Electrician in Bayonne, NJ
Malfettone Electric is a licensed electrician serving Bayonne, NJ — family-owned since 1977 and holding New Jersey Electrical Contractor License #17130. We work Bergen Point, the Broadway corridor and uptown Bayonne, upgrading 60-amp fuse boxes and 100-amp panels, installing driveway EV chargers, and pulling every permit through the Bayonne Construction Office. Free virtual consultations, usually within a day or two.
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The three jobs we do most in Bayonne
We do the full range of residential and commercial electrical work here — see the full Hudson County service list — but these three account for most of what Bayonne homeowners and landlords call about.
What Bayonne homes are actually wired like
Bayonne is a peninsula of older single-family and two-family homes, most of them built before 1960 and a great many still on their original service. In the blocks between Broadway and Avenue C we still find live 60-amp fuse boxes regularly — they cannot be adapted to modern breakers, and most New Jersey insurers now require replacement outright. Federal Pacific panels show up in the 1960s and 1970s updates. Bergen Point at the southern tip has the oldest housing in the city, with correspondingly old branch wiring. The upside, compared with Hoboken or Jersey City, is access: Bayonne homes are mostly detached or semi-detached with open service entrances and their own service drop, which is why panel upgrades here run cheaper and finish faster than anywhere else in the county.
nearly 50 years of this exact housing stock is why we can quote Bayonne work accurately from photos instead of guessing on site. See the Hudson County overview for how the county compares town to town.
Bayonne Construction Office, City Hall, 630 Avenue C
Bayonne processes electrical permits through the Construction Office at City Hall on Avenue C. It is a paper-based process but an efficient one — permits are often issued within a week and generally within 5–10 business days, and inspections are typically scheduled within 3–5 business days of our request. Fees run $150–$275 and are included in our quoted price.
PSE&G in Bayonne
Bayonne is PSE&G territory, with roughly 2–3 weeks of scheduling for the disconnect and reconnect once the permit is issued. Because Bayonne has more single-family homes with open access to the service entrance and far fewer shared service drops than Hoboken or Jersey City, the whole job usually lands at 3–5 weeks from first call to inspected upgrade — the fastest in Hudson County.
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Electrician FAQs — Bayonne, NJ
Third-generation owner of Malfettone Electric, family-owned in Jersey City since 1977. Michael has personally run panel upgrades, rewires and service changes across Bayonne and the rest of Hudson County— filing the permits, submitting the PSE&G applications, and meeting the inspectors himself. The prices and timelines on this page come from our own recent Bayonne jobs.
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Need an electrician in Bayonne?
Send us photos or hop on a short video call — most Bayonne jobs can be quoted without a truck roll. Written price, permit included, nearly 50 years of doing this work here.