Bulk Interior Doors for NYC Buildings: The Super's Playbook
If you run a building in Manhattan, you already know the pattern: every unit turnover eats a door or two. A tenant's dog worked over the bedroom door, the bathroom door swelled up years ago and never got dealt with, the closet door left with the last occupant. Multiply that by a building — or a portfolio — and doors stop being a hardware run and start being a system. Here's the system we run for supers, property managers, and GCs across Manhattan.
Turnovers eat doors — plan for it
Doors fail on a schedule that roughly matches your vacancy schedule, and the worst time to discover that is mid-turnover, with a broker showing the unit Friday. The big-box answer — a special order, a one-to-two-week wait, and a $79 truck fee — doesn't work when the paint crew is already in the apartment. We specialize in bulk interior door orders for buildings, and the whole point is that a door should never be the thing holding up a turnover.
Put your standing sizes on file
Most buildings use the same handful of doors over and over: maybe 30" and 32" hollow-core flush for bedrooms and closets, a solid-core here and there where an owner upgraded. Give us that list once and we keep your building's standing sizes on file. After that, a reorder is one phone call — "two bedroom doors and a closet door for unit 4C" — no measuring trip, no back-and-forth. We stock widths from 18" to 36", all 80" tall, and if a prewar frame has drifted out of square, we trim the door to fit before it leaves the shop.
Volume pricing on a trade account
Buying doors by the building shouldn't cost the same as buying them one at a time. Open a trade account and you get volume pricing on bulk door orders, plus one account and one relationship for the paint, hardware, and everything else your building goes through. Details are on our commercial services page, or call and ask for a trade account.
Doors that arrive already painted your house color
This is the piece that actually speeds up turnovers. Most buildings have a standard door color — a Benjamin Moore white or off-white that every unit gets. We're an authorized Benjamin Moore dealer with an in-house paint shop: tell us your building's standard color once and every door we deliver arrives pre-painted, both sides, ready to hang. Your crew hangs it and moves on — no drop cloths in a vacant unit, no waiting on a second coat, no painter callback for one door. Units turn faster; that's the whole game.
Scheduled deliveries, Monday through Friday
We deliver Monday through Friday, straight to your building — up the stairs or to the floor you're working on, not dumped at the curb. Order by 9 AM on a weekday for same-day delivery, or set up scheduled deliveries timed to your turnover calendar: doors show up when the crew does. Free delivery over $100, which a bulk order clears easily.
The playbook, in short
Send us your building's door list once. We keep the sizes on file, price it by volume on your trade account, cut anything that needs cutting, pre-paint every door in your standard Benjamin Moore color, and deliver to the building on your schedule, Monday through Friday. You stop thinking about doors, and units turn faster.
Start with our commercial services page, browse the interior doors we keep in stock, or just call — we've been doing this for Upper East Side buildings since 1986. New York Paint & Hardware, 1668 1st Ave (between 87th & 88th), New York, NY 10128 • 212-249-1614.