Locksmith New York City — 24/7 Licensed Service

Locksmith NYC — Licensed 24/7 Emergency Service

Sunny Locksmith is a licensed New York City locksmith company — NYC License #2096389-DCA — running mobile units across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens around the clock. Lockouts, rekeys, mortise repairs on pre-war doors, panic bars on storefronts, car keys cut and programmed at the curb: the photos and dates on our recent jobs page show what a typical week looks like for us. Call (917) 495-1990 and a licensed technician answers, day or night.

Residential Locksmith

From a first-apartment rekey to a full mortise lock replacement on a pre-war door, our residential work covers every kind of New York home — walk-ups, brownstones, co-ops and high-rises. We handle lock changes, deadbolt upgrades and home lockouts, and we work within building and co-op rules so new hardware goes in without a fight with the board.

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Commercial Locksmith

Storefronts, offices and buildings across the city rely on us for master key systems, panic bars and exit devices, high-security cylinders and lock changes when a space turns over. We coordinate with property managers and work around business hours so a lock job does not cost you a trading day.

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Automotive Locksmith

Lost your only car key, need a fob programmed, or dealing with an ignition that will not turn? We cut and program keys at the car for most makes and model years, so a lost key does not mean a tow truck.

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24/7 Emergency Lockouts

Locked out? Dispatch answers 24 hours a day, every day of the year, across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens — homes, businesses and cars. Every technician works under NYC License #2096389-DCA.

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NYC Building Types — We Have Worked on All of Them

The doors of this city are not interchangeable, and neither is the hardware. Brownstones and pre-war walk-ups have thick wood doors cut for mortise locks — like the front door we repaired at 134 Montague St in Brooklyn Heights in June — and narrow frames that only accept slim-profile deadbolts. Putting the wrong lock on an old door ruins both.

On the other end: in April we installed a Mul-T-Lock high-security system for an apartment client and upgraded the locks on a luxury residence with custom oversized doors. Those doors need extended backset latches and custom strike plates that a hardware store does not stock. We source them, and we match finishes — oil-rubbed bronze, satin nickel, polished brass — so the security upgrade does not fight the interior.

High-Rise & Luxury Condo Security

High-rise work is half locksmithing, half coordination. Most luxury buildings run a master key system, so we work with the superintendent to fit new locks into the building's existing keyway, and we install the self-closing hinges many buildings require on apartment entry doors.

Commercial buildings hide unusual hardware too. In April we changed a floor-mechanism lock near Grand Central Terminal — the kind of specialized fitting most locksmiths never see. When a building has odd hardware, the answer is a technician who has already handled it, not a catalog.

Building Types — Hardware Options

• ✔ Brownstones — Mortise Cylinder Calibration
• ✔ Industrial Lofts — Grade 1 Commercial Hardware
• ✔ Luxury Towers — Medeco M4 Options
• ✔ Pre-War Walk-Ups — Slim-Profile Deadbolts
• ✔ Co-ops & Condos — Building Management Hardware
• ✔ Storefronts — Commercial Panic Bar Systems

Smart Locks & Keypad Entry

In April we installed a new keypad system near Bedford Ave & N 7th St in Williamsburg — and rebuilt the door's panic bar in the same visit. Keypads solve a specific New York problem: keys that get copied. A tenant moves out, you delete their code. A dog walker starts, you add one. Nobody is standing at a hardware store duplicating anything.

That same month we did a from-scratch smart keypad deadbolt installation, including drilling and prepping a door that never had a deadbolt. The part people underestimate is mechanical: if the bolt binds against the strike plate, the motor strains and the lock dies young. We align the hardware so the bolt glides — that is the difference between a smart lock that lasts and one that fails in a year.

Biometric & Keypad Integration

We install fingerprint locks and touchscreen keypads, and we calibrate the sensors so they read reliably — a biometric lock that works four times out of five is worse than a key. Keypad deadbolts get temporary PIN codes for cleaners, contractors, and guests, revoked the moment they are no longer needed.

For remote control we set up the Wi-Fi bridge and connect the lock to your phone, and we troubleshoot existing smart locks that misbehave. Nine times out of ten a "broken" smart lock is a mechanical alignment problem wearing the motor down — we fix the alignment, not just the symptom.

Safes & Deadbolt Upgrades

We install floor safes, wall safes, and freestanding fireproof units for homes and businesses across the five boroughs — anchored into the structure, because an unanchored safe is a carrying case for a burglar. On the door side, swapping a builder-grade lock for a Grade 1 deadbolt is the single most cost-effective security upgrade an apartment can get.

Commercial Safe Servicing

Retail businesses that handle cash daily use drop safes — rotary hopper or front-loading depository units that let staff deposit cash without opening the main compartment. We anchor them into the floor and change combinations on dial and electronic safes whenever management changes hands.

Electronic safe keypads fail — batteries die, boards glitch. We carry override tools and replacement keypads to get a locked safe open, and we service the locking bolts and relock mechanisms so the door does not jam at the worst possible moment.