Storefronts, curtain wall, entrances and rated openings
Commercial work runs on different constraints from residential: tenant access, occupied hours, phased programmes, code-rated openings and coordination with other trades.
We work across commercial and mixed-use buildings on both new installation and replacement, from a single retail frontage to a whole-building glazing programme.
This service page is in place and will be expanded with full detail — scope, process, typical projects and pricing guidance.
In the meantime, if this is what you need, call 929-235-1233 or send us the details and we will answer directly.
Storefront Doors Curtain Wall Systems Commercial Doors Fire-Rated Glass Energy Performance All Services
Yes. Work is sequenced around trading hours and tenant access, and large programmes are phased by elevation, floor or tenancy.
Yes, including boarding and reglazing for breakage on storefronts and commercial frontage.
Yes. Fire-rated openings use assemblies that are tested and labelled as a unit — glass and framing together. We work from the architect's fire rating schedule and confirm the listing before ordering.
Storefront framing, curtain wall, commercial entrances and hardware, fire-rated assemblies and interior glazed partitions, on both new installation and replacement.
Managing a building is a different problem from owning a house. The decision is not just what to buy — it is how to get it approved, how to phase it, how to keep residents informed, and how to document that it was done. We work that way because most of our commercial clients need us to.
Broken glass in an occupied building is a security and liability problem from the moment it happens. The first job is to make the opening safe and secure — board-up, glass removal, the area made safe — and then replace properly once the correct unit is available.
That two-stage reality is worth stating plainly. Most glass in a commercial building is not a stock item. A tempered or laminated unit is made to size and cannot be cut, so a same-day permanent replacement is usually not possible. What is possible same-day is making the building secure and weathertight. Anyone promising otherwise is either stocking one size or planning to fit the wrong thing.
Before a board can approve a programme it needs to know what it is approving. We survey glazing across a building and report on what is failing and why — failed sealed units, balance failures, perimeter sealant at the end of its life, drainage blocked, hardware worn.
That report is usually more useful than a quotation, because it separates what needs doing now from what can wait and what does not need doing at all. On a building of a hundred windows, a hundred new windows is rarely the right answer.
Window guards. Owners of multiple dwellings have obligations under the Health Code and Administrative Code §27-2043.1, including the annual notice to tenants each January. We survey buildings and install approved guards and limiting devices — see our guards and limiters page for what is required and where guards are prohibited.
Facade inspection. Glazing and its perimeter form part of what a facade inspection looks at, and we carry out the glazing scope of remedial work arising from it.
Energy performance. Where a building is working toward emissions targets, glazing is usually the weakest element in the envelope. Our energy performance page covers what glazing can and cannot contribute — including the honest answer that it will not transform a building's rating on its own.
Certificates of insurance to the building's requirements before we start. Access arranged unit by unit with notices and a realistic allowance for no-access. Work sequenced around occupancy and trading hours. Openings never left unsecured. Documentation at completion, because an agent frequently needs to evidence to a board that the work was done and done properly.
These describe the kind of work each area brings rather than any specific client project.
Pre-war apartment buildings — the Bronx, upper Manhattan, Ocean Avenue, central Brooklyn. Whole-building window and hardware programmes, guard compliance, and the recurring finding that a building needs a hundred new locks and forty genuine rebuilds rather than a hundred new windows.
Co-op and condo boards — citywide. Where the specification must match across an elevation and the approval process is a board process. Getting that established before quoting saves a conversation later.
Commercial and mixed-use frontage — Flatbush, Third Avenue, Astoria, Downtown Brooklyn. Storefront glass, entrance doors and vestibules, with work sequenced around tenants.
High-rise residential — Long Island City, Downtown Brooklyn, the Hudson waterfront. Balcony doors, terrace balustrades and curtain wall remedial work, where hoisting and building rules shape the programme.
Hospitality — Manhattan and citywide. Hardware and glazing programmes where every unit must end up identical and rooms return to service the same day.
If you manage a building and need a glazing survey or a programme priced, call 929-235-1233. We work across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, and throughout Northern New Jersey, the Jersey Shore, Philadelphia and the Lehigh Valley.
Tell us about the opening and we will specify it for you.
