A Queens couple say they’ve scrapped their cross-country move because the company they hired to transport their belongings to California never delivered.
Jessica Salvatore hired Brooklyn-based Top Priority Moving and Storage to truck all of her and her husband’s stuff — $50,000 worth of furniture, clothes, kitchen and household items — from Woodside to Napa, Calif., this summer, according to a lawsuit.
The company was supposed to deliver on July 8, which is when Salvatore found out their boxes never left Queens. Now their stuff is trapped in a storage facility while Top Priority owner Frank Cruz ignores her calls, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
She later discovered the US Department of Transportation had suspended Top Priority’s moving-company license weeks before Salvatore hired the firm.
The snafu is “90 percent” of the reason the couple has come back to New York, Salvatore told The Post.
“We moved there to start a new life, and we lost our mind,” she said. “Who would like to live in a place far away from home, that doesn’t really feel like home?”
They’ve spent thousands in attempts to get their belongings back, said Salvatore, who is hoping a judge orders the Queens self-storage facility holding the items to release them to her without Cruz being present.
Cruz did not return a message seeking comment.