Smart Lock
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Smart Lock Not Working in NYC?

A keypad that went dark, a bridge that dropped offline after a router swap, a motor that strains against a door that has swollen in the summer humidity, codes that stopped syncing, or a lobby strike that buzzes but no longer lets anyone in — those are service calls, not new installs. We book them into the next open 2-hour window where we can, and most alignment, power and pairing faults are fixed in one to two hours once a tech is at the door. For a lobby door that hums but won't release, a failed electric strike repair runs $295–$485 on our published door-buzzer pages. Call (800) 486-0943 and say it is a smart lock problem, or see our door buzzer repair service in NYC if the fault is on the building entrance.

Smart Lock Installation for New York City's Architecture

The door you have decides the lock you can fit. These are the building types we see most across the five boroughs and what each means for a keyless install.

Door and lock specifics we check on every New York job

Mortise or cylindrical? A bored cylindrical deadbolt sits in a round hole through the face of the door with a short latch into the edge. A mortise lock is a rectangular box sunk into a pocket cut into the edge of the door, with the cylinder screwed into it from outside. Most consumer smart deadbolts and most retrofit units are designed for the first. On a mortise door the choices are a smart lock made in mortise format, keeping the mortise body and changing only the cylinder and trim where the products allow it, or adding a separate smart deadbolt where the door has room and the building permits it. A 2014 thread on the SmartThings community that is still being added to opens with a New Yorker's question — “I have metal Brownstone doors with mortise-type locks. Are there any smart locks for this type?” — and more than a decade of replies never settles on a simple drop-in answer. That matches what we see: mortise doors need a decision, not a default.

Steel-clad and kalamein doors. Many older apartment and stair doors are fire-rated slab doors with a gypsum core, sometimes clad in steel — the type the trade calls kalamein. Fire-safety writing notes that older examples sometimes had an asbestos-cement core and that many are still in buildings put up before 1980. We don't core or rout an older rated door blind. Where a lock change needs new holes in a door that might be original, we stop, tell you, and work with the building on whether the door can be prepared or whether a surface-applied or cylinder-swap approach is the safer route.

Door thickness and backset. Heavy pre-war doors are often thicker than the range a consumer lock's tailpiece is built for, and the backset — the distance from the door edge to the centre of the lock — may not match. We measure both before you buy, or before we open the box if you already have.

Self-closing hardware. City law requires doors opening onto interior corridors and stairs in residential buildings to be self-closing, and HPD can write a class C immediately hazardous violation when they aren't maintained. A smart lock that drags, or a motor-driven bolt that can't throw because the door no longer pulls fully shut, turns into a self-closing problem. We adjust the strike and closer so the door latches on its own before we call the job finished.

One-motion exit from inside. Every lock we fit on a dwelling-unit door opens from the inside without a key, a code or a phone. HPD says double-cylinder locks are illegal on apartment doors. Keypad models with a keyed or coded inside are not something we install on a residential entrance.

Most building owners who modernise the unit doors also pair the job with the street door. See our NYC door buzzer installation service if the entrance still runs on an older buzzer and strike.

Smart Lock Installation in NYC: Questions Answered

These are the questions New Yorkers ask before a smart lock goes on a door, grouped by who is asking: renters, co-op and condo owners, anyone dealing with fire-safety rules and old doors, building owners managing several units, and shop owners. Cost, scheduling and warranty questions are in the FAQ further down. None of this is legal advice; where a statute or city rule is mentioned, we name it so you can read it yourself or ask your own lawyer.

Renting in New York

Can a New York City renter put a smart lock on the apartment door without asking the landlord?

Partly. Multiple Dwelling Law § 51-c gives a tenant in a multiple dwelling the right to install and maintain their own lock on the apartment's entrance door in addition to the lock the owner provides. The lock can be no more than three inches in circumference, and the tenant must give the landlord or the landlord's agent a duplicate key when asked. Any lease clause that charges extra rent or a fee for exercising that right is void. The section does not cover apartments in a municipal housing authority building, or units used as a hotel, motel or dormitory.

What the law describes is an additional lock, not a replacement. Taking out the owner's deadbolt and putting a keypad model in its place is a different act, and most leases treat it as an alteration that needs consent. The two routes that stay comfortably inside a tenant's rights are a retrofit unit that replaces only the inside thumb-turn of the existing deadbolt — the outside of the door and the landlord's key are unchanged — or a separate, modest secondary lock where the door has room for one. We will tell you which applies to your door before we start, and we keep the job reversible.

