We move the barriers mid-job and pick them up when your rental ends. Need a sidewalk shed or scaffold on the same curb? We put those up too, plus the fence, so you’re dealing with one crew for the whole frontage instead of three.
Jersey barriers are the heavy concrete sections you’ve seen lined up along road work, linked end to end. On a job site, they keep traffic away from your crew. They can also wall off an open lot or steer people on foot around work in the street.
Contractors rent barriers when the job reaches the curb:
Every barrier we handle is a rental, so you never buy one, store one or haul one away.
Give us the linear feet you need to close, and we turn that into a barrier count and a layout, so you skip the guesswork over unit lengths.
Send these details with your request:
Tell us how many feet, where and for how long, and we quote delivery through pickup.
A fence on top of the barrier line closes the site, and a screen on the fence blocks the view in. The line holds the panels at the curb, so the fence follows the street edge.
Plan the fence for wind. In March 2024, high winds knocked down two construction fences in Queens and Manhattan, and DOB reported five injuries. In Long Island City, a barricade with attached chain link blew into a pedestrian. In East Harlem, a long run of barriers and chain link fell onto a sidewalk.
Inspectors found the barriers unlocked and unfilled, with no water or sand, and DOB issued violations to both general contractors for not following the manufacturer’s specifications. Those were fill-type barriers. Our concrete barriers take no fill, but the fence still has to be tied in correctly, so ask us how it attaches and get the manufacturer’s or engineer’s guidance before you add screens or mesh.
For panels on standard stands, see our temporary fencing rental.
One crew runs every step:
Think the job might run long? Tell us at the start, since we schedule pickup around your rental term.
Construction work in the street next to a building job generally needs a DOT Building Operations and Construction Activity permit. You’ll need one to place or store material or equipment in the street, or to temporarily close a sidewalk or roadway. Building a temporary pedestrian walkway in the roadway needs one too. The general contractor or construction manager gets the permit. DOT’s own example is a sidewalk shed or scaffold with footings and a barrier that extends past the curb into the roadway.
DOT’s pages don’t name jersey barriers, so before delivery, confirm with DOT whether your barrier line needs its own permit.
Holiday Construction Embargo. Every year around the holidays, DOT halts routine roadway and sidewalk work on a long list of streets in all five boroughs. Work there needs DOT’s sign-off first. For 2026, the embargo starts November 15 and runs through January 2, 2027, from 6 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. Check DOT’s embargo page to see whether your street is on the list.
Work running into the holiday season? Plan the barrier dates with us now.
On plenty of NYC jobs, the barrier line ends up on the same stretch of curb as the shed and the scaffold. When three vendors set them up, each one works around the other two. Our crew sets up all three, so the barrier line, the shed roof and the scaffold base fit together on day one.
Our shed and scaffold work includes 136 Chester Ave in Brooklyn (2019), 2404-2432 Cambreleng Ave in the Bronx (2021) and 2 Park Ave in Manhattan (2025).
The same crew also handles sidewalk sheds, pipe scaffolding, frame scaffolding and temporary fencing. Browse our other site protection services or learn about our company.
Call us at (929) 566-7313 with the address, the linear feet and your dates, and we’ll quote the job. Rather not call? Send the quote form.
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