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Electrician in Union City, NJ

Malfettone Electric is a licensed electrician serving Union City, NJ — family-owned since 1977 and holding New Jersey Electrical Contractor License #17130. We work Union City's dense two- and three-family blocks off Bergenline and Summit Avenue, handling meter-stack and service separations, panel upgrades and commercial fit-outs, with every permit pulled through the Union City Construction Code Office.

Bergenline AvenueSummit AvenueCentral AvenueWest Street / the Palisades edge
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What Union City Calls Us For

The three jobs we do most in Union 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 Union City homeowners and landlords call about.

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Multi-family panel & service upgrades
Meter-stack work, service separations, and building-wide upgrades for two-, three- and four-family properties.
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Commercial tenant fit-outs
Ground-floor retail and restaurant electrical along Bergenline and Central Avenue, including landlord code corrections.
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Code corrections & rewiring
Violations flagged at inspection, aging branch wiring, GFCI/AFCI updates, and full unit rewires.
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Local Housing Stock

What Union City homes are actually wired like

Union City is one of the most densely built municipalities in the United States, and the electrical work reflects it. The housing is overwhelmingly attached two-, three- and four-family buildings from the early 1900s through the 1950s, with ground-floor retail along Bergenline Avenue and residential above. That means almost no job here is just "the panel" — it is a meter stack, a house meter for common areas, a main disconnect, and several units' worth of service to account for before anything gets touched. Undersized shared service, code violations carried forward from a landlord's earlier work, and 60-amp or 100-amp panels feeding units that now run AC and in-unit laundry are the recurring themes. Access is tight, service entrances are often in a shared basement or an alley, and the permit and inspection process cares about all of it.

nearly 50 years of this exact housing stock is why we can quote Union City work accurately from photos instead of guessing on site. See the Hudson County overview for how the county compares town to town.

Permits & Timeline

Union City Construction Code Office, 3715 Palisade Avenue

Electrical work in Union City is permitted through the Construction Code Office under the NJ Uniform Construction Code, and approval typically takes 5–10 business days. Fees for typical residential work run $150–$300 and are included in our quoted price. We pull the permit, file the PSE&G application, schedule the disconnect, do the work, and meet the inspector for sign-off — you never file anything yourself.

Utility Coordination

PSE&G in Union City

Union City is PSE&G territory. Any service change means the utility drops power to swap the meter and service, and current scheduling runs 2–4 weeks after the permit is issued. For a single-unit upgrade your power is out only a few hours on one day. Multi-family buildings that need a new or expanded meter bank take an extra 1–2 weeks for PSE&G to set the equipment.

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More Union City electrical detail

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Common Questions

Electrician FAQs — Union City, NJ

How much does an electrician cost in Union City?
Small defined jobs run about $150–$400, and a diagnostic service call is $150–$250, credited toward the repair. A single-unit 100A-to-200A service upgrade is $3,500–$4,800 with the Union City permit included, and a fuse box replacement lands in the same range. Multi-family and multi-meter stack work is quoted per unit on site, because the scope depends entirely on the existing metering. Every price is confirmed in writing before work begins.
How do panel upgrades work in a Union City two- or three-family?
The question is never just which panel — it is which meter, and whose service. Each unit typically has its own meter and panel with a house meter for common areas, and upgrading one unit can involve the shared meter stack and the building's main disconnect. We map the entire service before quoting, so the scope covers what actually has to change, every unit stays code-compliant, and there is no mid-job discovery that the building service cannot carry the new load.
How long does a Union City electrical permit take?
The Union City Construction Code Office typically approves an electrical permit in 5–10 business days under the NJ Uniform Construction Code. Fees run $150–$300 and are included in our price. Add PSE&G's 2–4 week disconnect and reconnect scheduling on top, and a straightforward service upgrade runs about 4–6 weeks from signed estimate to inspected sign-off — a little longer if a new meter bank has to be set.
Do you do commercial electrical work on Bergenline Avenue?
Yes. The retail-below, residential-above pattern along Bergenline and Central Avenue is one of our regular Union City jobs — tenant fit-outs for restaurants, salons and shops, dedicated circuits for new equipment, lighting retrofits, and separating a commercial tenant's service from the residential units above. We pull the permit, coordinate with the landlord and the tenant, and provide the certificate of insurance the lease usually requires.
I got a code violation notice from a Union City inspection. Can you fix it?
Yes, and it is worth doing properly rather than patching the specific line item. Bring us the notice and we will price the corrections it names, but we will also tell you if the underlying service is what caused the finding — which in Union City's older multi-families it often is. We pull the permit, do the corrections, meet the inspector for re-inspection, and hand you the signed-off record for your file.
Who Wrote This
Michael Malfettone, Licensed Master Electrician

Third-generation owner of Malfettone Electric, family-owned in Jersey City since 1977. Michael has personally run panel upgrades, rewires and service changes across Union 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 Union City jobs.

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