Smart Lock
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Tribeca

Smart Lock Jammed Somewhere Between Canal and Chambers?

A keypad on a heavy steel loft door that whirs but leaves the bolt short of the strike because the closer slams the door half an inch off line; a Wi-Fi lock that loses its connection whenever the router at the far end of a hundred-foot loft restarts; a dog walker’s code that works on the street door but not upstairs; a restaurant’s back-door keypad clouded by kitchen grease until half the buttons stop registering. Once a technician is at the door, most power, pairing, alignment and closer faults are fixed in one to two hours, and we book them into the next free 2-hour window your building allows. If the problem is the building’s own electric strike rather than your lock, a failed strike repair is $369–$606 at the Manhattan rate. Call (929) 560-0737 and say it is a lock fault, or see our Manhattan intercom repair service if the street panel is what has stopped releasing.

Smart Lock Installation for Tribeca’s Architecture

Tribeca buildings fall into a few families, and naming the family comes before naming a product: it tells us where the hardware may sit, which key has to stay in service, what fire rating is in play and who must sign off.

How we approach each type of door

Steel loft entry doors. We start at the hinge edge. The door’s label — usually on the edge just below the top hinge or on the top of the door — tells us the manufacturer, the testing laboratory and the rating; a matching label on the frame does the same for the frame. NFPA’s own guidance says labels should not be removed, defaced or made illegible while the door is in service, and that where a label has been lost the rating can be verified “through other means acceptable to the AHJ”, such as an inspection or certification service. Once we know what the door is, we choose a lock that uses the bore and edge preparation already in it, or a hardware family listed for that kind of door, rather than drilling a new pattern into a labelled leaf. Many of these doors are older metal-clad “kalamein” types; Fire Engineering notes that such doors were made with gypsum cores and that older ones sometimes had asbestos-cement cores, which is another reason not to cut into them casually.

Closers and heavy leaves. A steel loft door can weigh far more than a hollow apartment door, and the closer that brings it home is set to overcome stair-shaft air pressure as well. That is exactly what the self-closing rule wants, but it is hard on a motorised bolt: if the door arrives a fraction off line, the bolt hits the strike lip, reports a jam and runs the batteries flat. We adjust the closer’s latch speed so the door settles rather than slams, re-align the strike, and test the bolt throw dozens of times from different opening angles before the lock is handed over.

Full-floor lofts. When the elevator opens directly into the home, the elevator’s key switch is doing the job a front-door lock does elsewhere, and it belongs to the building. The household’s smart lock usually goes on the door to the fire stair, which is the other way in. That door is governed by stair rules, so we treat it with care: free exit into the stair in one motion, no keyed thumb-turn on the inside, and any credential on the stair side planned with the building’s managing agent and its fire-safety arrangements in mind.

Condo unit doors. These are the most straightforward doors in Tribeca to fit and the most procedural to schedule. Solid or steel doors with standard bored holes take a smart deadbolt cleanly; the work is in the alteration agreement, the insurance certificate, the building’s contractor hours and the freight elevator booking, and in deciding whether the lock should be enrolled in anything the building runs. We keep the building’s key working on the lock if the condo’s rules require it.

Historic houses. On the Harrison Street houses and similar early buildings, the exterior of the door is the protected part. Smart hardware goes on the inside face, on an interior retrofit that turns an existing single-cylinder deadbolt, or on a secondary door, so that nothing visible from the street changes. Old mortise locks get a mortise-format solution rather than a bored deadbolt forced into a door that was never drilled for one.

Loft owners often add a view of the landing. Our doorbell camera installation in Manhattan can put a discreet camera at the stair door or the maisonette entrance, so you can see who is there before unlocking from your phone.

Smart Lock Installation in Tribeca: Questions Answered

Each question below began at a real Tribeca door type — a labelled steel loft door, a full floor reached by keyed elevator, a staffed condo, a renovation, or a gallery, showroom or kitchen at street level. Questions every borough shares, such as renters’ rights, co-op key rules, building entry apps and office suites, live on our Manhattan smart lock installation page and the citywide guide beyond it. Booking, coverage and cost sit in the FAQ further down. None of this is legal advice.

Labelled steel loft doors

The label on our loft door’s edge is buried under paint — how do you find out what rating the door carries before choosing a lock?

