The Department of Housing Preservation and Development has awarded an emergency demolition contract for 55A Jefferson Avenue in Brooklyn to Statewide Demolition Corp for $502,882, according to a City Record Online posting dated November 4, 2026.
The job is listed as "Immediate Emergency Demo 55A Jefferson Ave BK" under solicitation number 80627E0013001, filed in the Construction/Construction Services trade category. HPD's emergency demolition contracts move outside the normal multi-bid process by design — the city uses them when a structure is judged unsafe enough that waiting for a full competitive bid cycle isn't an option. That's consistent with what's posted here: no bidder count, no second or high bid, and no engineer's estimate accompany the award, because there was no competitive tab to tally.
That makes this one a straight award notice, not a price fight worth dissecting. There's nothing in the record to compare Statewide's number against — no second bidder to measure the spread off of, no range to call tight or wide. What the $502,882 figure does tell a contractor is the rough going rate HPD is paying right now for this kind of emergency brick-and-mortar teardown in Bedford-Stuyvesant, useful as a benchmark if you're pricing similar emergency work for the agency.
For firms that do this kind of rapid-response demolition work for HPD, the takeaway is less about this specific job and more about the lane it represents: emergency declarations bypass the open bid room, so getting on HPD's radar for these calls — before the building comes down — is the only way in. The award is posted as final on City Record Online, though HPD emergency contracts can still carry post-award modifications; nothing in this record indicates one.