New York Metro · Long Island City, New York
Smart Home, Lighting & AV in Long Island City.
Glass towers on the East River, converted factories with concrete ceilings, and a skyline view that faces west all afternoon. Long Island City is where our New York office is, and where a service call is a short walk, not a bridge.
Long Island City, Specifically
New Towers, Old Lofts, One Waterfront.
Long Island City changed in a generation. The 2001 rezoning replaced light-manufacturing zones along Jackson Avenue with dense mixed-use districts, and the waterfront filled with residential towers; Skyline Tower, finished in 2021, is now the tallest building in Queens.
New towers bring their own rules: a condo board, a building network, an amenity floor, and a facade the developer chose. Loft conversions bring concrete ceilings and exposed runs. And the waterfront brings water, which Hurricane Sandy put into Hunters Point lobbies in 2012. We design for all three.
01 · Condos
Inside the Building's Rules
A new condo tower has a managing agent, a building network, and rules for contractors and deliveries. We work through the managing agent, keep our system independent of the building's network, and install inside the hours the building allows.
02 · Lofts
Concrete Ceilings, Exposed Runs
In a converted warehouse there is no ceiling void to hide a cable. We plan surface raceway that reads as architecture, use wireless Lutron controls where a wall cannot be opened, and put the rack where it can breathe and be serviced.
03 · Water
Equipment Above the Flood
Parts of Hunters Point are mapped as high flood risk and flooded in Sandy. We keep racks and power equipment above the cellar, add battery backup to the network and control system, and set up remote monitoring so a storm is not a surprise.
At a Glance
Long Island City in brief.
- Rezoning
- In 2001 the city created a special mixed-use district in Long Island City, replacing low-density light-manufacturing zones along Jackson Avenue with higher-density commercial and residential zoning.
- Skyline
- Skyline Tower at 3 Court Square topped out in October 2019, passing One Court Square as the tallest building in Queens, and was completed in July 2021.
- Flood risk
- Many blocks of Hunters Point lie in the city's evacuation Zone A and took significant flood damage in Hurricane Sandy in 2012; the first Hunters Point South buildings were planned 10 feet above the floodplain.
- Internet
- Verizon Fios fiber serves much of New York City, with Spectrum as the alternative; we confirm service at the address before designing the network.
Sources: NYC Department of City Planning, Long Island City mixed-use rezoning; Skyline Tower (Queens) (Wikipedia); DNAinfo, Hunters Point residents clean up after Sandy; DNAinfo, first waterfront development after Sandy; Verizon, Fios in New York City.
What We Install and Service
Every System. One Keypad.
Lighting & Shades
Lutron HomeWorks, Ketra and Rania light, Palladiom keypads, and shades that disappear into the ceiling.
Lighting →Whole-Home Control
Crestron and Lutron on one set of keypads and touchscreens, programmed the same way in every house you own.
Residential →Cinema & Music
Dedicated theaters, media rooms, and music in every room without a speaker in sight.
Residential →Network
Enterprise Wi-Fi and fiber sized for a large house, guest houses, and the far end of the lawn.
Networking →Security & Gate
Cameras, access control, gate intercom, and an alarm that a UL-listed central station answers.
Security →Outdoors
Landscape lighting and outdoor sound on one buried infrastructure, on the same keypad as the house.
Outdoor →Upgrades
Older Crestron and Lutron systems brought current, reusing the wiring already in the walls wherever possible.
Upgrade paths →Support
Monitoring, remote fixes, and priority response under one plan.
Cave Watch →Questions From Long Island City
Long Island City, Answered
Is there a Lutron and Crestron dealer in Long Island City?+–
Yes. Cave Group's New York office is in Long Island City. We are a Crestron Elite Gold Partner and Lutron Gold Dealer, and we design, install, and service lighting control, shades, cinema, audio, networking, and security for condos, lofts, and offices in the neighborhood.
Can you install in a new condo tower without touching the building's systems?+–
Yes. We coordinate with the managing agent, follow the building's contractor rules and hours, and keep our network and control system independent of the building's own, so the apartment works no matter what happens to the amenity network downstairs.
How do you protect a system in a flood-risk building?+–
We keep racks, power supplies, and batteries above the cellar and the lobby, add battery backup to the network and control processor, and monitor the system remotely, so we know about an outage before you do. Where the building has a flood plan, we design around it.
Do you also do offices and conference rooms in LIC?+–
Yes. Our commercial work covers conference rooms, offices, and retail, with Crestron, Lutron, and UniFi as the core. The same team that installs it supports it, from the office down the street.
Do you support the system after installation?+–
We do. Cave Watch is our support program: round-the-clock remote monitoring of the network, control system, audio-video, and lighting, remote fixes and software updates, priority response, and an annual health check. Central-station alarm monitoring and live guard video monitoring can be added to the same plan.
Nearby
Other New York areas we serve.
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Walk the Home With Us.
Bring the drawings if it is on paper, or the list of what no longer works if it is built. We will tell you what we would do, in what order, what it would take, and what the board will want to see.
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