Our honest advice is still to send management a short note. It costs nothing, it heads off a letter from the managing agent, and it gives you a paper trail if anyone later says the lock was not allowed.

Does the landlord get a code or a key to a tenant-installed smart lock?

The law speaks of a duplicate key, so the safe assumption is that the owner is entitled to a working mechanical means of opening the lock you add, on request. With a retrofit unit that sits over the existing deadbolt, that is already taken care of: the landlord's key opens the door exactly as before. With a separate keypad deadbolt, choose a model with a keyed cylinder so a physical key can be handed over. A temporary PIN code is a courtesy you can also offer, but it is not a substitute for what the statute describes.

The reason buildings insist is emergency access — a burst pipe, a fire, a medical emergency when you are away. A New York court ordered a Manhattan co-op shareholder in the 1990s to surrender a duplicate key without conditions after she tried to limit when the building could use it, according to the Cooperator's account of 111 Tenants Corp. v. Stromberg. Plan for the key, not around it.

Can my landlord make a phone app the only way into my apartment?

Not under the Tenant Data Privacy Act. Local Law 63 of 2021 applies to owners of multiple dwellings that use smart access systems — key fobs, cards, apps or biometric readers — and HPD's summary says an owner may not require use of a smart access system to gain entry to the tenant's own dwelling unit. The law also requires express consent, in writing or through the app, before the owner collects tenants' reference data, limits what may be collected, bars selling it, and says the data cannot be used to harass or evict.

In practice that means a unit door that a landlord converts to keyless still needs a non-smart way in for a tenant who wants one, usually a key. The 2019 Hell's Kitchen case, where tenants sued for a physical key after app-based locks went in and an elderly resident couldn't operate the new lock, is the situation the rule was written to prevent.

What happens to my smart lock when I move out of a rental?

If you installed it, it is generally yours to take, and the door should go back to the way you found it. That is the strongest argument for a retrofit unit: we remove it, refit the original thumb-turn, and the door looks untouched. A separate secondary lock leaves holes, so either agree with the landlord that it stays, or budget for the door to be patched and the lock removed.

Before you hand back the keys, delete the lock from your account, remove any guest codes and factory-reset it, so the next tenant isn't living behind a lock that still answers to your phone. If the landlord is keeping it, transfer ownership in the app rather than leaving your account attached.

Co-op and condo boards

Does a co-op board or condo board have to approve a smart lock on my unit door?

It depends on the building's rules and on what is being changed. Co-op and condo alteration agreements are written mainly for renovation work — walls, plumbing, electrical, windows — and the Cooperator notes that the line for small cosmetic jobs varies from building to building. The unit entrance door is a particular case, though: in many buildings its exterior face, its fire rating and its closer are treated as building elements, and the hallway side is common space.

A retrofit lock that changes nothing on the corridor side is the least likely to need approval. A full deadbolt swap, a new hole in the door, a change of hardware finish visible from the hall, or anything that touches a fire-rated door is more likely to. Ask the managing agent one specific question — “Does replacing the deadbolt on my unit door need board approval or an alteration agreement?” — and send us the answer. Boards also routinely ask for proof that the contractor is licensed and insured; we send the certificate of insurance to the agent before the visit.

Can a co-op board insist on a working key when the shareholder goes keyless?

Usually yes. Proprietary leases commonly give the corporation the right to enter at reasonable times on notice and at any time in an emergency, and require a shareholder who changes a lock to deliver a duplicate of the new key. That is on top of the Multiple Dwelling Law's duplicate-key provision. Keyless entry does not change the obligation; it changes how you meet it.

The cleanest way is a smart deadbolt with a keyed override and a key lodged with management, or a retrofit unit that leaves the building's key working. A code given to the superintendent can be added as well, but keep in mind that codes can be changed or deleted from a phone without anyone noticing, which is exactly why boards prefer a mechanical key they can rely on.

Fire rules and old doors

Is a keypad deadbolt that needs a key on the inside legal on a New York apartment door?

No. HPD's fire-safety guidance says it is illegal to install double-cylinder locks on apartment doors because they can trap people inside during a fire, and that apartment doors should open from inside without a key. Some keypad and decorative models are sold with a key cylinder on both faces or a code required to exit; neither belongs on a New York dwelling-unit entrance.

