Smart Home, Lighting & AV in Brooklyn.

Cave Group does. We are a Crestron Elite Gold Partner and Lutron Gold Dealer with an office in Long Island City, across the East River, and we design, install, and service lighting control, shades, cinema, audio, networking, and security for brownstones, townhouses, and lofts in Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and DUMBO.

By planning the vertical runs once. A riser from the cellar to the roof, in a closet stack or a chase the architect agrees to, carries network, control, and audio to every floor; the horizontal runs ride the renovation where walls are open. Where they are not, Lutron's wireless dimmers and keypads replace the existing switches and the plaster stays closed.

In a historic district, yes, if it is visible from the street: the Landmarks Preservation Commission regulates the facade, the stoop, the doors, and the roofline, and an exterior device needs a permit. We draw the device, its size, and its location so the filing is straightforward, and we keep everything else inside, where the Commission has no jurisdiction.

Yes, and the paperwork comes first. The building's alteration agreement names the licensed trades, the insurance that must cover the building, and the hours in which work may happen. We produce the technology drawings and the contractor documents the board's architect reviews, and we schedule inside the hours the building allows.

Verizon Fios fiber reaches much of the borough, including Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights, with Spectrum as the alternative. In an older brownstone the condition of the wiring already in the house can matter more than the carrier, so we check the drop and the path to the rack before we commit to a design.