We look for it first, carefully. Door labels are usually metal plates or embossed marks on the hinge edge just below the top hinge or on the top edge of the leaf, and frame labels are in the frame’s hinge jamb. A single thin coat often leaves the raised lettering readable with a raking light; decades of coats do not. NFPA’s guidance is that labels should not be removed, defaced or made illegible while the door is in service, that a painted label can be acceptable if it is still readily visible, and that where a label is gone or unreadable the rating can be verified “through other means acceptable to the AHJ”, such as an inspection or certification service that provides documentation.

In practice that gives three outcomes. If the label is legible, we record the manufacturer, laboratory and rating and choose hardware to suit. If it is buried, we ask the managing agent whether the building holds door schedules or certification records from the conversion, which many loft condos do. If nobody can say, we treat the door as rated, choose a lock that uses the existing preparation and is suitable for rated doors, and tell you plainly that confirming the rating is a job for a door-certification service, not a lock installer. What we will not do is strip a label to read it or drill a new pattern into a door whose rating nobody knows.

Our building’s architect says the new loft entry door must stay “labelled” — does that narrow which smart locks we can buy?

Yes, and it is better to know before buying than after. A labelled door is tested and listed as an assembly with particular hardware preparations, and the latching hardware on it is expected to be suitable for fire-door use. Many consumer smart deadbolts are designed for ordinary residential doors and do not advertise any fire listing; makers also publish narrow door-thickness ranges — Schlage lists 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inches for its Encode deadbolts and Yale lists 1-3/8 to 2-1/4 inches for the Assure Lock 2 — which a heavy loft door may not meet. So the box on the shelf is not automatically the right lock for the door.

What usually works is one of three routes. A smart lock or retrofit that turns an existing deadbolt already fitted in the door’s factory preparation, so no new holes are cut. An electrified mortise or cylindrical lock from a commercial range whose fire-door suitability the architect can check against the door’s listing, controlled by a keypad or reader. Or, for a new door still being ordered, a door and frame specified from the start with the lock’s preparation done at the factory. We send the architect the exact model, its cut sheet and the preparation it needs, so the decision is made on paper rather than with a drill.

Our building was legalised under the Loft Law — does its interim multiple dwelling past change who decides what goes on our door?

It can. The city’s Loft Board explains that Article 7-C of the Multiple Dwelling Law created a class of buildings called interim multiple dwellings and required their owners to bring former commercial lofts up to the Building Code’s standards for homes; the Board tracks the conversion, registers the buildings and settles disputes between landlords and tenants along the way. Once legalised, covered units generally become rent-stabilised apartments.

For a lock, that history matters in two ways. If you are a protected loft tenant, your door is a rental apartment door like any other: you can add a lock of your own, the owner is entitled to a key, and the owner cannot make an app the only way in. If you own or manage the building, a lock project that changes doors, frames or fire-rated assemblies can intersect with legalisation work and the building’s certificate of occupancy, so it is worth checking the building’s Loft Board file and its architect’s drawings before replacing a door. Where the work is just a smart deadbolt in existing holes, the history rarely changes anything; where it is a new door or a new frame, we ask first.

Full floors, keyed elevators and the fire stair

The fire stair doors in our loft building lock behind us on every floor — is that allowed, and could a keypad let residents back in?

Sometimes it is allowed, and the rules are specific. The NYC Building Code’s section on stairway doors starts from the principle that interior stair doors “shall be openable from both sides without the use of a key or special knowledge or effort.” Among its exceptions, in stairways serving not more than four stories the doors may be locked from the stair side, provided they open from the egress side and can be unlocked all at once, without unlatching, by a signal from the fire command centre or from a single location just inside the main entrance; another exception refers to the separate high-rise provisions. A stair door that simply locks behind you, in a building that does not fit an exception, is a question for the building’s managing agent and its fire-safety consultant, not for a keypad.

Where the building qualifies and the board wants residents to be able to re-enter floors from the stair, an electrified lock with a keypad or reader on the stair side can do it — but it has to be part of the building’s system, wired so the doors release together on the required signal, and approved by whoever is responsible for the building’s fire protection. That is a building project, not a unit upgrade, and we would quote it with the board. For your own floor, what we can do immediately is make sure your loft’s door to the stair opens freely in one motion from inside, so you are never trapped on your own landing.

When the keyed elevator is shut for inspection, how do we get into our full-floor loft — and should the smart lock plan cover that day?

It should, because that is the day the plan is tested. In a full-floor loft the elevator key usually does the work of a front-door lock, so when the elevator is taken out of service for its periodic inspection, a modernisation or a repair, the door from the fire stair becomes your only entrance. If that door has a key nobody has used in years, a sticky cylinder or a deadbolt that is only operable from inside, you find out on the landing with shopping bags.

