“This last year, I’m not taking a salary.” He attributed the rough period to three things. “Expansion these days has been a lot more challenging. Rachmany was, in the words of one former employee, “the king of the moving companies.” But since last summer, things have taken a turn. In August 2021, it had hit a new record of 400 moves per day, grown to a fleet of 150 trucks in the city and 30 long-haul tractor-trailers, and expanded to more than a million square feet of storage space - “owned, not leased,” Rachmany noted.
Until recently, Dumbo had been winning in lots of ways. He didn’t want to gloat, but last season, Dumbo had been league champion. I fell on the floor so many times.” That, he added, was an unusual occurrence. “The last time, they came just to hurt us. “Hopefully, they’re more sportive tonight,” said Lior Rachmany, Dumbo’s founder and CEO. “It’s them.” Dumbo had recently sued Piece of Cake, which was founded by a former Dumbo mover in 2017, for misappropriation of trade secrets, and Dumbo players said the previous soccer match between the companies had taken on an unsportsmanlike edge - Dumbo’s best player had been tackled from behind, disabling him for the rest of the game. “Do you know who this company is?” one Dumbo mover whispered to another. Players from Dumbo Moving and Storage warmed up on one side of the field as the Piece of Cake team, in the company’s signature colors - hot pink and purple - did drills on the other. On a soccer field in McCarren Park, two rival moving companies were getting ready to face off in a more visceral fashion. It was late May, the height of New York’s peak moving season, when double-parked trucks clutter the streets of Brooklyn, their logos providing a crude ranking of their competitive strength.
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