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NYC Marshal Services in Long Island City, NY
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Eviction Marshal and Judgment Collection, Queens NY
Long Island City is Queens’ most expensive rental market — studios, one-bedrooms, two-bedrooms, all the priciest in the borough. When a tenant defaults here, you’re not dealing with a modest shortfall. You’re losing thousands of dollars a month while a court order sits on your desk doing nothing. That’s the gap we fill. The court issued the judgment. Now someone has to go collect it.
What changes when you engage our office is simple: enforcement actually happens. Wages get garnished. Property gets seized. A warrant of eviction gets executed. The process that stalled at the courthouse steps starts moving again. For landlords managing luxury towers near Hunters Point or Court Square, that movement is the difference between recovering your losses and writing them off.
Long Island City’s population is genuinely mixed — professional tenants in glass towers near Queensboro Plaza, long-term residents in rent-stabilized buildings, business owners along Jackson Avenue. The enforcement approach that works for one debtor won’t work for another. Income execution, property execution, bank levy — each tool exists for a reason, and knowing which one applies to your specific situation is where experience matters most.
NYC Marshal Serving Queens County
We’ve been enforcing civil judgments in New York City since 1988 — founded by Edward F. Guida Sr., continued by Edward F. Guida Jr. after his appointment as Marshal, City of New York in 2016. The office manager and staff who worked under the founder still work under the current marshal. That’s not a talking point — it’s institutional knowledge that doesn’t get rebuilt from scratch every few years.
Our office is located in Corona, Queens, the same borough as Long Island City. That matters when we’re coordinating enforcement actions in Long Island City’s mix of new luxury towers, converted industrial spaces, and NYCHA buildings — and when our cases run through Queens Housing Court in Jamaica. A Queens-based marshal who knows this borough’s courts and logistics is simply more efficient than one working across borough lines.
We hold Badge #14, issued by the Mayor of New York City, and are regulated by the NYC Department of Investigation. You can verify that appointment directly on NYC.gov. No guesswork, no ambiguity.
Income Execution and Eviction Process, Long Island City
The process starts with you providing the judgment documentation — the court order, the debtor’s information, and whatever asset details you have. The more you know about where the debtor works or what they own, the faster enforcement moves. If you’re pursuing an income execution against a professional tenant who commutes into Manhattan for work, that employer information is what triggers the garnishment. Long Island City’s position as a one-stop subway ride from Midtown means a significant share of its residents earn salaries at Manhattan firms — and those employers are reachable through income execution regardless of which borough they’re in.
For income execution, the process has two stages. First, we serve the execution on the debtor directly, giving them 20 days to contact our office and arrange voluntary payment. If they don’t, we serve the execution on the employer on day 21. The employer then withholds up to 10% of the debtor’s gross wages each pay period and remits those funds until the judgment is satisfied.
For evictions, a Warrant of Eviction must already be issued by the court before we can act — we execute the warrant, not the underlying case. Once the warrant is in hand, we coordinate the execution in compliance with current state law, including the 2024 requirement to post eviction notices to the state court website within 24 hours of service. Every step is documented, every deadline tracked. We use current technology specifically to prevent the procedural errors that can invalidate an enforcement action and force you to start over.
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NYC Marshal Services for Queens Landlords and Creditors
We handle the full range of civil enforcement authorized under New York law. That includes income execution for wage garnishment, property execution for seizure of cash or personal property, Supreme Court and Civil Court judgment collection, landlord and tenant services including both legal possession and eviction, and small claims enforcement across all five boroughs.
For Long Island City specifically, a few of these services come up more often than you’d expect. The neighborhood’s rapid development since the 2001 rezoning from industrial to residential has produced a dense mix of new market-rate rentals, converted commercial spaces, and legacy rent-stabilized buildings — each with different legal dynamics. The Good Cause Eviction Law, which took effect on April 20, 2024, added new procedural requirements for landlords in unregulated apartments, which covers most of Long Island City’s newer luxury stock. Working with a marshal whose office stays current on those requirements protects you from having an otherwise valid enforcement action dismissed on procedural grounds.
Small claims winners in Queens are also worth mentioning here — many people who win at Queens Small Claims Court don’t realize they can engage us to enforce that judgment by income execution or property execution across all five boroughs. If the debtor has a job or owns property, there are real collection options available. The statutory fees for enforcement are typically added to what the debtor owes, so the cost of engaging our office often comes back to you as part of the recovery.
How do I hire a NYC Marshal to enforce a judgment in Long Island City?
Once you have a civil court judgment — whether from Queens Civil Court, NYC Housing Court, or Supreme Court — you contact our office directly and provide the judgment documentation along with any information you have about the debtor’s employment or assets. We cannot initiate enforcement without a valid judgment already in hand; that’s the court’s role. Your role as the creditor is to provide the paperwork and whatever asset information you can gather, because our ability to collect depends heavily on knowing where to look.