We plan for it at the walkthrough. The stair door gets a lock you can open from the stair side — a keypad or fingerprint deadbolt, or a retrofit with a working key — so long as it remains openable from inside in one motion. Codes for the cleaner, the dog walker and family go on that lock as well as on any elevator arrangement the building offers, so nobody depends on the elevator key alone. And we ask the managing agent to tell residents the inspection dates, so you can check the stair door’s batteries the week before.

Staffed boutique condos

We’d prefer the front desk can’t see when we come and go — who actually reads a smart lock’s entry log in a staffed condo?

Whoever holds administrator rights on the lock’s account, and nobody else. A standalone smart lock keeps its own history of which code, phone or fingerprint opened the door and when, and that history lives in the household’s app and the maker’s cloud. The building’s front desk sees its own records — the lobby door, the package log, the visitor book — but it does not see inside your lock unless you enrol the lock in a building platform or give staff an account.

That gives you choices. If you want staff to be able to let in a plumber when you are away, you can give the building a single, named code that you can see being used and can cancel at any time, rather than administrator rights. If privacy matters more, keep every administrator inside the household and use time-limited codes for visitors, generated from your phone. We set up the account in the owner’s name, add a second administrator you trust, turn off any sharing you did not ask for, and write down on the handover sheet exactly who can see what.

Our condo’s ground-floor maisonette has its own street door and a door into the lobby — which should be smart, and whose rules cover each?

Usually both, under different rules. The street door is your private entrance but part of the building’s facade, so its exterior falls under the condo declaration and, if the building is in one of the historic districts, the Landmarks Preservation Commission; the inside face is generally yours to change. The lobby door is a unit door like any other in the building: it must close and latch on its own, it may carry a fire label, and the managing agent will want to approve hardware on the corridor side.

The practical plan is to keep the street side of the maisonette door looking exactly as it does, fit the smart part inside or choose a discreet keypad deadbolt only where the board and, if relevant, the Commission accept it, and put a matching lock on the lobby door so one set of family codes works on both. Deliveries can then be told to use the lobby, with the street door kept for the household. We give each door its own auto-lock delay — shorter on the street door — and an alert if either is left unlocked overnight.

Renovations and new doors

Our architect is specifying a new entry door for the loft renovation — what should the door order include so a smart lock fits without cutting on site?

Three things, decided before the order goes in. First, the lock itself, named by model, so the door and frame can be prepared at the factory for exactly that body — bored for a smart deadbolt, mortised for an electrified mortise lock, or both. Second, the door thickness and backset that lock supports, because a handsome 2-1/4-inch door is no use if the lock you want is listed for 1-3/4. Third, if the lock is powered rather than battery-run, a path for the low-voltage cable through the hinge side — an electrified hinge or a concealed transfer — so wires never have to be run across a labelled door after it is hung.

The renovation also decides the closer, the strike and the threshold, and each affects the lock. A closer specified for the door’s weight and the stair pressure, a strike prepared for the deadbolt’s throw, and a threshold that does not drag will let a motorised bolt work for years on its first set of settings. We are happy to join a call with the architect and contractor, send the lock’s cut sheet and preparation drawing, and come back after the door is hung to fit and programme the lock, so the door never has to be taken down again.

Our loft door is far thicker than a standard apartment door — will an off-the-shelf smart lock fit it?

Possibly not, and the published ranges are the place to start. Lock makers state the door thicknesses their products support: Schlage gives 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inches for its Encode deadbolts and 1-3/8 to 2 inches for its Arrive line’s preparation, and Yale gives 1-3/8 to 2-1/4 inches for the Assure Lock 2. Some makers sell thick-door kits with longer spindles and screws for a modest extra stretch; beyond that, a bored residential deadbolt is the wrong tool.

For genuinely thick or non-standard loft doors there are better routes than forcing it. An interior retrofit that turns an existing deadbolt does not care about door thickness, because it sits on the inside thumb-turn. A commercial electrified mortise lock comes in versions made for heavy doors and is driven by a separate keypad or reader. And where the existing lock is an old mortise body, a mortise-format smart conversion can work within the pocket already cut. We measure thickness, backset, bolt throw and the condition of the existing preparation at the walkthrough, then recommend the option that fits without new cuts.

