Big buildings, small rooms
Apartment buildings line Commonwealth Avenue, triple-deckers and two-families fill the side streets, and single-family homes cluster around Oak Square. Larger buildings come with their own collection of locks: mailboxes, laundry rooms, storage cages, bike rooms.
What 02135 calls about
- Rekeying apartments and condos
- Mailbox and storage room locks in larger buildings
- Lock upgrades for single-family homes near Oak Square
- Student lockouts around Cleveland Circle
Shared rooms, forgotten keys
Building managers: rekey laundry and storage room locks whenever the superintendent or cleaning contractor changes. These rooms are easy to overlook, but over the years a remarkable number of keys to them end up in circulation.
Homes near Oak Square
The quieter single-family streets have side doors and garages like any suburb. A deadbolt on each outside door, keyed alike, is the practical baseline.
Getting there
Commonwealth Avenue is busy. Share the cross street and the building entrance.
Families near Brighton Center
Away from Commonwealth Avenue, quieter streets around Brighton Center and toward Chestnut Hill hold single-family homes and two-families. Owners there ask about the same things as any homeowner: deadbolts on every exterior door, a lock on the garage, and keys that match. With children at school and parents at work, a keypad on the side door often makes life simpler than handing out keys. Students and young professionals in the bigger buildings, meanwhile, should keep a spare with a friend nearby rather than hiding one in the lobby. Lost a key on the Green Line? Treat it as lost for good and ask about rekeying. If your building uses a call box, keep its number handy so the locksmith can reach the door quickly.