Key Duplication

A hardware-store key copy that sticks, needs jiggling, or works in the top lock but not the bottom isn't bad luck. It's a duplicate of a duplicate, cut on a machine nobody calibrates. SwiftLocksmith cuts keys on professionally calibrated equipment, and because we're a mobile service we come to you: your building, your office, your super's workshop, anywhere in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, seven days a week.

We duplicate the keys NYC actually runs on: standard house keys (Kwikset, Schlage, Yale and the rest), the mortise and rim keys found in older apartment buildings and brownstones, mailbox and padlock keys, office and cabinet keys, and high-security restricted keys such as Mul-T-Lock and Medeco, for those, we'll ask for proof you're authorized on the key system, which is exactly the protection you want your own restricted keys to have. We can also cut keys by code for many locks, and if all you have is a worn key that barely works, we can measure it and cut to factory spec rather than copying the wear.

Most duplications cost $30 to $85 per key depending on the blank, cut in minutes on arrival. Landlords, supers and property managers: we do batch cutting for building turnovers, and for whole-building key control it's worth asking us about keyed-alike and master-key setups at the same visit, often the smarter spend than another round of copies.