The model-code commentary that most American building codes follow allows a dwelling-unit door to have a second releasing motion for a deadbolt, night latch or chain, provided it opens from the inside without a key or tool; NYC's own code and the authority having jurisdiction have the final word on any specific door. Our rule on residential doors is simple: thumb-turn or lever inside, nothing that needs a code, a phone or a key to get out.

Will a smart lock interfere with the self-closing door the city requires?

It can, if it is fitted carelessly. Local Law 111 of 2018 requires doors that open onto interior corridors or stairs in residential occupancies to be self-closing, and HPD treats an unmaintained self-closing door as a class C immediately hazardous violation with 21 days to correct. HPD's fire-safety page puts it as buildings with three or more apartments needing self-closing doors and residents not tampering with them.

A motorised smart deadbolt does not close a door, and it cannot throw its bolt if the door hasn't fully latched. If the strike is slightly out of line, the closer gets blamed for a door that won't lock, and someone props it or loosens the closer. We set the strike so the latch catches on the closer's swing alone, check that the bolt throws without the door being pushed, and leave the closer as we found it unless you ask us to adjust it. On a new install that is part of the job; on an existing problem it is a short service call.

Can a smart lock go on a steel-clad fire door in a pre-war building?

Often, but carefully. Many older apartment and stair doors are fire-rated assemblies — some with a gypsum core under wood or steel skins, the type known as kalamein — and fire-safety writing notes that some older ones had an asbestos-cement core. Cutting a new bore or enlarging an existing one changes the door, and on a rated door that is not a casual decision.

Our approach on these doors is to use what is already there. A retrofit unit on an existing single-cylinder deadbolt needs no new holes. A smart lock that fits the existing mortise pocket or uses the existing bore is next best. Where a lock you want would need new preparation on a rated or possibly original door, we stop, explain the options and, in a co-op or condo, let the building weigh in before anything is drilled.

Can a mortise lock on a co-op unit door go smart when the hallway side has to match the building?

Yes, and in many pre-war co-ops that matching requirement is the real design constraint. Some buildings that have kept uniform corridor hardware — the same lever or knob, escutcheon and finish on every unit door — expect the hallway face to stay that way, while what happens inside the apartment is the shareholder's business. That points toward solutions that leave the outside alone: a retrofit unit on a separate single-cylinder deadbolt where the door has one, or a smart conversion that changes only the inside trim of the lock.

Where a shareholder wants a keypad on the hallway side, we bring the managing agent a photo of the proposed trim in the building's finish and the lock's specification before anything is ordered. Mortise-format smart locks replace the lock body in the existing pocket, which avoids new holes in a heavy door, but they do change what the corridor sees. We measure the pocket, the backset and the door thickness first, and we would rather tell you the board is likely to say no than install something that has to come off.

Can the Wi-Fi bridge or hub go in the public hallway outside my apartment?

Usually not, and it rarely needs to. The corridor, its outlets and its ceiling belong to the building, not to the unit, so plugging your own equipment into a hallway outlet or fixing anything to a corridor wall is the kind of thing house rules and managing agents object to, and a device left in a common area can simply walk away. Bridges and border routers belong inside the apartment, as close to the entrance as an outlet allows.

That is normally close enough. August, for example, recommends keeping its Connect bridge within 10 to 15 feet of the lock with full Wi-Fi bars where the bridge sits, which in most apartments means a foyer, coat-closet or hall outlet on your side of the door. If the only nearby outlet is in the corridor, the answer is a lock with Wi-Fi built in, a mesh node inside the unit, or a Matter-over-Thread lock paired to a border router in the front room — not a box in the hallway.

Building owners and small landlords

Should the lobby door and the apartment doors be on the same keyless system?

Sometimes, but not by default. The building entrance is the owner's responsibility and, in class A buildings of eight or more units, usually tied to an intercom with remote door release under the Multiple Dwelling Law. The unit doors are where tenants' rights and the Tenant Data Privacy Act bite hardest. One platform for both is convenient for a small owner, but it also means every tenant's unit access sits in the same database as their lobby entries, with the consent, data-minimisation and 90-day retention rules attached.

For two- to six-family buildings, a common and sensible split is a keypad or fob reader with an electric strike on the street door, run by the owner, and individual unit locks that remain keyed, with smart features only where the tenant opts in. Larger buildings with a managing agent usually want the lobby, package room and amenity doors on one access-control platform and unit doors left out of it.

