Anajur Construction Corp. was founded in 1997 by Jouri, an engineer who immigrated to America in 1991 and built a construction practice from inside the work itself. Twenty-eight years later, the same family still operates from 93 Commodore Drive in Charleston, Staten Island, holding NYC DCWP Home Improvement Contractor license #1220350-DCA continuously since founding. We rebuild bathrooms and kitchens, restore water damage under IICRC S500 standards, handle insurance claims through Xactimate, and reconstruct homes after fire, flood, and Hurricane Sandy. One license, one accountable contractor, one family who has been at this for the same 28 years.
Anajur Construction Corp. exists because of a specific decision Jouri made in 1997. He had been in America for six years by then, building experience in the construction trades after immigrating from his engineering practice abroad in 1991. The decision was not to start a franchise, not to chase scale, not to brand a national restoration company on Staten Island. The decision was to build a family-owned local construction practice that could be honest about what it knew and verifiable about its work.
Jouri trained as an engineer before construction work. That training shows up every day in how Anajur approaches scope. Engineers think in tolerances, code references, and load paths. They expect documentation and verify everything against a standard. When you read our Xactimate estimates, see our DOB permit filings, or watch our crews execute waterproofing per ANSI A118.10, that's the engineering discipline applied to residential construction. It's why insurance adjusters approve our scope without rounds of back-and-forth — the documentation is engineering-grade, not contractor-grade.
Anajur Construction Corp. was founded in 1997 from the family home at 93 Commodore Drive in Charleston, Staten Island. Same address today. The first jobs were neighborhood referrals — small bathroom remodels, kitchen updates, basement finish work. The license was filed with NYC DCWP under #1220350-DCA and has been continuously active since. The family stayed at the same address, the license stayed in the same hands, and the work grew through reputation rather than marketing.
Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 was the event that defined Anajur's water damage and reconstruction practice. Staten Island's East Shore was devastated — Midland Beach, Oakwood, New Dorp, Dongan Hills, Ocean Breeze took the worst of the storm surge. Homes that had stood for decades were destroyed in hours. Insurance claims overwhelmed carriers, FEMA programs ran for years, and the city's Build-It-Back program rebuilt hundreds of homes across the borough. Anajur was on the ground for that work, and the experience taught us everything about combined mitigation-and-rebuild execution that we now apply on every insurance claim project.
Twenty-eight years is a long time to operate any business from the same address. Restoration franchises change hands constantly — branches sell, owners retire, names get replaced. Family-owned contractors who have been in the same place for nearly three decades are the exception, not the rule. Anajur is still operated by the same family, from the same Staten Island address, under the same license number, by the same person who signs every contract and pulls every permit. If you hire us in 2026 and need to call about your warranty in 2034, you will reach the same family.
Most contractors specialize narrowly — bathroom remodels OR water damage mitigation OR insurance reconstruction OR kitchen renovations. We do all four under one NYC DCWP HIC license because the work overlaps constantly. A water-damaged bathroom rebuild needs mitigation, reconstruction, AND finish work. A kitchen flood needs the same. Splitting the trades across multiple contractors creates scope handoff disputes and finger-pointing. We handle the full scope under one accountable license.
Full bathroom renovations on Staten Island for discretionary remodels, age-in-place modifications, and insurance claim rebuilds. ANSI A118.10 bonded waterproofing standard, ASSE 1016 anti-scald valves per NYC Plumbing Code §424.3, Type L copper supply lines per Table 605.4. Per the 2025 Cost vs. Value Report, midrange bathroom remodel recouped 80 percent of cost at resale — the highest ROI since 2007. Standard scope $22K-$45K. Read the full bathroom remodeling guide →
Kitchen renovations covering everything from cosmetic refresh to full gut renovation. Two dedicated 20-amp small-appliance circuits per NEC 210.52(B), GFCI countertop receptacles per 210.8(A)(6), range hood ventilation per NYC Mechanical Code §403. Per the 2025 Cost vs. Value Report, minor kitchen remodel recouped 96.1 percent at resale — the highest ROI of any residential project tracked. Standard scope $25K-$80K. Read the full kitchen remodeling guide →
Emergency water damage mitigation per IICRC S500 standards. Category 1, 2, and 3 water losses. Structural drying with truck-mounted equipment, antimicrobial treatment per category, daily moisture readings logged for adjuster documentation. Mold remediation is a separate IICRC S520 specialist scope — Anajur does not perform mold remediation; we coordinate a specialist for that phase before our rebuild work begins. Direct billing on most major insurance carriers. 24/7 emergency response for active losses across all 13 Staten Island ZIP codes.
