Smart Home, Lighting & AV in Queens.

Cave Group does. Our New York office is in Long Island City, in the borough, and we are a Crestron Elite Gold Partner and Lutron Gold Dealer. We design, install, and service lighting control, shades, cinema, audio, networking, and security for houses in Douglaston, Malba, Jamaica Estates, Forest Hills Gardens, Bayside, and the neighborhoods around them.

If the street can see them, yes. Douglas Manor is a city historic district, so exterior work there goes to the Landmarks Preservation Commission; Forest Hills Gardens runs its own architectural approval of exterior changes; Jamaica Estates' association enforces its R1-2 zoning. We draw the exterior devices, cameras, fixtures, intercom, and gate hardware, so that the review is of a plan rather than a surprise, and we keep the rest inside.

Yes, and it should. Landscape lighting, outdoor audio, cameras, and the gate intercom run on buried conduit we plan before the driveway and the planting go in, and they join the same Lutron and Crestron system as the rooms inside, so one keypad or one phone handles all of it. It is far easier to do while the site work is open than after the garden is finished.

Yes. In New York City a permanent generator needs Department of Buildings electrical and gas permits, has to respect setbacks, and in a mapped flood zone must sit above the design flood elevation. We size it for the rack, the network, and the house, choose a location that passes, and coordinate the filing with the licensed electrician and plumber.

Verizon Fios fiber reaches most of Queens, with Spectrum as the alternative, but what is available at a particular house depends on the street. We confirm service at the address, and on larger properties we design for two connections with automatic failover, so a single outage does not take the house offline.