Electrician in Jersey City, NJ
Malfettone Electric is a licensed electrician based in Jersey City, NJ, family-owned since 1977 and holding New Jersey Electrical Contractor License #17130. We work every Jersey City neighborhood — Downtown, The Heights, Journal Square, Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville — pulling permits through the city's online portal and coordinating PSE&G ourselves. Free virtual consultations, usually booked same or next day.
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The three jobs we do most in Jersey City
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 Jersey City homeowners and landlords call about.
What Jersey City homes are actually wired like
Jersey City is a city of halves, electrically. Downtown, Hamilton Park and Paulus Hook are pre-war brownstones and rowhomes sitting next to glass waterfront towers. The Heights is the oldest residential hillside in the city — narrow rowhomes and stacked two-families, most built before 1940, where we still find knob-and-tube, cloth-insulated branch wiring and live 60-amp fuse boxes. Journal Square mixes pre-war apartment buildings along Kennedy Boulevard with new high-rise construction. Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville are largely single- and two-family homes from the 1900s–1950s, where the panel is usually the original 100A or a 1960s Federal Pacific. Across all of it, the recurring jobs are the same: undersized service, hazard-brand panels, and a shared or crowded service entrance that makes the upgrade a coordination problem as much as an electrical one.
nearly 50 years of this exact housing stock is why we can quote Jersey City work accurately from photos instead of guessing on site. See the Hudson County overview for how the county compares town to town.
Jersey City Division of Building & Construction (online permit portal)
Jersey City runs an online permit portal, which is the fastest process in Hudson County — an electrical permit for a panel upgrade or new service is typically issued in 3–5 business days, and final inspections are usually scheduled within 3–5 business days of our request. Permit fees for typical residential work run $200–$350 and are included in our quoted price. We file everything; you never touch the portal.
PSE&G in Jersey City
Jersey City is PSE&G territory. Any service change means PSE&G pulls the meter before the swap and reconnects afterward, currently 2–4 weeks of scheduling after the permit is issued — longer in the busy spring and fall. Older rowhomes in The Heights, Journal Square and Bergen-Lafayette sometimes share a service drop with the neighbouring property; if PSE&G needs to run a separate drop, we tell you at the estimate rather than halfway through.
More Jersey City electrical detail
Electrician FAQs — Jersey City, 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 Jersey City 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 Jersey City jobs.
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Need an electrician in Jersey City?
Send us photos or hop on a short video call — most Jersey City jobs can be quoted without a truck roll. Written price, permit included, nearly 50 years of doing this work here.