Commercial Locksmith in Paterson, NJ

Paterson's business districts

• Downtown. After a fire in 1902, downtown was rebuilt with Beaux-Arts buildings, many still standing and usually four to seven stories tall. A building that size can have a street entrance, a ground-floor shop door, upper-floor office doors and a rear or service door, each keyed separately and not always controlled by the same party.
• Neighborhood corridors. Shops line 21st Avenue in People's Park, Union Avenue in the Totowa Section and Market Street. A street-front shop has a customer entrance to secure, plus any rear or service door, and each needs its own plan for who holds keys.
• Bunker Hill. West of River Street and east of the Passaic River, Bunker Hill is mostly industrial. Gates, loading doors and padlocks can add to the number of keys a business has to track.

Exit doors and the city code

This is general information, not legal advice. Article III of Chapter 271 of Paterson's code applies to every building occupied by people, apart from those exempted under Section 271-8 (Section 271-25), and Section 271-27 requires every exit door to open easily from the inside. When a business adds security to a back door, choose hardware that still opens easily from the inside, such as a thumbturn deadbolt or an exit device.

Employee turnover and tenant changes

Keys leave with people. When an employee departs without returning a key, or nobody can say how many copies exist, rekeying the affected doors is often simpler than replacing hardware. In a shared downtown building, settle who controls which door before anything changes: an owner may keep the street entrance and stairwells while a ground-floor tenant keys only its own space.

• Keep a written list of who holds each key and when it was issued.
• Ask about restricted keyways, which limit who can have copies cut.
• Rekey when a key holder or tenant leaves, not after a problem.

What to include in a request

New Jersey Locksmith Pros takes service requests from homes, businesses and drivers in Paterson. Give the corridor or nearest cross streets, the number and type of doors (storefront, rear, overhead or gate), who owns the building, and whether you need rekeying, new hardware or a master key plan. See commercial locksmith service, lock rekeying or the Paterson page.