Electrician in Kearny, NJ
Malfettone Electric is a licensed electrician serving Kearny, NJ — family-owned since 1977 and holding New Jersey Electrical Contractor License #17130. We work Kearny's 1900s–1930s two-families off Kearny Avenue, the Arlington and Manor sections, and the industrial corridor along the Passaic, filing every permit with Kearny's Construction Code Enforcement Department and coordinating PSE&G ourselves.
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The three jobs we do most in Kearny
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 Kearny homeowners and landlords call about.
What Kearny homes are actually wired like
Kearny's residential core went up between roughly 1900 and 1930, and it is overwhelmingly two-family: a frame or brick house with one flat over another, a shared basement, and a service that was sized for two households running lamps and a radio. That is the single fact that drives most of our work here. We regularly find 60-amp fuse boxes and original 100-amp panels still carrying two units, Federal Pacific and Zinsco panels from the 1960s and 1970s updates, and cloth-insulated branch wiring behind plaster. The Arlington and Manor sections north of the Belleville Turnpike have more detached single-families from the 1920s–1950s, which are easier jobs with their own service drops. And then there is the Passaic Avenue and Schuyler Avenue industrial belt — warehouses, light manufacturing and fleet yards where the work is three-phase service, lighting retrofits and commercial code corrections rather than anything residential.
nearly 50 years of this exact housing stock is why we can quote Kearny work accurately from photos instead of guessing on site. See the Hudson County overview for how the county compares town to town.
Kearny Construction Code Enforcement Department, Town Hall, 402 Kearny Avenue
Kearny permits electrical work through the Construction Code Enforcement Department at Town Hall on Kearny Avenue, under the NJ Uniform Construction Code. It is a walk-in counter filing, and straightforward residential permits are commonly issued in about 5–7 business days — the department has 20 working days by statute, but panel and service permits rarely take that long. Fees for typical residential work run $150–$300 and are included in our quoted price. We file the application and meet the inspector; you never go to Town Hall.
PSE&G in Kearny
Kearny is PSE&G territory. Any service change means PSE&G pulls the meter before the swap and reconnects afterward, currently 1–3 weeks of scheduling once the permit is approved. The Kearny wrinkle is two-family metering: if the upgrade adds or separates a meter, PSE&G needs to set the equipment and that adds time. We identify the metering situation at the estimate so the timeline in your written quote is the real one.
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Electrician FAQs — Kearny, 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 Kearny 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 Kearny jobs.
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Need an electrician in Kearny?
Send us photos or hop on a short video call — most Kearny jobs can be quoted without a truck roll. Written price, permit included, nearly 50 years of doing this work here.