Building security in New York City.
Building security in NYC, on this page, means an officer assigned to a Manhattan building: the lobby, the service entrance, the loading dock, the garage, or the door that is locked after hours. Tristate Security Patrol covers all five boroughs. This write-up is for Manhattan addresses because that is where the building-security search usually points, at towers and lobbies rather than a house on a side street.
The company address is 5314 16th Avenue, Suite 238, Brooklyn, NY 11204. Call 347-991-0121 with the building’s cross streets, the hours, and which entrance the officer is responsible for. A monthly patrol plan that drives past a property is a different service.
For most standard posts, uniformed officers are scheduled within 24–48 hours. Emergency coverage is coordinated through 24/7 dispatch.
The doors a Manhattan building actually has.
A Manhattan building is rarely one door. Residents and office tenants use the lobby. Contractors and trash use the service entrance. Freight uses the dock on a schedule the super already knows. Cars use a ramp that can sit on the side street. Building security fails when the post orders only mention the lobby and the problem is at the ramp.
Say which of those doors you want covered, and whether the officer is checking credentials, watching a camera the building already owns, or walking a floor on a set interval. The company does not install the building’s access-control system. It staffs the post the manager describes.
Lobby desk
Visitors, deliveries, and a log. The building provides the list of who is allowed through.
Service entrance
Vendors and contractors, separate from the tenant door.
Loading dock
Freight hours, not a 24-hour lobby shift unless you order one.
Garage and ramp
Vehicles in and out, with the house rules for who can park.
After-hours
Lockup and a defined interior or exterior round when the building is closed.
Fire watch, if the system is down
Not included in a lobby post. An impaired system is an FDNY fire-guard assignment.
NYC building security, planned from the Manhattan address.
Midtown office lobbies, downtown mixed-use buildings, and uptown residential buildings do not share a staffing sheet. A Class A lobby during the business day is a different headcount from a residential building overnight. This page does not name a client building and does not claim a standing post in a particular neighborhood.
If the building is in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, or Staten Island, it is still New York City and still in coverage. Use this page to see how a building post is scoped, then give the real borough on the call. The Manhattan URL is here because the phrase people type is building security in NYC and the buildings they describe are often Manhattan lobbies.
Scheduling for most standard posts is 24–48 hours. A building that needs someone tonight uses 24/7 dispatch. Travel from Brooklyn is not published as a minute guarantee.
A security officer is not the building’s fire guard unless the certificate matches.
New York security guards register with the Department of State. That registration lets the officer work as a security guard. It does not, by itself, make the officer an FDNY fire guard. If a required sprinkler, standpipe, or alarm is out of service, NYC Fire Code section 901.7.2.2 applies in Manhattan the same way it applies in the other boroughs. After the initial four-hour window, and immediately when the affected area is over 50,000 square feet, the watch is an F-01 fire guard, patrolling at least hourly.
Hot work in the building is a second conversation. Torch operations at the locations FDNY lists need an F-60 fire guard, and Chapter 26 keeps a watch during the work and for at least 30 minutes after. A lobby officer watching the front door is not that post.
Armed building posts add the New York pistol license and the armed-guard course. Many Manhattan lobbies are unarmed. The assessment should say why a firearm is required before the quote assumes one.
- NY Department of State: how a person becomes a registered security guard
- NY Division of Criminal Justice Services: security guard training oversight
- NY Department of State: 8-hour, 16-hour, and annual security guard training
- NYC Fire Code § 901.7.2.2, fire guards when a standpipe, sprinkler, or fire alarm is out of service
- FDNY Certificate of Fitness F-01, Citywide Fire Guard for Impairment
- FDNY Certificate of Fitness F-60, Fire Guard for Torch Operations
- NYC Fire Code Chapter 26 (FDNY PDF): hot-work fire watch, including 30 minutes after the work
Licensed officers, documented work.
Founded in 2021. No Manhattan office is published. Post orders are written for the building address you provide.
The site does not publish a building-security hourly rate, a client list, or a count of Manhattan lobbies staffed. Patrol memberships that include GPS-verified checks use the client portal. A lobby post is documented against the log the post orders require.
What is published, and what is quoted.
Building security in a Manhattan property is quoted from the doors, the hours, and the number of officers. Residential patrol from $159 a month and commercial patrol from $399 a month remain the published prices for mobile checks. Use those figures only if a car checking the property is what you want. A person in the lobby is a quote.
Answers, in plain language.
Do you provide building security in NYC?
Yes. This page is the Manhattan version: lobbies, service doors, docks, and garages. Call 347-991-0121 with the address. Other boroughs are covered too; name the borough.
Is building security the same as a patrol plan?
No. Patrol plans are mobile checks with published monthly prices. Building security is an officer assigned to the building and is quoted.
Can the lobby officer also be the fire guard?
Only if that person holds the FDNY certificate the condition requires and the post orders make the fire watch the assignment. A security guard registration is not F-01 or F-60.
How much is building security in Manhattan?
Quoted per post. No hourly building-security rate is published on this site.
Do you have an office in the building’s neighborhood?
No. The published address is 5314 16th Avenue, Suite 238, Brooklyn, NY 11204.
Related pages
Private security and the borough overview.
All five boroughs.
Offices and corporate sites.
Homes and residential buildings.
When the building’s system is impaired.
F-01, F-60, and the hourly round.
If you wanted a mobile check instead.
347-991-0121.
Tristate Security Patrol
5314 16th Avenue, Suite 238, Brooklyn, NY 11204
Info@tristatesecuritypatrol.com
24/7 dispatch. This is the business address published for Tristate Security Patrol. It is not described here as a walk-in lobby.