Galleries, showrooms and kitchens on the ground floor

Our restaurant’s cellar is reached through steel doors in the sidewalk — can they be locked electronically on a schedule?

The cellar can be, but usually not at the sidewalk doors themselves. Sidewalk cellar doors are heavy steel leaves set in the pavement, and the city’s rules are about safety: NYC 311 explains that the Department of Transportation investigates cellar doors left open and unprotected, and that they may be open during a delivery as long as someone is in the area to guard against a fall. They are normally secured from below with a bar or hasp, and an electronic lock on the leaves themselves would have to survive foot traffic, water and salt in a place that is hard to service.

What works better is to lock what lies beneath. The door from the cellar into the kitchen or the interior stair can take a keypad or reader with a schedule — open during the morning delivery window, locked otherwise — and a log that shows which staff code opened it. The sidewalk doors stay secured from inside with their bar, and a door contact can tell the manager’s phone if they are opened outside delivery hours. That keeps the expensive stock locked on a schedule while leaving the sidewalk doors as simple and safe as the city expects.

Steam and grease coat our kitchen’s back door — which kinds of lock hardware hold up there?

Hardware built for commercial doors, mounted where the worst of it does not land. Consumer keypads with glossy touch surfaces cloud over with grease film and stop reading taps reliably, and fingerprint readers struggle with wet or floury hands; battery compartments on the inside face collect condensation if the door sits next to a dishwasher or a steam table. On a busy kitchen door, those small failures turn into a door propped open with a bucket.

We favour a reader or keypad with physical buttons or a sealed face, mounted on the wall or frame beside the door rather than on the leaf, controlling an electric strike or electrified lever that is rated for commercial use. Staff use cards, fobs or codes, each person with their own credential so access ends the day someone leaves. Inside, a push bar or lever gives instant exit. The strike and reader can be wiped down with the rest of the kitchen, and nothing important depends on a battery cover that someone has to open with greasy fingers.

Our showroom takes deliveries through a loading bay behind historic iron shutters — where does an electronic lock belong?

Behind the shutters, on a door of its own. The Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Tribeca West designation report describes folding iron shutters and the wood doors that historically filled loading bays as part of what gives the district its character, and loading platforms over stepped vaults as one of its most common warehouse features. If your bay still has those elements, they are part of the protected facade, and a reader screwed into a cast-iron pier or a strike cut into an old shutter is the wrong answer.

In most showrooms the bay already has an inner door or a modern infill behind the historic shutters, and that is where the electronic lock goes: an electric strike or electrified lever on the inner door, a reader just inside the shutters or on the interior wall, and a delivery code that works only during the booked window. The shutters themselves are opened and closed by staff as they always were. If an exterior change is genuinely needed, we prepare the product details and photographs for your architect’s application to the Commission before anything is drilled.

Art handlers deliver to our Walker Street gallery after hours — can they open the door without learning the staff code?

Yes, and they should never be given the staff code. Most smart locks and readers can issue a credential that works only on one date or within a set window — Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., say — and that expires on its own. The registrar sends it to the shipping company’s crew lead that afternoon; the crew opens the door; the gallery sees exactly when it was used; the code stops working at ten. The staff code, which opens the gallery every morning, never leaves the gallery.

We usually set galleries up with three tiers: staff credentials that follow working hours, an administrator tier for the director and registrar, and one-off windows for shippers, installers and couriers. The storage or viewing room gets its own lock with a shorter user list. If the front door is glass with nothing to cut, the reader sits inside the glass and the lock is chosen for the frame; if the door is a heavy steel delivery door off a side street, the lock is chosen for its label. Either way, the handlers’ visit leaves a record your insurer or lender can read.

What AI Gets Wrong About Smart Lock Installation in Tribeca

A note on sources. Google’s AI Overview could not be displayed by the tools used to research this page, so none of the headings below is copied from it. Instead each one paraphrases a line that a national cost guide, a manufacturer or a reviewer has published — the sort of statement answer engines pick up — and names that source before explaining how a Tribeca door changes the picture.

“A smart lock costs $250 to $400 to have installed”

That range comes from Fixr’s national cost guide, updated in January 2025, which puts the average around $300 with handyman labour at $50 to $100 an hour. It is a fair national figure for one bored deadbolt on a wooden house door, installed in a single visit with nobody else to consult.

A Tribeca loft door is rarely that job. Before a lock goes on, someone has to establish what the door is rated for, whether the closer will let a motor work, whether the managing agent needs a certificate and an alteration form, and whether the stair door needs the same treatment as the front. On a ground-floor gallery or restaurant the work is usually a reader and electric strike, which AESS publishes at $1,875 to $3,125 at the Manhattan rate.

