HPD has awarded the emergency demolition of 2084 and 2086 Anthony Avenue in the Bronx to Statewide Demolition Corp, at $601,963. The award posted to City Record Online on September 8, and the solicitation record lists no other bidders, no engineer's estimate, and no spread to measure — just an agency, an address, and a number.

This is what HPD calls Accelerated Emergency Demolition, which is exactly what it sounds like: a building (or two) has been judged too dangerous to leave standing, and the city moves fast, without the multi-week bid cycle a normal capital project gets. That urgency shows up in the record itself — a single-source award rather than a tabulation with a field of competitors. When a job needs to happen now, there often isn't time to solicit five bidders and compare unit prices.

Six hundred grand for two vacant or condemned structures is a real number for a demolition outfit that size, and it lands in a category — emergency, city-triggered, HPD-funded — that a lot of GCs never see on the open market because it doesn't get advertised the way a standard capital bid does. Statewide Demolition Corp picked up work here without ever facing a competing number, which is normal for this program but worth knowing if you're a demo contractor wondering why some of this work never seems to hit the usual portals.

For contractors chasing HPD emergency work: the pipeline exists, it moves faster than standard procurement, and it isn't always advertised for open competition — get on HPD's emergency contractor lists if demolition or shoring is your trade, because that's how you get called before the record ever posts. For everyone else, the takeaway is narrower but real: two more unsafe buildings are off the Bronx map, and the bill for that safety was $601,963, paid without a bid war.