As a small landlord, how do I cut off a former tenant's code without breaking the lockout law?

Timing is everything. New York City's unlawful-eviction law, Administrative Code § 26-521, makes it unlawful to remove, plug or disable the lock on the entrance door, or to change it without giving the occupant a key, for anyone who has lawfully occupied the unit for thirty consecutive days or more, unless there is a court warrant or a government vacate order. Section 26-523 makes a violation a class A misdemeanour with civil penalties of $1,000 to $10,000 per violation. Deleting a sitting occupant's code is functionally the same as changing the lock on them.

So deactivate a credential only after possession has actually and lawfully passed back to you: keys returned, the unit surrendered, or the marshal's eviction carried out. Keep a written log of who holds which code or fob and when each was issued and removed. We set up the system so that removing one tenant's access is one action that doesn't affect anyone else, and we can do the re-keying or re-enrolment on the day you take the unit back.

What does the Tenant Data Privacy Act change for an owner adding fob or app entry?

It turns a hardware purchase into a policy decision. HPD's summary of Local Law 63 of 2021 lists the main duties: get express consent before collecting reference data; collect only the listed categories (name, unit and doors, contact preference, biometric data if used, device identifiers, credentials, lease dates, and time and method of access, the last solely for security); destroy authentication data within 90 days unless anonymised; don't sell, lease or disclose it except as the law requires or with consent; keep the system secure; don't track people outside the building; and don't use the data to harass or evict. Tenants get a private right of action over unlawful data sales.

When we install a system for an owner, we pick settings that make those duties easier: log retention set to the shortest period the platform allows, no location tracking, credentials issued per unit rather than per guessable code, and a non-smart way into each apartment for any tenant who doesn't consent. The legal responsibility stays with the owner, so have your own counsel review the consent form you give tenants.

Shops and storefronts

What smart lock works on a storefront door behind a roll-down gate?

Narrow aluminium storefront doors rarely have room for a residential smart deadbolt; their stiles are thin and the locks are usually narrow-backset deadlocks. The practical keyless options are a keypad or reader on the wall or frame driving an electric strike, or a keyless narrow-stile lock made for that door type. Either way, the door has to open from inside without a key when the shop is occupied, and the keypad has to be reachable once the gate is up but protected when it is down.

The gate itself is its own question. A 2009 city law set July 1, 2026 as the deadline for many storefront gates to be at least 70 percent transparent; in July 2026 the City Council unanimously passed Int. 910 to repeal that deadline so a compliant gate is needed only when you replace the gate for other reasons, with Department of Buildings permit rules unchanged. If a gate replacement is on your list anyway, tell us at the walkthrough so the reader position and cable route suit the new gate. On our published access-control pages, a single-door keypad or fob reader with electric strike runs $1,500–$2,500 installed at the Brooklyn base.

What AI Gets Wrong About Smart Lock Installation in NYC

A note on method: Google's AI Overview could not be viewed from the tools used to research this page, so nothing below is presented as its exact words. Each heading is a claim that cost sites, manufacturers or general guides publish, and that answer engines tend to repeat. Under each is what changes when the door is in a New York apartment building.

“Smart lock installation costs about $250 to $400”

That range is Fixr's national figure, updated in January 2025, with an average of $300 for a Wi-Fi lock and one accessory and handyman labour at $50 to $100 an hour. As a national average for a bored deadbolt on a wood door in a house, it is a fair starting point.

It says nothing about a mortise lock in an eighty-year-old steel door, a fire-rated door that shouldn't be drilled, a managing agent who wants a certificate of insurance before you arrive, or a fifth-floor walk-up. Those are the conditions that decide the real price in this city.

That is why we quote apartment-door installs flat after a free walkthrough rather than repeating a national range, and why lobby and storefront work is priced from the access-control figures already published on this site.

“Any homeowner can install a smart lock in 30 minutes with a screwdriver”

Product testers do report that a retrofit or a like-for-like deadbolt swap takes little more than a Phillips screwdriver and half an hour. On the right door, that is true, and we tell renters with a standard single-cylinder deadbolt that they may not need us at all.

Most New Yorkers are not homeowners, though, and many doors are not the right door. A tenant who swaps the landlord's lock is doing something different from a homeowner doing the same thing. A mortise door won't accept a bored deadbolt without new preparation, and a heavy door may be thicker than the tailpiece allows.