The national number is not wrong; it describes a different door. If a quote for a labelled steel loft door starts from it, ask what it assumes about the label, the closer and the paperwork.

“Smart deadbolts fit standard doors”

Lock makers do say their deadbolts fit standard residential preparations, and they publish the details: backsets of 2-3/8 or 2-3/4 inches, a cross bore of 2-1/8 inches and door thicknesses such as 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inches for Schlage’s Encode or 1-3/8 to 2-1/4 inches for Yale’s Assure Lock 2.

Tribeca loft doors are frequently not standard residential doors. They may be thicker, metal-clad, mortised for a commercial lock body rather than bored, or labelled assemblies that should not be given a new pattern of holes. A keypad deadbolt that fits a townhouse door perfectly can be the wrong lock for a 1920s kalamein door at the top of a warehouse stair.

“Standard” is a set of measurements, not a promise. We measure thickness, backset, bore and bolt throw and read the label before naming a product.

“Your Wi-Fi lock talks straight to your home network”

Many locks do connect over Wi-Fi, and others reach it through a bridge. August’s support pages ask for its Connect bridge to sit within 10 to 15 feet of the lock and to see full Wi-Fi bars where it is plugged in; Schlage notes that its Wi-Fi deadbolts require a 2.4 GHz network.

A Tribeca loft can be a hundred feet from the elevator to the windows, with the router at the far end, brick party walls on two sides and a steel door at the entry. In a full-floor loft the door that matters may be the one to the stair, round a corner from everything. The signal at the door is often the weakest in the home.

We test signal strength at the door itself, place a bridge, access point or Thread border router where it is strong, and prove remote unlocking over mobile data before we leave.

“Going keyless means you never need a key again”

Product marketing often says exactly this, and for everyday use it is close to true: codes, phones and fingerprints replace the key on most days.

The NYC Building Code, though, describes the dwelling-unit door as having a heavy-duty deadbolt “operable by a key from the outside and a thumb-turn from the inside,” and condo and co-op rules frequently require the building’s key system to keep working. A key is also the fallback when batteries die during a long trip or a lock loses its pairing. On a stair door in a full-floor loft, the key may be the only thing that gets you home on elevator-inspection day.

So we keep a working key on every residential lock we fit, store it with a neighbour or the household’s second administrator, and treat “keyless” as the daily routine rather than the only way in.

“A smart lock works on any front door, including a fire door”

Reviewers rarely mention fire ratings at all, and some installation guides treat every door as a blank slate for a drill.

NFPA guidance on fire doors expects labels to remain legible and hardware to suit the listed assembly, and HPD inspects apartment and hallway doors for self-closing operation. In Tribeca’s converted lofts and newer condos, unit doors and stair doors are often rated. Cutting a new bore, removing a closer because it fights the motor, or fitting hardware that holds the door open would all undo what the door is there to do.

On a rated door we use the existing preparation or hardware suited to the assembly, keep the closer and adjust it, and tell you when a question belongs to a door-certification service rather than to us.

“Expect about six months from a set of batteries”

Schlage’s product pages promise up to six months from four AA cells in normal use for its Encode Wi-Fi deadbolts, and rival makers publish comparable or longer figures. For a household door opened a handful of times a day, that is a fair expectation.

A heavy loft door with a strong closer and a slightly misaligned strike makes the motor work harder on every throw. So does a stair door used by a dog walker, a cleaner and every delivery on elevator-outage week, and so does a lock fighting for a weak Wi-Fi signal at the far end of a long loft.

We align the strike so the bolt runs free, choose a radio that suits the distance, send low-battery alerts to two people, and suggest a calendar battery change on the busiest doors rather than waiting for the warning.

“Pair your lock with an alarm subscription for complete security”

Alarm companies sell the lock as part of a package, and ADT, Ring and SimpliSafe each advertise it. The fine print matters: Ring’s help article on arming its alarm from a smart lock says the feature needs a subscription, works with compatible Z-Wave locks, and responds only to codes that were created inside the Ring app.

That suits some single-family homes. In a staffed condo, it can mean your door codes live in an alarm company’s app and depend on its plan, and the installer they send will not be dealing with your door’s fire label, your managing agent’s alteration rules or a gallery’s art-handler schedule. The Tribeca terrace and roof burglaries in the news also show that the front door is only one of the doors that matter.

