The Department of Citywide Administrative Services awarded the sidewalk elevator replacement at 210 Joralemon Street to Five Star Contracting Co., Inc. for $1,250,000, according to a City Record Online posting dated October 21.
210 Joralemon is a civic address in Downtown Brooklyn — home to Brooklyn Supreme Court and other city court operations — and a sidewalk elevator there typically moves freight, records, or accessibility traffic between the street and a basement level. That's the kind of lift that can't sit broken on a courthouse block without somebody noticing.
The posting gives the award amount and the winning firm but no bidder count, no second bid, and no spread. There's no tab to read here — just the single number the city put its name on. Until DCAS posts more of the record, there's no way to say whether Five Star beat the field by a little or a lot, or whether it was the only firm that showed up.
For contractors who do this kind of institutional elevator work, the takeaway is narrower than usual: this one's done. The file is closed at $1.25 million. What's worth watching is whether DCAS posts additional detail later, or whether this award pattern — single-firm sidewalk elevator jobs at city buildings — shows up again elsewhere in the portfolio.
Five Star Contracting now has a $1.25 million public elevator contract on its book at a Brooklyn courthouse address. Firms chasing similar DCAS elevator or vertical-transportation scopes should watch CROL for the next solicitation in this line — these don't post often, and when they do, the field tends to be small.