The screwdriver is the easy part. Knowing whether you are allowed to make the change, and whether your door can take it without being cut, is the part a quick DIY video doesn't cover.

“Renters can't install smart locks”

General renter guides often say a tenant needs the landlord's permission for any lock change and leave it there. In New York that is incomplete. Multiple Dwelling Law § 51-c gives tenants in multiple dwellings the right to add their own lock, within a three-inch circumference limit, provided they give the landlord a duplicate key on request.

The right is to an additional lock, not to remove the owner's. That distinction is why a retrofit unit over the landlord's existing deadbolt, which leaves the outside and the key unchanged, is such a good fit for renters here.

The honest summary for a New York renter is: you can usually add keyless convenience; you usually shouldn't remove the owner's hardware; and the landlord keeps a way in.

“Smart locks fit any standard door”

Manufacturers' compatibility checkers assume a bored cylindrical deadbolt with a standard backset in a door of standard thickness. August's own page is explicit that its retrofit locks are compatible only with single-cylinder deadbolts and that some models need extra clearance.

A large part of New York's pre-war stock uses mortise locks, and a community thread that began with a New Yorker's question about smart locks for metal brownstone doors with mortise locks has run for more than a decade without a simple drop-in answer.

There are good smart options for mortise doors, but they are chosen per door. Measure first, buy second.

“Going fully keyless is more secure”

Removing the key removes one attack, picking, and adds others: dead batteries, lost phones, deleted admin accounts and cloud outages. That trade can be worth it in a house. In a New York apartment building it runs into rules.

Owners of multiple dwellings may not require tenants to use a smart access system to get into their own units under the Tenant Data Privacy Act, and co-op proprietary leases usually require a duplicate key to be held by the building. A fully keyless unit door can put a landlord or a shareholder on the wrong side of either.

The better design in this city is a smart lock with a mechanical override, a key lodged where the law or the lease expects one, and smart features layered on top.

“Matter makes every smart lock work with everything”

Matter is a real improvement: a lock certified for it can be shared across several ecosystems, and one manufacturer's guide says its lock can join up to five at once. But a Matter-over-Thread lock needs a Thread border router, and Yale's own setup guide says the router must be the same brand as the app you plan to use.

In a concrete building the border router also has to be close enough to the door to hold the Thread connection, which may mean a smart speaker or hub near the entrance rather than in the living room.

So before a Matter lock goes on your door, the question we ask is not which lock is newest but which app runs your home today and whether a compatible hub can live within reach of the entrance.

“A landlord can just change the code when a tenant leaves”

Property-management software makes deleting a credential a one-click job, and guides for landlords treat it as routine turnover. Mechanically it is. Legally, in New York City, the timing matters.

Administrative Code § 26-521 makes it unlawful to change or disable the entrance-door lock of an occupant of thirty days or more without supplying a key, outside a court warrant or vacate order; violations are a class A misdemeanour with civil penalties of $1,000 to $10,000 each. Deleting a code early is the digital version of changing the lock.

We set systems up so access can be removed in one step on the day possession lawfully returns, and we recommend a written log of every credential issued and removed.

Smart Lock Installation Cost in NYC

We publish what we have actually priced, and we say plainly where a job is quoted at the walkthrough instead. Building-door work — keypads, fob readers and electric strikes — is already priced on our access-control and door-buzzer pages, so those figures appear below with their scope. A smart lock on an individual apartment door has no published AESS price yet, because the door decides the work: a retrofit on a standard deadbolt and a mortise-format lock in a heavy pre-war door are very different jobs. Those are quoted flat, in writing, after a free walkthrough, and the quote is what you pay.

The single-door entry figure by borough

Our published single-door keypad or fob-reader figure is set at the Brooklyn base. Across the five boroughs we apply the same area multipliers we use on every service: Brooklyn and the Bronx at 1.00, Queens at 1.05, Staten Island at 1.10 and Manhattan at 1.25.

What moves an apartment-door quote

• Lock format: a retrofit over an existing single-cylinder deadbolt is the lightest job; a full smart deadbolt swap is next; a mortise-format lock or a change on a heavy steel or fire-rated door is the most involved.
• Door condition: old bores, filled holes, worn strikes and frames that have moved all add alignment work so the door self-closes and the bolt throws cleanly.
• Connectivity: a bridge or border router, and getting a usable signal to a door at the end of a concrete hallway.
• Credentials: one household's codes are quick; enrolling codes, fobs and phones for every unit of a small building takes longer and is worth doing properly.
• Building logistics: certificate of insurance, contractor hours, and walk-up access.

