a job needs something outside what we do, such as filings or specialist removal, we say so early and tell you what it needs, so it does not surface as a delay later.
Working on property people are still using
Two-family houses, small apartment buildings and storefronts with rooms above are ordinary Bronx stock, and on a lot of jobs somebody is still living or trading a wall away from the work.
That changes the job more than the demolition does. It decides which hours suit, which route the material takes, what gets sheeted and boarded, and what the shared parts look like at six o'clock. A unit being worked in has to be empty and clear. The building around it does not, and it usually is not.
Where a wall is shared with a neighbour, we identify it before anything is touched rather than after. The same goes for a shared path, a fence line or a drain run that crosses a boundary.
What you can hold us to
There is a written scope before work starts. It says what is coming out, in what order, what is staying, and what the site looks like when we leave. It is the same document the price is built on.
If something turns up that changes it, which happens most often behind a wall or under a slab, you hear about it when we find it and before we act on it. A scope that quietly grows during the job is the complaint people have about this trade, and it is avoidable.
What we will not do is give you a number over the phone for something that needs looking at, or tell you a job is simpler than it is to get the work. Both come back.