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A&L Cesspool vacuum tanker on an airport apron with a JetBlue aircraft at the gate behind it

Since 1975. All five boroughs. 200+ jobs a day.

Grease traps, cesspools, sewers, and storm drains for the restaurants, buildings, and agencies that keep New York running. Family owned in Long Island City since 1975, and dispatch answers around the clock.

Licensed and permitted

2630400336
NYS Environmental Conservation
775
NYC Business Integrity Commission
CB029806, S12-12
NYC Environmental Protection
23
NYC Department of Sanitation
15 programs
OSHA 10 and 30-hour, confined space

Who we serve and what we do

Restaurants and food service

Traps and interceptors on a set cycle, plus the cesspool and drain work that comes with a working kitchen.

How we serve restaurants and food service

RVs and food trucks

Bring RV holding-tank waste or food-truck used cooking oil to our Long Island City yard. Call before you pull in.

How we serve RVs and food trucks

Property and facilities

Ejector pits, catch basins, and retention tanks across a portfolio, on one schedule and one point of contact.

How we serve property and facilities

Schools, agencies, and airports

Documented service for public buildings, scheduled around the hours the building is empty.

How we serve schools, agencies, and airports

Homeowners

We still pump cesspools and septic tanks for homeowners. Same trucks, same crews that run the commercial route.

How we serve homeowners

Drums. Dumpsters. Drain treatment.

We sell grease caddies, 55-gallon drums and dollies, grease dumpsters, funnels, Bio-Snake Blocks, Drain Bug, Lemon Burst, and Cherry Deodorizer. Call for current sizes, stock, and pricing.

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Clients we run for

Restaurants, retail, and property in the NYC metro area

Starbucks
McDonald's
Coca-Cola
Hilton
Google
Whole Foods Market
JLL
Disney
Stop & Shop
Wendy's
Dunkin' Donuts
Burger King

Schools, agencies, and airports

We hold badged airside access at the airports we service, and we clear the procurement screens a public buyer runs before a purchase order goes out.

  • Registered in SAM.gov for federal contracting.
  • Registered in NYC PASSPort with the Mayor's Office of Contract Services.
  • Prevailing wage and certified payroll compliant under NYS Labor Law Article 8.
  • NAICS 562998. We file our workplace safety data under this code, and our injury rate comes in below the industry average.
A&L Cesspool vacuum tanker working on an airport apron

One call covers every location

15

Risk networks that already hold our COI

Add a location and there's no vendor packet to assemble. Our insurance and compliance file is already current in the network your buildings screen through.

Avetta (Premier) Achilles / GRMS Appfolio Aravo BCS Certificial Evident ID FHS Risk Jaggaer GetJones Lycensed MyCOI Net Vendor RealPage Core SV3
12

Work order systems we already run on

Dispatch us the way you dispatch everyone else. Invoices come back through the same system, per location, no new process for your team.

ServiceChannel CorrigoPro Coupa Arriva InvoiceWorks MerchantOPS Paymode Polaris ResQ Tungsten VAWS Vendor Café
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We don't do plumbing. It's why plumbers call us.

Plumbing and hood cleaning companies subcontract their grease trap work to us. Trap work is our whole trade.

  • The account stays yours. We don't quote the location.
  • Bill it to you or to each store. Your call.
  • Service records come back per location, dated.
  • Every location you service, on one account.
Set up a subcontract account
A&L technician working a sewer ejector line beside the green jetting van

The fleet

Green A&L Cesspool vacuum tanker in the Long Island City depot

Vacuum tankers

3,500 gallon capacity, so the biggest tanks and traps in the city clear in one trip.

A&L JetVac truck at an open catch basin in a pharmacy parking lot with cones set out

JetVactors

Jetting and vacuum on one truck. Catch basins, mains, and lot drains.

Grease trucks

2,500 gallon grease trucks. Trap waste and cooking oil, straight back to the transfer station.

Bright green A&L jetting van with its rear doors open at a brick apartment building

Jetting vans

Sewer ejector tanks and basement lines, where a truck won't fit.

Green A&L Recycling tanker on a Manhattan street outside a glass office building

Recycling tankers

Midtown theatres and hotels, serviced once the block is clear.

The Silver Bullet, A&L's compact white truck with a stainless tank, parked on a tree-lined New York street with the hose coiled

The Silver Bullet

Our 1,500 gallon tanker. Narrow streets, smaller traps, and the blocks where a full tanker can't get in.

A&L technician running a portable blue vacuum machine, hose in hand, in a café service line

Grease box trucks

Portable machines, dispatched on a box truck for the traps a hose can't reach: upper floors, kitchens with no street access, or when you'd rather not run a hose through the dining room.

Grease waste is our business

A&L Recycling is our grease waste division. It runs our transfer station in Long Island City: trap waste and used cooking oil come in, biodiesel feedstock goes out.

Nobody hauls your trap waste out of the city and bills you for the miles. The paperwork ends where the waste ends.

Learn more about the transfer station Learn more about used cooking oil pickup
Green A&L Recycling tanker on a Manhattan street outside a glass office building

The crew

Customers ask for our people by name

Bernard, Frank, Sal, Tony, Kevin, Vinny, Mark, and John all turn up by name in our Google reviews. Customers remember who serviced their building and ask for them the next time.

Our technicians stay long enough for that to happen. Bernard Hollis has run the JetVactor for twenty years and trains the technicians running it now.

  • The same crew comes back to your location.
  • Every technician is trained in-house, on our own trucks.
  • 15 structured safety programs, including three tiers of confined space qualification.
  • Full FMCSA driver compliance. Drug and alcohol testing, background checks, annual queries.
  • Three generations of the same family since 1975.
A&L technician running a sewer ejector line from the green jetting van at a brick apartment building

Reviews

4.5
out of 5 on Google

Serving commercial and municipal New York out of Long Island City.

“Bernard and his crew did a great job cleaning the sewer at Caesars Bay. You can tell they know what they're doing.”
Google review
“When my commercial space started backing up water, A&L saved us. No one knew what was causing it, and their techs were able to trace it all and fix the problem on the spot. They were able to trace it back to an issue with the municipal system, and saved me thousands.”
Google review
“I called for my restaurant and within 3 hours they were there.”
Restaurant owner, Google review
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Service area

Green A&L jetting van parked at a large brick apartment building on a New York street
Dispatched from Long Island City

38-40 Review Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101 (opens in new tab)

Contact

There's always someone on call

Tell us the address and what's backing up. We'll tell you when we can be there.

A&L technician in hi-vis working a JetVac hose into an apron drain at an airport gate

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