National cost guides for comparison. Fixr's national figure, updated January 2025, puts smart lock installation at $250–$400 with a $300 average and handyman labour at $50–$100 an hour. That is national third-party data, not an AESS price, and it assumes an ordinary door in a house.

Full terms for every job — deposit, warranty and late fees — are in the service agreement you sign before work starts; the short version is in the FAQ below.

How Smart Lock Jobs Differ Borough by Borough

A retrofit lock in Riverdale and one in Red Hook are the same box. The buildings, tenancies and doors around them are what change the job. As each borough gets its own page the detail will live there; for now each link below opens our quote form.

Manhattan smart lock installation

Manhattan is a borough of managed buildings: doorman co-ops, rental towers, pre-war elevator buildings and walk-ups, almost all with a managing agent between the occupant and the door. That makes paperwork the first step — a certificate of insurance, contractor hours and often a question to the board about the unit door. Doors in the pre-war stock of the Upper West Side, Morningside Heights and Washington Heights are frequently heavy with mortise locks; post-war towers bring concrete corridors and the Wi-Fi questions that come with them. Lobby keyless work here is priced at the 1.25 multiplier, so the single-door figure becomes $1,875–$3,125.

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is where small landlords live with their tenants. Brownstones and row houses in Park Slope, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and Bay Ridge are often owner-occupied with one to four rental units, a shared stoop door and original hardware. That makes per-unit credentials, a keyless street door and a clean turnover routine the common request. Brooklyn also has large rental complexes, like the Brownsville towers where tenants contested facial-recognition entry, where owners are thinking hard about the Tenant Data Privacy Act. Building-door work is at the 1.00 base.

Queens

Queens mixes the garden co-ops of Jackson Heights, Forest Hills and Kew Gardens with the high-rises of Long Island City and the two-family houses that fill much of the borough. Co-op jobs bring board rules and duplicate-key clauses; two-family houses bring an owner who wants to manage the tenant's door, the shared entrance and a basement door from one phone. Single-door keyless entry is priced at 1.05, or $1,575–$2,625.

The Bronx

The Bronx has some of the city's biggest residential complexes, including Co-op City's 35 towers, along with the pre-war apartment buildings of the Grand Concourse and houses in Riverdale and Throgs Neck. Concrete and block walls are common, so bridge and border-router placement is often the decisive part of an apartment install. Building-door keyless work is at the 1.00 base.

Staten Island

Staten Island's smart-lock work is weighted toward one- and two-family houses, where the owner controls the door and the rules are simpler, plus the apartment buildings of the North Shore around St. George, where they are not. Two-family owners often want a tenant's door and a shared side entrance on separate codes. Single-door keyless entry is priced at 1.10, or $1,650–$2,750.

Managing Codes, Fobs and Phones Across Several Units

For an owner of a two- to twenty-unit building, the hardware is the easy part. The routine around it is what keeps you out of trouble. These are the practices we set up with small landlords in brownstones, walk-ups and two-family houses across the city.

Keep the duty that the Housing Maintenance Code puts on you in view while you modernise. Section 27-2043 says the owner provides the key lock on each unit entrance door and at least one key, and in class A buildings a heavy-duty latch set, a heavy-duty deadbolt operable by key from outside and by thumb-turn inside, and a chain door guard. Section 27-2041 requires a peephole. A smart lock can sit alongside that equipment or replace the deadbolt with a smart deadbolt that keeps a keyed cylinder; it should not leave a class A unit without the hardware the code lists.

For the building entrance, owners of class A buildings with eight or more units are generally expected to provide an intercom with two-way communication and remote door release under the Multiple Dwelling Law. A keypad or fob reader added to the street door should work alongside that, not replace the ability of a tenant to buzz a visitor in. Our intercom repair crews in NYC can bring an old system back into service while the keyless upgrade is planned.

Field Notes on New York Apartment Doors

Smart Lock Installation Across New York

You are on the five-borough page. Separate pages for Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island are on the way; for now each borough link opens our quote form, and the installers who would serve it already work there. Long Island and the Hudson Valley each have a smart lock hub of their own, written for suburban houses and county rules rather than city apartment buildings.

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