If you want the lock and an alarm to work together, we choose hardware that keeps codes under your control first and link it second — and look at the terrace and roof doors at the same visit.

Smart Lock Installation Cost in Tribeca

A Tribeca address does not add a premium. Our published building and storefront work — reader or keypad doors with an electric strike, new strikes, strike repairs and programming visits — carries the same Manhattan figures as anywhere else in the borough: the Brooklyn base multiplied by 1.25, with both numbers shown below. Locks for a single home door are not on that list. An interior retrofit on a condo door and an electrified mortise lock on a labelled steel loft door share little beyond the word “lock”, so they are priced after a free walkthrough as a flat written figure that does not move on the day.

What changes a Tribeca quote

• The label. A legible label and an existing deadbolt make a retrofit quick; an unknown rating or a door with no usable preparation points to a commercial lock body and more time.
• Thickness and weight. A door outside a lock’s stated thickness range needs a different product, and a heavy leaf needs its closer and strike set up before any motor goes on.
• The second door. A full-floor loft’s stair door, a maisonette’s lobby door or a restaurant’s cellar door is a second lock and a second set of decisions, more efficient done on the same visit.
• Credentials. A couple’s codes take minutes; a gallery’s staff tiers, a restaurant’s shift patterns or a household with a nanny, a cleaner and a dog walker take longer and are worth getting right.

National guides and national brands

For comparison, Fixr’s national cost guide (January 2025) puts a smart lock installation at $250–$400, averaging about $300, with handyman labour at $50–$100 an hour. That is third-party data for an ordinary house door, not an AESS price. If you are weighing ADT, Ring or SimpliSafe against a local installer, ask whose app holds your lock codes, whether a monitoring plan is needed for the lock to work with the alarm, and whether their technician will read your door’s label, deal with your managing agent and look at the stair and terrace doors as well as the front.

You sign a written service agreement before any work starts; its payment and warranty terms are quoted word for word in the licence block at the foot of this page.

Reading a Tribeca Loft Door Before Anything Is Ordered

Every loft door in this neighbourhood has a history — freight door, replacement after a conversion, upgrade after a Loft Board inspection, new door in a renovation — and the lock has to fit that history. This is the survey we work through at the door.

The second doors people forget

Terrace and roof doors. The Tribeca burglaries reported by CBS New York came through terrace doors on penthouses, apparently left unlocked, and the 2019 Franklin Street case involved a second-floor patio door reached by ladder. A smart lock or a door contact on those doors does two useful things: it locks automatically after the door closes, and it tells you when it has been left open. It must still open from inside in one motion — a terrace door is somebody’s way out.

The stair door in a full-floor loft. Planned in the questions above: free exit into the stair, a credential on the stair side that works on elevator-inspection days, and nothing that conflicts with the building’s stair rules.

Tribeca Door and Building Terms, Explained

• Labelled door: a door tested and listed as fire-resistant, identified by a label from the testing laboratory on its hinge or top edge; the frame carries its own label.
• Kalamein door: a metal-clad door, common in older New York buildings, made with a core such as gypsum; older examples sometimes had asbestos-cement cores.
• Self-closing door: a door that swings shut and latches by itself after being opened, which HPD requires of apartment and hallway doors.
• Interim multiple dwelling (IMD): a former commercial loft building occupied as homes and brought under the Loft Law, Article 7-C of the Multiple Dwelling Law, while it is legalised.
• Keyed elevator: an elevator that stops at a floor, or opens into a home, only when a key or credential for that floor is used.
• Maisonette: a ground-floor or duplex unit in an apartment building with its own street entrance as well as access to the lobby.
• Loading platform: the raised platform in front of a warehouse loading bay, often built over vaults; the Tribeca West designation report calls it one of the district’s most common warehouse features.
• Sidewalk cellar door: a pair of steel doors set into the pavement over a stair or chute to the cellar, used for deliveries.
• Certificate of No Effect: a Landmarks Preservation Commission permit for work that needs a Buildings Department permit but does not change a building’s protected features.

Field Notes From Tribeca Landings

Smart Lock Installation Across Manhattan, New York City and Beyond

Tribeca is one neighbourhood page among many. Above it sits the Manhattan smart lock installation page for borough-wide topics such as doorman buildings, office suites and landmark storefronts, and above that the NYC smart lock installation hub for rules common to all five boroughs, from renters’ rights to co-op key policies and building entry platforms. Each county and region we serve has its own page too.

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