Residential, commercial, and retail stores. Same-day service, 24/7 emergency response, and demand power across every borough of New York and across New Jersey. In-house low voltage and fire alarm teams. Every size job, one team.
Three quick paths. Pick the one that fits and we will route you to the right person.
Call our 24/7 line and a licensed electrician will be on the way. We answer the phone ourselves, day or night.
Same crew every visit. Same point of contact. We run electrical maintenance for property managers, condo boards, co-op boards, and commercial owners.
Tenant fit-out. Ground-up high-rise. Full home renovation. Hospitality. Institutional. We have delivered for Gilbane, Lendlease, Turner, and Two Trees, and we still take residential and small commercial work.
ESE is the crew on the ground inside these stores. ESE’s brand relationship is held by our facilities management partners.
We are an authorized Con Edison and PSEG electrical firm. Most NYC contractors stitch a vault job together across three companies. ESE designs, expedites, rigs, installs, and as-builds it under one schedule, one PM, one accountable party. The deepest utility capability in the market we serve.
Feasibility, load studies, distribution engineering, vault layout, structural coordination with the GC and the architect. Available as a standalone consulting engagement.
We hold the utility relationship from kickoff to cutover. Filings, approvals, customer notifications, inspections.
Transformer and switchgear rigging by our own crew, not subbed out. Then the civil and electrical scope: switchgear, metering, distribution, duct bank, pulls, terminations, energization.
Signed as-built drawings produced in house by the BIM team that designed the vault. Record matches field.
“Most of our market sends ConEd jobs to specialty subs and waits while paperwork bounces between three companies. We hold the whole scope.”
Same-day service calls. 24/7 emergencies. Property maintenance contracts. We answer the phone ourselves and we send a real licensed electrician, not a sales rep.
One team, one phone number,
one truck on the way.
For the full breakdown of what the service department covers (same-day calls, inspections, property contracts, panel work, DOB and ConEd correction, low voltage), see the full catalog below or the dedicated service calls page.
High-rise towers, institutional buildings, hospitality renovations, utility vaults, and a steady stream of smaller residential and commercial work that keeps buildings running.
Cat. No. ONE-MANHATTAN-SQUARE
Lendlease
Electrical, fire alarm, and low-voltage work for an 80-story high-end residential tower with 811 luxury units and retail on the lower floors. A flagship high-rise scope for the ESE team.
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Cat. No. 118-FULTON
Gilbane Building Company
Electrical, fire alarm, and low-voltage scope for a 66-story residential tower with 483 units and retail at the base. Delivered for Gilbane Building Company in one of Manhattan's tightest high-rise conditions.
General Contractor
Cat. No. 520-WEST-28TH
Related Construction
Electrical, fire alarm, and low-voltage work for an 11-story high-end residential building with 39 luxury units and retail space on the lower floors.
General ContractorArchitect of Record
Cat. No. DOCK-72
Gilbane
Electrical, fire alarm, and low-voltage work for a 16-story office building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, coordinated with a major commercial construction team.
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Cat. No. DOMINO-REFINERY
Two Trees Management
Electrical scope for the Domino Refinery commercial building, plus specialized vault work on the same campus. ESE's work included high-value coordination on one of Brooklyn's most visible redevelopment sites.
Client11 service lines, with a single point of contact from estimate through final inspection. Tap any line to read its dedicated page.
Headquartered in Brooklyn, with a project office in Pompano Beach, Florida. Service calls and maintenance run from New York and New Jersey. Major project work extends to South Florida.
Empire State Electrical is rooted in New York City. From our Brooklyn headquarters, we serve all five boroughs including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, as well as Long Island. Over the past decade we’ve completed commercial build-outs in Midtown high-rises, Con Edison vault installations beneath Manhattan streets, property management contracts across Brooklyn and Queens, and NYCHA electrical work in the Bronx.
Our reputation has grown through referrals, and today we’re proud to be one of the go-to electrical contractors for general contractors, property managers, and building owners across the New York City metro area.
Our work regularly takes us across the Hudson. We serve commercial and residential clients throughout Northern New Jersey, from Jersey City and Hoboken to Newark and Fort Lee. Whether it’s a tenant fit-out in Hudson County or emergency electrical service in Essex County, our licensed team brings the same reliability and responsiveness that built our reputation in New York.
We are an authorized PSEG firm and we coordinate utility shutdowns, meter pulls, and reconnection ourselves. Our New Jersey crews run service calls, maintenance contracts, and 24/7 emergencies across Hudson, Essex, Bergen, and Union counties, and we cross over for project work across the rest of the state.
Empire State Electrical operates a project office in Pompano Beach, Florida. Florida is project-only: ground-up commercial, mid-rise to high-rise, hospitality, and major build-outs across Miami-Dade and Broward County, from Brickell high-rises to Fort Lauderdale Beach developments.
Service calls, maintenance contracts, and same-day or emergency electrical work are handled exclusively by our New York and New Jersey crews. In Florida we focus on the project side, with the same licensed expertise and project management discipline that drives our New York operations.
“We grew this company from a single apprentice's tool belt into a team of 100+ electricians across three states. The bar never changed: do the job right, be where you said you'd be, and stand behind the work.”
· Lawrence Rafalovich, Founder
Empire State Electrical was founded in 2014 after nearly a decade of hands-on field work and a turn as Director of Safety and Health at the MTA. What started as small renovations and service calls in Brooklyn grew into a full-service firm of over 100 tradespeople and 28 management staff delivering projects across New York, New Jersey, and South Florida. We still answer the phone ourselves, and we still show up when we said we would.
The people who answer the phone, estimate the work, manage the field, and close the loop.
20 principals and staff
Lawrence Rafalovich
Founder & President
Michael Ripa
Vice President
Kerwin Vasquez
Service & Procurement
Meylis Bet
Associate Project Manager
Julian Cupi
BIM Coordinator
Rici Edwards
Affordable Housing Liaison
Maria Borja
Con Ed Specialist
Tom DiSantis
NYCHA Liaison
Inna Yakobson
Director of Estimating
Aiuna Dominova
Estimator
Valentin Cheremkin
Junior Estimator
Abid Jamadar
Junior Estimator
Eddie Bergman
Project Engineer
Khemraj Singh
Senior Supervisor
Evgeny Volodko
Field Supervisor
Lenny Gallardo
Fire Alarm Supervisor
Daisy Lopez
Finance Manager
Sandra Wyllie
Finance Manager
Jerry Turner
Purchasing Manager
Juan Navarrete
Client Relations
Empire State Electrical is a fully licensed, bonded, and insured electrical contractor authorized to work across New York, New Jersey, and Florida. We are a Con Edison and National Grid authorized electrical firm. We maintain all required NYC Department of Buildings certifications and carry comprehensive general liability and workers’ compensation insurance. Open shop. Service calls and maintenance contracts run out of our New York and New Jersey crews; Florida is project work only. Every project is backed by proper licensing and full coverage.
We reply within one business day. For emergencies, call (917) 620-3289 anytime, day or night.