The reconstruction phase that follows mitigation — framing repair, electrical and plumbing re-rough, ANSI A118.10 waterproofing, finishes — all under NYC DCWP HIC license. Combined GC license and IICRC S500 capability means one accountable contractor handles both mitigation and rebuild. No scope handoff disputes between two contractors. One Xactimate estimate, one supplemental file, one warranty.
Anajur is based at 93 Commodore Drive in Charleston (10309). Every project we do is dispatched from Staten Island for Staten Island. No bridge crossings, no out-of-borough delays, no franchise dispatch from another state. We know which neighborhoods have galvanized supply lines and cast iron stacks (North Shore pre-war stock), which have post-Sandy elevated rebuilds and Build-It-Back history (East Shore concentration), and which have 1980s suburban housing stock with their own quirks (West Shore and South Shore).
Physical address: 93 Commodore Drive, Staten Island, NY 10309. Open in Google Maps →
Insurance adjusters check contractor licenses before approving large claims. Homeowners should do the same before signing a contract. Every credential below is verifiable at a government database — not claimed, not unverified, not "trust us." If a contractor cannot point you to a verifiable government record of their license and permit history, that is the signal that something is wrong. Here are ours, with the verification links.
Active and continuously held since 1997. The NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Home Improvement Contractor license is what legally authorizes multi-trade residential construction work in NYC. Verify at a866-dcwpbp.nyc.gov.
Anajur Construction Corp. is a registered New York State business entity. Continuously in good standing since 1997. Verify at NYS Department of State.
Every Anajur project filed with NYC Department of Buildings under our contractor name. Permit history searchable by contractor name at NYC DOB BIS. Contractors doing unpermitted work cannot show this history. We can.
General liability and workers' compensation insurance maintained continuously. Certificates of insurance available on request — we provide directly to homeowners and insurance carriers as part of the scope estimate package. Required for any DCWP-licensed contractor in NYC.
All water damage mitigation follows IICRC S500 (Water Damage Restoration) and IICRC S520 (Mold Remediation) industry standards. Our methodology aligns with what insurance adjusters expect to see in Xactimate scope documentation — categories, drying logs, antimicrobial application records.
NYC Admin Code §28-408 requires all plumbing work to be performed under direct supervision of a Licensed Master Plumber, and all electrical work by a Licensed Master Electrician. Anajur maintains formal contractor relationships with NYC-licensed LMPs and LMEs who personally sign and seal all DOB filings.
These are not marketing slogans. They are the six working principles that Anajur applies on every project, derived from twenty-eight years of figuring out what separates contractors who deliver from contractors who disappear. If you hire us, this is what we deliver every time. If you hire a different contractor, hold them to the same standards.
Hurricane Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012. Staten Island took the worst residential damage of any NYC borough — 24 deaths borough-wide, and East Shore neighborhoods (Midland Beach, Oakwood, New Dorp, Dongan Hills, Ocean Breeze) saw storm surge that destroyed homes that had stood for fifty years. The reconstruction took most of a decade. Anajur was in the middle of that work, and the experience defined how we approach combined mitigation-and-rebuild execution today.
For active water damage emergencies, free in-home estimates, insurance claim coordination, or general questions about a project. We respond to Staten Island calls same-day during business hours, within hours for active emergencies.
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93 Commodore Drive
Staten Island, NY 10309
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Free in-home estimate. Written line-item scope. NYC HIC #1220350-DCA. Family-owned on Staten Island since 1997.