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Staten Island is different from every other borough in one defining way: most landlords here aren’t corporations. They’re homeowners. The island’s homeownership rate sits at 67.7% — more than double the citywide average — and the dominant rental setup is a two-family or three-family home where the owner lives downstairs and rents upstairs. When the tenant stops paying, it’s not a business inconvenience. It’s your mortgage, your taxes, and your insurance on the line. That’s a different kind of urgency.
What changes when you hire a licensed NYC Marshal is simple: you go from holding a piece of paper to having someone with actual legal authority act on it. Whether that means executing a Warrant of Eviction issued by the Richmond County Civil Court at 927 Castleton Avenue, initiating an income execution against an employed debtor, or levying on a debtor’s personal property — these are enforcement actions with real teeth. Collection letters don’t have that. We do.
And because Staten Island is only reachable by bridge or ferry, enforcement here requires someone who actually serves the borough — not someone who treats it as an afterthought on a Manhattan-focused schedule. We cover all five boroughs, including every neighborhood from St. George down to Tottenville, without exception.
We’ve been operating since 1988 — before much of Staten Island’s South Shore was fully built out, before the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge became the daily commute route it is today. Edward F. Guida Sr. spent more than 25 years as a New York City Marshal, earning a reputation that went well beyond his badge. Edward F. Guida Jr. was brought into the business by his father in 2007 and has carried it forward since 2014. This isn’t a new office figuring things out. It’s a second-generation operation with decades of civil enforcement experience across every borough, including Richmond County.
As Badge #14, we are a mayor-appointed public officer — not a private collection agency, not a law firm. That distinction matters because it means every enforcement action is backed by court authority and regulated by the NYC Department of Investigation. You’re not hiring a middleman. You’re engaging someone with the legal power to actually do something.
We’re equipped to handle the full range of civil enforcement: evictions, income executions, property executions, and small claims judgment enforcement — all five boroughs, every time.
The first thing to understand is that we can only act after the court has already ruled in your favor. If you’re a landlord, that means you need a Warrant of Eviction issued by the Richmond County Civil Court before any eviction can be scheduled. If you’re a creditor with a money judgment — whether from a small claims session at 927 Castleton Avenue or a full civil proceeding — the judgment itself is what authorizes enforcement. The legal fight is already over. Our job is to make the result real.
Once you contact us, you’ll provide the relevant court documents and direct us to the appropriate enforcement action. For an eviction, we serve the required notices and schedule the physical removal in compliance with the court order — conducted between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday, as required by law. For an income execution, the debtor is served first and given 20 days to respond. If they don’t, the employer is served on Day 21 and deductions begin — up to 10% of the debtor’s gross income directed toward satisfying your judgment.
For property execution, you direct us to the location of the debtor’s assets and the levy is conducted in a neutral, professional manner. Throughout every step, the process is handled by the book — because a procedural error that voids your warrant or execution is the last thing either of us needs.
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The Richmond County Civil Court handles every civil, small claims, and housing matter for the entire borough — there’s one courthouse for all of it, at 927 Castleton Avenue in West Brighton. That consolidation means every eviction warrant, every civil judgment, and every small claims ruling for Staten Island flows through one location. We enforce judgments and warrants issued by that court, as well as Supreme Court judgments from 18 Richmond Terrace, across the full geographic spread of the island — from Port Richmond on the North Shore to Great Kills and Eltingville on the South Shore.
For landlords, the primary services are Legal Possession and Eviction — the physical execution of a Warrant of Eviction once the court has issued it — and Property Execution for situations where a judgment debtor has assets that can be levied. For creditors with employed debtors, Income Execution (wage garnishment) is often the most direct path to collection. And for the large number of Staten Island small business owners and contractors who win in small claims court but never see the money, Small Claims Enforcement through property or income execution is available for judgments up to $10,000.
Richmond County’s small claims court even offers evening sessions on the third Thursday of each month — which means more Staten Island residents and business owners are obtaining judgments than ever before. Getting that judgment enforced is the next step, and that’s exactly what we’re built for.
Call us at (718) 779-2134 or email us at guidajr@nycmarshal14.com to see how we can help.