OSLO RENOVATIONS

The name has been staked out near 145th and Broadway for a while now.

OSLO RENOVATIONS—a general contractor—not only holds space Downtown and in Inwood but keeps crews busy across Upper Manhattan. Floor-level openings in older walk-ups, kitchen guttings in prewar co-ops, bathroom reconfigurations; the short list of requests sounds ordinary until the permits start piling up at the corner of Broadway and 145th.

Talk through scope at 3682 Broadway #2L and decide if the plan calls for repointing brick, enlarging a parlor, or flipping a garden-level storefront to private space—detail work that starts long after the first sketching session ends. Quick passes over ceilings, walls, plumbing backs up to the street; meantime, new trim profiles sit in the shop across the way. Sites vary; timing is everything—mid-block brownstones one day, a corner cafe in Hamilton Heights the next.

Dial (646) 684-3453 to set the next walk-through or patch the blueprints before the job crosses the 155th Street line. When the taped lines hit the sidewalk, directions home are a click away: map.