Open Thread Wednesday

Question: where can I have keys made in the nabe? I’m in the north Heights, so preferably nearby.

Thanks!

Not so close, but not very remote: I had a successful cut at Bruno’s Hardware on Court St. across from Barnes and Noble.

Never mind–just called them and they do. Thanks anyway for your help!

Ok, have no clue what you’re talking about. I read the comments here about once or twice a month – and have commented twice in the last 5 years.

It turns out I have three photos that show these, but if I post them here, the ever-vigilant Theresa will delete them because I don’t know where I swiped them off the Internet from. Perhaps you could contact me via Claude Scales?

Here’s one of them: catch it before it’s gone!

The Russian guy in the St. George Arcade also does this, I believe.

Be VERY careful where you have keys made. Make SURE first your keys are being made on a manual not computerized/automatic system. Any kind of computerized system can KEEP your key shape code in memory!! Anyone can make a copy after you leave the store. And you’ll notice a LOT of locksmith/key making areas have cameras documenting who’s keys are being made. Also, even with manual key making operations, beware the oops I broke, twisted, bent this key…I’ll make a fresh one for you, scam. Unless you demand the “ruined” key, you’re leaving a easily unmangled copy of your key behind!!! And, if you get a medico or other kind of more complex key made, make SURE that the darling making the key does not retain any kind of notation of the, say height and angle of each stage of the medico key!

Think all this is not true? Well then just ask the key maker for the notation slip he made notes on or the ruined key.

First you often get the ” well, I’ll have to charge you for it” response. (say, that’s fine, walk out with it and tell all your friends and post on a lot of places your experience with the creep) Or you’ll get the ‘I’m a professional, do you think I’d risk my license?’ line. Ignore it and protect your family…
Best thing to do is to duplicate keys as FAR from your house as possible.
As thousands of, ‘he somehow had a key/there’s no sign of forced entry”
incidents in this city show…

If I mention that I want to buy cat food, Jeffrey, will you provide a thousand words on sourcing, sustainability, possibility of contamination, potentially poisonous label dyes, Dented Can Syndrome, radioactive auras, and etc.?

Do you not see–but I suppose you can’t–that although it’s usually wise to take precautions, it’s paranoiac to jump immediately to dire scenarios of criminality?

As it happens, I wanted to make a copy of a key for a Manhattan friends’s apartment. In any case, one shouldn’t live in permanent fear. In my option, you need to moderate.

Wow that’s some profound paranoid phycosis you got going on there Jefferey. I implore you, please get a checkup at Creedmoor.

To be clear, raising your hand at a public hearing and getting picked to speak is not the same as a “featured and guest speaker”

Thank you kindly, neighboronhicks. But I have no art–I just do what I can.

Just so you know that got an audible guffaw out of me. All the other playground parents must have thought I was touched.

AEB, I’m only telling what my direct experience is, you never want make it easy. Just talk to some seasoned Detectives in areas like the UES or and, for that matter les and you’d see how many entries are made with copies of keys left unguarded. Think this is out of it or somehow strange to bring up? Well, anyone who thinks basic key security is joke really is the April Fool!!

Is that place still there?
Last time I got keys made I went to the hardware store on Montague.

Thanks, Banet.