For Long Island City residents and landlords, the relevant court for residential landlord-tenant matters is Queens Housing Court, located in Jamaica. If your judgment came from there, it’s enforceable through our office. You don’t need to hire an attorney to engage us, though many creditors work through their attorney’s office. Either way, the process starts with a conversation about what you have and what enforcement avenue makes the most sense given what you know about the debtor.
What is the difference between income execution and property execution in New York?
Income execution is wage garnishment — we serve a notice on the debtor and, if they don’t arrange voluntary payment within 20 days, we serve the execution on their employer. The employer then withholds up to 10% of the debtor’s gross wages per pay period and sends those funds to our office, which remits them to you. This is the most effective tool when the debtor has steady employment, and in Long Island City, where a large share of residents commute into Manhattan for professional jobs, it’s often the right first move.
Property execution is different — it involves us seizing cash or personal property owned by the debtor to satisfy the judgment. This is more relevant when the debtor doesn’t have regular employment but owns assets: business equipment, inventory, vehicles, or other personal property. For Long Island City’s commercial corridor along Jackson Avenue or Queens Plaza, property execution can be used against a business that owes a judgment. The two tools aren’t mutually exclusive — depending on what you know about the debtor, one or both may be appropriate, and we can help you think through which approach fits your situation.
Can a NYC Marshal evict a tenant without a court order in Long Island City?
No. We cannot initiate an eviction based on a landlord’s request alone. A Warrant of Eviction must first be issued by the court — Queens Housing Court in the case of residential tenants in Long Island City — before we have any legal authority to act. Our role is to execute the warrant, not to decide whether eviction is warranted. That determination belongs entirely to the court.
This distinction matters practically because some landlords contact us expecting us to handle the entire process from the beginning. That’s not how it works. You need to file your case in Queens Housing Court, receive a judgment of possession, and obtain a Warrant of Eviction before we can schedule and execute the removal. Once that warrant is in hand, we coordinate the execution — including compliance with the 2024 state law requiring online posting of eviction notices within 24 hours of service, which is a requirement some offices have not been meeting consistently. Working with a compliant, organized office protects the validity of the entire action.
Does the Good Cause Eviction Law affect landlords in Long Island City differently than other Queens neighborhoods?
It does, in a meaningful way. The Good Cause Eviction Law, which took effect on April 20, 2024, gives tenants in unregulated (market-rate) apartments the right to challenge evictions that lack sufficient cause and to contest rent increases above certain thresholds. Long Island City has one of the largest concentrations of new, market-rate luxury rental units in Queens — the towers built since the 2001 rezoning from industrial to residential are largely unregulated. That means a significant portion of Long Island City’s rental stock is now subject to Good Cause protections that didn’t exist before April 2024.
For landlords in Long Island City’s newer buildings, this changes the procedural landscape. A non-payment case that would have moved quickly through Queens Housing Court under the old framework may now involve additional tenant defenses. More importantly, any eviction action that isn’t procedurally airtight — including our execution of the warrant — creates an opening for a legal challenge. An error in the execution process can delay or invalidate an otherwise valid eviction, which is costly in a market where Long Island City rents are the highest in the borough. Working with us means that risk is minimized.
What happens if the debtor who owes me money has no job or visible assets?
This is one of the most common concerns creditors have before engaging us, and it’s worth being direct about: if a debtor genuinely has no income, no bank accounts, and no seizable personal property, collection is difficult regardless of what enforcement tools are available. A judgment doesn’t expire immediately — in New York, a civil court judgment can be renewed — but we can only collect what actually exists to collect.
That said, “I don’t know what they have” is different from “they have nothing.” Many creditors assume a debtor is uncollectable before doing any real investigation. A debtor who appears unemployed may have unreported income, a side business, or personal property worth pursuing through property execution. A bank account may exist even if the debtor isn’t forthcoming about it. In Long Island City, where some debtors are professionals who have changed jobs or moved between employers, the situation can shift over time. Our office can advise you on what information to gather and which enforcement avenue to try first — and if one avenue doesn’t produce results, others may still be available.
Is Edward F. Guida Jr #14 Marshal Services authorized to enforce small claims judgments in Queens?
Yes. We are authorized to enforce small claims court judgments by income execution or property execution across all five boroughs, including Queens. Many people who win at Queens Small Claims Court walk away thinking the judgment is essentially decorative — that if the other party won’t pay voluntarily, there’s nothing left to do. That’s not accurate. A small claims judgment is a civil court judgment, and it’s enforceable through the same marshal process as any other judgment.
For Long Island City residents, this comes up in situations like disputes with contractors, former landlords, neighbors, or small business transactions where the amount at stake is significant enough to fight for but not large enough to justify a full civil lawsuit. The statutory fees for income execution are set by New York State law — they’re not arbitrary — and they’re typically added to what the debtor owes rather than coming out of your recovery. If the debtor has a job or owns property in Queens or anywhere else in the five boroughs, there’s a real path to collecting what the court already said is yours.